Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN SNOHOMISH COUNTY AND THE TULALIP FOUNDATION CONCERNING ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY WITH CONSERVATION FUTURES FUNDS
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DEPARTMENT: CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES
ORIGINATOR: PEJ MORGAN
EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION: Approved
PURPOSE: This is an Agreement between the County and the Tulalip Foundation as a Conservation Futures Funding Grant Awardee regarding the acquisition of the property for conservation purposes, that requires County's execution.
BACKGROUND: The County manages a Conservation Futures funding program pursuant to RCW 84.34.200 et seq. and chapter 4.14 Snohomish County Code. Cities and towns located in Snohomish County, nonprofit historic preservation corporations, and nonprofit nature conservancy corporations or associations as such are described in RCW 84.34.210 are eligible to apply to the County for resources to fund acquisition of interests or rights in real property located within Snohomish County that meet the conservation criteria described in RCW 84.34.210 et seq. The Foundation applied for resources from the Snohomish County Conservation Futures Property Tax Fund (the "Fund") to acquire approximately 33.4 acres of fee simple interest (the "Northern Property") and approximately 3.4 acres of a conservation easement (the "Easement Property") located in unincorporated Snohomish County, referred to as Kellogg Marsh Valley Cooperative Acquisition, and more particularly described in Section 1 below (the "Property"). On August 30, 2023, the Conservation Futures Program Advisory Board (the "Board") at its regularly scheduled meeting listened to the Foundation's presentation, reviewed the project proposal, and voted to recommend project funding through the Fund in the amount of One Million Seventy-Two Thousand Dollars ($1,072,000.00) to assist with purchase of the Property. On December 13, 2023, the Snohomish County Council, by Motion No. 23-409, allocated funding in t...
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