Drafter
Clerk 09/09/2010
Title
AN ORDINANCE creating a single parks citizen oversight board as provided for in Ordinances 15759 and 15760; amending Ordinance 15759, Section 7, and repealing Ordinance 15760, Section 8.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In August 2007, the voters of King County approved Proposition 1, which provided property tax levy revenues for continued and increased maintenance, operations, and disabled accessibility at King County's rural and regional parks, and Proposition 2, which provided funding for expanding city and county parks and recreation opportunities through the acquisition of open space and trails, and programs and capital improvements at the Woodland Park Zoo.
2. Proposition 1 and Proposition 2 each provided for the appointment of members by the county executive to a parks citizen oversight board, and each provided that if both measures were approved by the voters, the county council could combine the functions of the two boards into a single board.
3. The council finds it efficient and appropriate to create a single parks citizen oversight board to address the purposes of Propositions 1 and 2. Consistent with the direction of those measures, the function of the board should be to review the expenditure of levy proceeds and make policy recommendations to the county executive and county council regarding future expenditures.
4. The executive should appoint board members, based on the nominations of members of the council. The council should confirm members of the board. The board should report to the county executive and the county council annually on expenditures of levy revenues from Propositions 1 and 2 of 2007, and should make any appropriate recommendations on future expenditures. The board should expire on June 30, 2014.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15759, Section 7, is hereby amended to read as follows:
As provided for in Ordinance 15759, ((s))Section 6 ((of this ordinance)) and Ordinance 15760, Section 7, a county parks citizen oversight board is hereby created to review the expenditure of levy proceeds and make policy recommendations to the county executive and county council regarding future expenditures. ((In the event that the qualified electors of King County approve both the proposition set forth in section 6 of this ordinance and the proposition set forth in Ordinance ----- (Proposed Ordinance 2007-0225), Section 7, then the council may, at its discretion, nominate and confirm the same members to both boards or combine the board functions into one board.)) The board shall consist of nine members, to be appointed by the executive. Each councilmember shall nominate a candidate for the board from the councilmember's district. If the executive does not appoint a person who has been nominated by a councilmember, the executive must request that the councilmember nominate another candidate for appointment. Board members shall be confirmed by the council. Members shall be residents of King County. The chair of the council shall designate one additional person to participate in board discussion, but the person shall neither vote nor be a member of the board. On or before May 30 of each year beginning in 2009, the board shall review and make a written report to the King County executive and the King County council on the expenditure of all levy proceeds and any policy recommendations regarding levy proceeds. Ten copies of each written report shall be filed with the clerk of the council, for distribution to all councilmembers. The parks and recreation division shall provide the board with all reports on division activities that the division transmits to the King
County council in accordance with K.C.C. 7.08.090. The board expires June 30, 2014.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 15760, Section 8, is hereby repealed.