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Clerk 10/13/2016

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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning; adopting the 2016 King County real property asset management plan in response  to the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 121, as amended by Ordinance 18110, Section 55, Proviso P1 and to K.C.C. 20.12.100; and amending Ordinance 10810, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.100.

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                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  Findings:

                     A.  K.C.C. 20.12.100 requires the county executive to submit updates to the real property asset management plan to the county council for approval every fourth year, beginning on March 1, 2016.

                     B.  Changed patterns of space use have resulted in opportunities to consolidate agencies, to move agencies to strategic locations and to better address the county's underutilized space in county facilities.

                     C.  The 2016 real property asset management plan highlights important changes underway in the county's real property portfolio and details the proposed near term moves.

                     D.  Information on opportunities, changes and near-term plans for the county's real estate portfolio should be subject to council review and approval on a more frequent basis than on the four-year comprehensive plan update cycle and need not be adopted with the comprehensive plan.

                     E.  The 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 121, as amended by Ordinance 18110, Section 55, Proviso P1, states that $720,000 of the appropriation for the capital improvement program shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a scoping report on the county's future operational and space needs in the downtown Seattle campus as a whole and updates the real property asset management plan as mandated by K.C.C. 20.12.100 and a motion that approves the report and the motion is passed by council.

                     F.  The executive transmitted Proposed Motion 2016-0158, which approves the scoping report on the county's future operational and space needs in the downtown Seattle campus.

                     G.  The 2016 real property asset management plan is submitted by the executive to fulfill the remaining proviso obligation.

                     SECTION 2.  Ordinance 10810, Section 1, and K.C.C. 20.12.100 are each hereby amended to read as follows:

                     The ((2013)) 2016 real property asset management plan, formerly called the county space plan, dated ((June 3, 2014)) March 1, 2016, and consisting of real property asset management policies, practices and strategies, including planning policies, locations of county agencies and implementation plans, ((updated 2012 work space survey results, short term space planning and)) planned moves and references ((legal authorities and)) to King County space standards, is adopted as a component of the capital facilities element of the Comprehensive Plan.  The real property asset management plan dated ((June 3, 2014)) March 1, 2016, shall ((govern development of all facility master plans, facility program plans and the capital improvement program and lease requests for space housing county agency operations)) guide facility planning processes, decisions and implementation.

                     The executive shall update the current and future space needs and implementation plans of the real property asset management plan and submit them to the council as amendments to the real property asset management plan by ((March)) September 1 of every fourth year, beginning on ((March)) September 1, ((2016)) 2019, ((as a part of Technical Appendix A and as a component to the Comprehensive Plan.  Any proposed policy changes occurring within the four-year period shall be included in the annual Comprehensive Plan updates in accordance with K.C.C. 20.18.030.B.7)) and also within ninety days of any significant change in the county space plan, such as a move, sale, purchase or other change, affecting fifty thousand or more square feet of useable space.

                     SECTION 3.  The Real Property Asset Management Plan v1.1, dated March 1, 2016, included as Attachment A to this ordinance, is adopted as part of the 2016

Comprehensive Plan update in conjunction with Ordinance ______ (Proposed Ordinance 2016-0155).