Drafter
Clerk 07/03/2017
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A MOTION approving a report in compliance with the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 100, Proviso P1, on implementation and funding strategies for on-site sewage system program operation and maintenance activities by the environmental health services division of Public Health - Seattle & King County.
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WHEREAS, the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 100, Proviso P1, requires the executive to transmit a plan for funding and implementing strategies to expand the environmental health services division of Public Health - Seattle & King County's on-site sewage, or OSS, program's operation and maintenance program, and
WHEREAS, the report includes the following:
1. Review of on-site sewage system oversight activities and funding in comparable jurisdictions;
2. Review of the feasibility and cost to partner with an independent third party to proivde loans or other financial supports to homeowners for on-site sewage maintenance and repair; and
3. Review of the feasibility and sustainability of funding strategies to support ongoing on-site sewage program activities focused on preventing and addressing on-site sewage failure, and
WHEREAS, the executive is further required to submit a motion that approves the report;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The report on implementation and funding strategies for on-site sewage system program operation and maintenance activities by the environmental health services division of Public Health - Seattle & King County, which is Attachment A to this motion,
in compliance with the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409 Section 100, Proviso P1, is hereby approved.