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Home My WebLink Aboutres2016-024WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA BILL NO. 2016 -223 CLEARANCES Initial Date Date Received in Council Office Agenda Date Assigned to: Originator JNT 62212016 (� (� 2 8 D w LC L ,C July 12, 2016 Finance /Council Division Head: �" w / /►"' ?- J JUL 0 5 2016 WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL Dept. Head: ��l Prosecutor Prosecuto 0�/�9,�1� Purchasing /Budget: bbA 622/ Executive: , SS TITLE OF ENT: Lower Mainstem Habitat Assessment 16 -2048 Salmon Recovery Funding Board Grant Application Authorization Resolution ATTACHMENTS. Authorizing Resolution SEPA review required? ( ) Yes (X ) NO Should Clerk schedule a hearing? _ ( ) Yes (X ) NO SEPA review completed? ( ) Yes ( ) NO Requested Date: SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE: (If this item is an ordinance or requires a public hearing, you must provide the language for use in the required public notice. Be specific and cite RCW or WCC as appropriate. Be clear in explaining the intent of the action.) A resolution by the Whatcom County Council that authorizes Public Works to submit a grant application and, if successful, for the County Executive to enter into a grant agreement with the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office for funding through the Salmon Recovery Funding Board. The grant will support the Lower Mainstem Habitat Assessment project. Total estimated project cost is $337,000 with a grant request of $237,000 and $100,000 in match from a separate grant source. COMMITTEE ACTION. COUNCIL ACTION.• 7/12/2016: Forwarded to Council for approval 7/12/2016: Approved 7 -0, Resolution 2016 -024 Related County Contract #: Related File Numbers: Ordinance or Resolution Number. Res. 2016 -024 Please Note: Once adopted and signed, ordinances and resolutions are available for viewing and printing on the County's website at. www.co.whatcom.wa.us /council. PROPOSED BY: PUBLIC WORKS INTRODUCED: JULY 12, 2016 RESOLUTION NO. 2016 -024 (A resolution of the Whatcom County Council) AUTHORIZATION FOR APPLICATION TO THE SALMON RECOVERY FUNDING BOARD FOR A LOWER MAINSTEM HABITAT ASSESSMENT (RCO Project No. 16 -2048) WHEREAS, the Whatcom County Council seeks funding to pay for a Habitat Assessment on the Lower Mainstem Nooksack River in preparation for updating the Comprehensive Flood Hazard Management Plan; and WHEREAS, this resolution authorizes submitting an application for grant funding assistance for a salmon recovery project to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board as provided in RCW 77.85, WAC 420 and other applicable authorities; and WHEREAS, under the provisions of the Salmon Recovery Act, state grant assistance is requested to aid in financing the cost of a planning project; and WHEREAS, the Whatcom County Council considers it in the best public interest to complete the project described in the application. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Whatcom County Council that: 1. Jon Hutchings, Whatcom County Public Works Director- is authorized to make formal application to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board for grant assistance. Our organization has reviewed the sample project agreement on the Recreation and Conservation Office's Web site at: www.rco.wa,gov/document5imanuals&forms/SampleProjAgree and authorizes Jack Louws, Whatcom County Executive to enter into such a project agreement, if funding is awarded. We understand and acknowledge that the project agreement will contain the indemnification (applicable to any sponsor) and waiver of sovereign immunity (applicable to Tribes) and other terms and conditions that are contained in the sample project agreement. The sample project agreement may be revised periodically by the Recreation and Conservation Office. Our organization recognizes that such changes might occur prior to our authorized representative signing the actual project agreement, and we accept the responsibility and the presumption that our authorized representative shall have conferred with us as to any such changes before he /she executes the project agreement on behalf of our organization and so executes with our authorization. 3. Any grant assistance received will be used for only direct eligible and allowable costs that are reasonable and necessary to implement the project(s) referenced above. 4. The matching share of project funds are intended to be derived from a NC]AA grant for which The Eature Conservancy has applied but has not yet received confirmation of grant award. The grant once awarded, meets the requirements of WAC 420 -12 -040. In addition, our organization understands it is responsible for supporting all non -cash commitments to this project should they not materialize. 5. We acknowledge that if the Salmon Recovery Fund Board approves grant assistance for the project(s), the Recreation and Conservation Office will pay us on only a reimbursement basis, except for a specially approved advance payment. We understand reimbursement basis means that we will only request payment from the Recreation and Conservation Office after we incur eligible and allowable costs and pay them. The Recreation and Conservation Office may also determine an amount of retainage and hold that amount until the project is complete. The Recreation and Conservation Office may approve advance payments in limited circumstances, pursuant to WAC 420 -12 -060 and the policy outlined in Manual 8, Reimbursements. 6. This application authorization becomes part of a formal application to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board for grant assistance. 7. We provided appropriate opportunity for public comment on this application. 8. We certify that this application authorization was properly and lawfully adopted following the requirements of our organization and applicable laws and policies and that the person signing as authorized representative is duly authorized to do so. APPROVED this 11th: �di. %of Ju1x� 20316 ATTEST: — pF Dana Brown Uav* 'Il �c e`Coun,.6 Y w" �re��111111111�1�1i�`y, APPROVED AS TO FORM: Daniel Gibson, Chief Civil Deputy Prosecutor Washington State Attorney General's Office WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL i][011'1C+I61l11WI n, Crfalrman County Council Approved as to form __ '` —' March 18.2016 Assistant Attorney General Date