AFTER RECORDING RETURN TO:

Lewis County Public Works Dept.

2025 NE Kresky Ave

Chehalis, WA. 98532

Tax Parcel Number: N/A, Road Right of Way, Section 16 and 21, Township 12 North, Range 3East, W.M.

IN THE MATTER OF:}ORDER OF VACATION

The proposed vacation of a portion of} No. 18-001

Workman Road Extension }

In the matter of the vacation of a portion of the Workman Road Extension, Lewis County, Washington, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) finds as follows:

FIRST: That on the July 10, 2017, in regular session, the BOCC duly passed Resolution 17-202 entered upon their minutes declaring their intention to proceed to determine whether or notthat certainroad in Lewis County named and designated as a portion of the Workman Road Extensionshould be vacated and abandoned, and ordered and directed the County Engineer to make an examination of the road.

SECOND: the portion of the Workman Road Extension does not abut a body of water.

THIRD: That on February 15, 2018, the County Road Engineer filed his report in writing with the BOCC setting forth all things required by law to be set forth in the engineers report.

FOURTH: That the BOCC by order duly passed on February 26, 2018, fixed the 26th day of March, 2018 at or after the hour of 10:00 A.M., in the Commissioners Hearing Room on the 2nd Floor of the Historic Courthouse, Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington, as the time and place for the hearing on the report of the County Engineer, and that the BOCCduly caused notice thereof to be published and posted as required by law, and the BOCC now finds there to have been compliance with all legal requirements.

FIFTH: And that on March26, 2017, the vacation of a portion of the Workman Road Extension came regularly on for hearing, and due proof having been made to the satisfaction of the BOCC by affidavit of the publication and posting of the notices of hearing, and the BOCC having considered the engineers report and all evidence relative to such vacation, now here finds this portion of Workman Road Extension isnot to be a public necessity.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED by the BOCC that all provisions of RCW 36.87and LCC 12.15 have been met and the portion of the Workman Road Extensionbe and is hereby vacated as follows:

All that part of Workman Road Extension in the Northeast Quarter of Northwest Quarter (NE1/4 NW1/4) of Section 21, Township 12 North, Range 3East, W.M., and in the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE1/4 SW1/4) of Section 16, Township 12 North, Range 3 East, W.M., beginning at a point 115 feet West of the Quarter Corner between said Sections 16 and 21, thence West to the terminus of the Workman Road Extension.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 26th day of March, 2018.

APPROVED AS TO FORM: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Jonathan L. Meyer, Prosecuting Attorney LEWIS COUNTY, WASHINGTON

______By: Civil Deputy Edna J. Fund, Chair

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ATTEST: Robert C. Jackson, Vice Chair

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Rieva Lester, Clerk of the Lewis County Gary Stamper, Member

Board of County Commissioners