File #: 2017-0034    Version:
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 1/30/2017 In control: Health, Housing and Human Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/13/2017
Enactment date: Enactment #: 14823
Title: A MOTION acknowledging receipt and approving a veterans housing assessment report in connection with possible renewal of the veterans and human services levy, as required in Motion 14743, Section B, and the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1.
Sponsors: Pete von Reichbauer, Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Indexes: Housing, levy, Veterans
Attachments: 1. Motion 14823.pdf, 2. A. King County Veterans and Human Services Levy Report Two - Veterans Housing Assessment, 3. 2017-0034 Transmittal Letter.docx, 4. 2017-0034.2 SR_dated_02222017_VHSL Housing Assessment Report.docx, 5. 2017-0034.2 SR_dated_03072017_VHSL Housing Assessment Report.docx, 6. ATT4_AMD 1_VHSL Housing Assessment Report Ritzen edits 01-27-17.docx, 7. ATT5_T1_VHSL Housing Assessment Report Ritzen edits 01-27-17.docx
Staff: Leskinen, Miranda

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Clerk 01/26/2017

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A MOTION acknowledging receipt and approving a veterans housing assessment report in connection with possible renewal of the veterans and human services levy, as required in Motion 14743, Section B, and the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1.

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                     WHEREAS, the veterans and human services levy will expire on December 31, 2017, and

                     WHEREAS, the veterans and human services levy is a voter-approved, six-year levy lid lift, renewal of which requires voter approval of a ballot measure, and

                     WHEREAS, Motion 14743, Section B, calls for the executive to prepare an assessment report to assess the costs of providing housing, including shelter where and when needed, for every King County veteran in need of housing or shelter, such that no veteran residing in King County who seeks housing or shelter, shall remain unhoused, and

                     WHEREAS, Motion 14743, Section B, further requires that the report should assess whether funding to support these costs should be assembled by re-allocating existing levy proceeds, or whether additional revenues should be raised, or a combination of both, and further requires that the report include a timeline to accomplish the goal of housing every veteran who seeks housing or shelter, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1, requires that $25,000 shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a report about the potential to use rapid rehousing as a strategy to meet the needs of homeless veterans, and a motion that should acknowledge receipt of the rapid rehousing report and reference the subject matter, the proviso’s ordinance, ordinance section and proviso number in both the title and body of the motion and a motion acknowledging receipt of the rapid rehousing report is passed by the council, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1, further provides that the rapid rehousing report may be incorporated into the veterans’ housing report, requested by Motion 14743, Section B, and

                     WHEREAS, the veterans housing report is submitted by the executive;

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

                     The council acknowledges receipt and approving the veterans housing report,

Attachment A to this motion, as requested in Motion 14743, Section B, and in satisfaction of Ordinance 18409,