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Clerk 09/18/2017

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A MOTION accepting the Best Starts for Kids Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan.

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                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 18088 providing for the submission of the best starts for kids levy to the qualified electors of King County was adopted by the metropolitan King County council on July 20, 2015, and signed by the executive on July 23, 2015, and

                     WHEREAS, King County voters approved King County Proposition No. 1 on November 3, 2015, authorizing a six-year property tax levy lid lift for the purpose of funding prevention and early intervention strategies to improve the health and well-being of children, youth and their communities, and

                     WHEREAS, on June 1, 20l6, in accordance with Ordinance 18088, the executive transmitted to the council for review and approval an implementation plan that identified the strategies to be funded and outcomes to be achieved with the use of levy proceeds described in Ordinance 18088, Section 5.C., and

                     WHEREAS, on September 19, 2016, the council adopted Ordinance 18373 which  approved the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan, and Ordinance 18373 was signed by the executive on September 27, 2016, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 18373 and the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan require the executive to develop and transmit by July 1, 2017, a Best Starts for Kids Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan that specifies performance measures and qualitative methods and includes evaluation and performance measurement information for the communities of opportunity initiative;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     The Best Starts for Kids Evaluation and Performance Measurement Plan, Attachment A to this motion, is hereby accepted.