Property acquired by Kitsap County for public works projects will be appraised by a qualified fee appraiser with appropriate appraisal review before initiation of negotiations with the owner.
(Res. 580-1979 B(1), 1979)
Kitsap Company will establish just compensation from the appraiser’s estimate of value before negotiating with any owner. Any amounts paid over just compensation for the property will be an administrative settlement and will be so documented in the acquisition file as to the justification used in arriving at the amount of the settlement. In an administrative or stipulated settlement, however, payment will not be made by the person who determined the settlement.
(Res. 580-1979 B(3), 1979)
During the appraisal process, Kitsap County will not consider any factors of the project that would influence the valuation of the property except physical deterioration wherever appropriate.
(Res. 580-1979 B(4), 1979)
Kitsap County will give to the owner at the initiation of negotiation a written statement known as the “fair offer letter.” That statement will be the amount of just compensation based on a review and analysis of an appraisal made by a qualified appraiser with a summary thereof, showing the basis for just compensation. Included in the “fair offer letter” will be identification of the real property to be acquired, including the estate or interest being acquired. There will be, when appropriate, the identification of the improvements and fixtures considered to be part of the real property to be acquired. The “fair offer letter” will show that portion of the just compensation considered the amount of damages to the remaining property. At the initiation of negotiation with the owner, Kitsap County will give to the owner an acquisition brochure furnished by the Washington State Department of Transportation.
(Res. 580-1979 B(7), 1979)
Kitsap County will not require the owner or tenant to surrender possession of the property before ninety days after the agreed purchase price has been paid or the approved amount of compensation has been paid into court. The ninety-day notice may be reduced only in the event the property being acquired is unimproved, contains no personal property and is not being utilized by the owner or tenant.
(Res. 580-1979 B(8), 1979)
Every reasonable effort will be made to acquire expeditiously real property by negotiations without exercising the right of eminent domain. No action will be taken to advance condemnation, defer negotiations or condemnation or take any other action coercive in nature in order to compel an agreement on the price to be paid for the property.
(Res. 580-1979 B(11), 1979)
When any interest in real property is acquired, at least an equal interest will be acquired in all buildings, structures, or other improvements located upon the real property so acquired and which is required to be removed from such real property or which will be adversely affected by the use to which such real property will be put.
(Res. 580-1979 B(12), 1979)
Kitsap County will comply with RCW 8.26.200 and will pay direct or reimburse the owner for expenses necessarily incurred in the acquisition for:
(1) 
Recording fees, transfer taxes, and similar expenses incidental to conveying such real property to the acquiring county;
(2) 
Penalty costs for full or partial prepayment of any preexisting recorded mortgage entered into in good faith encumbering such real property;
(3) 
The pro rata portion of real property taxes paid which are allocable to a period subsequent to the date of vesting title in Kitsap County, or the effective date of possession of such real property by Kitsap County, whichever is the earlier.
(Res. 580-1979 B(13), 1979)
If rodent control should become necessary in the project, Kitsap County will make provisions to maintain control or eradicate the rodents.
(Res. 580-1979 B(15), 1979)