Teanaway "bindergate" prompts Kittitas County to post content of missing binders

Due to public demand arising from “bindergate,” Kittitas County has posted the content of the missing binders on its website, showing AFLC’s  2007 applications to segregate the AFLC land into 20-, 40-, 80-acre lots etc. See

http://www.co.kittitas.wa.us/cds/teanaway.asp

For background on this topic, see our previous post. 

On November 3, 2009, the Board of County Commissioners temporarily suspended the subarea planning process to complete an investigation into two binders that were returned from American Forest Land Company (AFLC). While the investigation has not been completed, the information contained in the binders is now available for public review.

AFLC Administrative Segregation Application Binders:

• Binder 1 (original) 16001k
• Binder 2 (original) 14574k
• Binder 3 (original) 11620k
• Binder 1 (copied) 17751k
• Binder 2 (copied) 14574k
• Binder 3 (copied) 11620k
• Front and back cover of Binder 1 (original) 171k
• Map 698k

The next public meetings scheduled for December 16, 2009 is CANCELED.

Teanaway sub-area plans on hold

The grass in a meadow along Teanaway Road east of Cle Elum waves in the afternoon breeze in a Daily Record file photo. Brian Myrick / Daily Record

ELLENSBURG — An Ellensburg Police Department investigation into the disappearance of public documents has prompted the Kittitas County Board of Commissioners to temporarily suspend the Teanaway sub-area planning process.

The commissioners — Alan Crankovich, Mark McClain and Paul Jewell — announced the suspension of the sub-area planning process Tuesday.

“The commissioners are just interested in maintaining an open, transparent process and that’s why we suspended it,” said Jewell, who has attended all of the sub-area planning process meetings. “The county is very much interested in maintaining the transparency and integrity of the process, and we want to make sure it’s not undermined. We need time to figure out what’s going on here and to determine if and when we can move forward.”

[Full article: http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/articles/2009/11/05/news/doc4af32b966f545091100463.txt]

From: Ellensburg Daily Record - Thursday, November 5, 2009 12:23 PM PST