2024/11/13 Council Agenda Packet

3.Our organization has reviewed the sample RCO Grant Agreement on the Recreation and ConservationOffice’s WEB SITE at: https://rco.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SampleProjAgreement.pdf. We understand and acknowledge that if offered an agreement to sign in the future, it will contain anindemnification and legal venue stipulation and other terms and conditions substantially in the form contained in the sample Agreement and that such terms and conditions of any signed Agreement shall be legally binding on the sponsor if our representative/agent enters into an Agreement on our behalf. The Office reserves the right to revise the Agreement prior to execution. 4.Our organization acknowledges and warrants, after conferring with its legal counsel, that its authorizedrepresentative(s)/agent(s) have full legal authority to act and sign on behalf of the organization for their assigned role/document. 5.Grant assistance is contingent on a signed Agreement. Entering into any Agreement with the Office is purely voluntary on our part. 6.Our organization understands that grant policies and requirements vary depending on the grant program applied to, the grant program and source of funding in the Agreement, the characteristics of the project, and the characteristics of our organization. 7.Our organization further understands that prior to our authorized representative(s)/agent(s) executing any of the documents listed above, the RCO may make revisions to its sample Agreement and that such revisions could include the indemnification and the legal venue stipulation. Our organization accepts the legal obligation that we shall, prior to execution of the Agreement(s), confer with our authorizedrepresentative(s)/agent(s) as to any revisions to the project Agreement from that of the sample Agreement. We also acknowledge and accept that if our authorized representative(s)/agent(s) executesthe Agreement(s) with any such revisions, all terms and conditions of the executed Agreement shall beconclusively deemed to be executed with our authorization. 8.Any grant assistance received will be used for only direct eligible and allowable costs that arereasonable and necessary to implement the project(s) referenced above. 9.[for Recreation and Conservation Funding Board Grant Programs Only] If match is required for thegrant, we understand our organization must certify the availability of match at least one month before funding approval. In addition, our organization understands it is responsible for supporting all non-cashmatching share commitments to this project should they not materialize. 10.Our organization acknowledges that if it receives grant funds managed by the Office, the Office will pay us on only a reimbursement basis. We understand reimbursement basis means that we will only requestpayment from the Office after we incur grant eligible and allowable costs and pay them. The Office may also determine an amount of retainage and hold that amount until all project deliverables, grantreports, or other responsibilities are complete. 11.[for Acquisition Projects Only] Our organization acknowledges that any property acquired with grant assistance must be dedicated for the purposes of the grant in perpetuity unless otherwise agreed to inwriting by our organization and the Office. We agree to dedicate the property in a signed “Deed of Right” for fee acquisitions, or an “Assignment of Rights” for other than fee acquisitions (whichdocuments will be based upon the Office’s standard versions of those documents), to be recorded on the title of the property with the county auditor. Our organization acknowledges that any property