File #: 2017-0165    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 4/3/2017 In control: Government Accountability and Oversight Committee
On agenda: Final action: 2/1/2018
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE terminating the emergency waiver issued under the January 19, 2017 Executive Determination of Emergency and Waiver from Competitive Procurement Requirements for the North Creek Interceptor Sewer Improvement Project.
Sponsors: Kathy Lambert

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Clerk 03/30/2017

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AN ORDINANCE terminating the emergency waiver issued under the January 19, 2017 Executive Determination of Emergency and Waiver from Competitive Procurement Requirements for the North Creek Interceptor Sewer Improvement Project.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  On March 13, 2017, the council received notice that the executive had issued an emergency declaration related to a contract dispute on the North Creek Interceptor project.  That declaration was dated January 19, 2017.

2.  K.C.C. 2.93.080 requires that waivers for contracts that exceed $250,000 are to be forwarded to the clerk of the council within two business days.

3.  K.C.C 12.52.010 defines an emergency to refer to circumstances such as "fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, epidemic, riot or insurrection"; the notice received by the council did not refer to any fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, riot or insurrection.

4.  K.C.C. 2.93.080 provides that an emergency waiver of procurement requirements may be terminated by action by the Council by ordinance.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The Executive Determination of Emergency and Waiver from Competitive Procurement Requirements for the North Creek Interceptor Sewer Improvement Project, issued January 19, 2017, is hereby terminated in accordance with K.C.C. 2.93.080.