File #: 2025-0171    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: To Be Introduced
File created: 7/1/2025 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute interlocal agreements with school districts for continued collection of school impact fees.
Sponsors: Sarah Perry
Indexes: Executive, Impact Fees, Interlocal Agreement
Attachments: 1. A. Interlocal Agreement Template, 2. 2025-0171 transmittal letter, 3. 2025-0171 Fiscal Note, 4. Plain Language Summary-School Impact Fee ILA Ordinance, 5. 2025-0171 Legislative Review Form
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Clerk 06/09/2025

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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute interlocal agreements with school districts for continued collection of school impact fees.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  Chapter 36.70A RCW and chapter 82.02 RCW ("the act"), which authorizes the collection of impact fees on development activity to provide public school facilities to serve new development.

2.  The act requires that impact fees may only be collected for public facilities that are addressed by a capital facilities element of a comprehensive land use plan.

2.  King County has enacted Ordinances 9785 and 10162 for the purpose of implementing the act.

3.  The Washington state Legislature has amended the act's authority related to impact fees several times since its original enactment and King County has adopted an ordinance for the purpose of implementing the act's 2023 amendments in Chapter 337, Laws of Washington 2023.

4.  King County and the school districts that the county collects impact fees for entered into agreements for the collection, distribution, and expenditure of school impact fees in the early 1990s ("the original ILAs").

5.  King County and the school districts intend for these updated agreements ("the ILAs") to restate and replace the original ILAs in their entirety to implement changes as a result of Chapter 337, Laws of Washington 2023.

6.  Upon adoption of the school districts' capital facilities plans as a subelement of the capital facilities element of the King County Comprehensive Plan, the county will collect impact fees upon certain new residential developments on behalf of the districts as agreed to in the ILAs.

7.  King County and the school districts enter into the ILAs in accordance with the state Interlocal Cooperation Act, chapter 39.34 RCW, for the purposes of collection, distribution, and expenditure of the authorized impact fees.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The executive is hereby authorized to execute interlocal agreements

with school districts that King County collects impact fees, in substantially the form of the template in Attachment A to this ordinance.