File #: 2024-0228    Version:
Type: Motion Status: In Committee
File created: In control: Health and Human Services Committee
On agenda: 8/20/2024 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the second annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids initiative, in accordance with Ordinance 19354.
Sponsors: Pete von Reichbauer
Indexes: Best Start for Kids (BSK)
Attachments: 1. A. 2023 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report, July 15, 2024, 2. 2024-0228 Transmittal Letter, 3. 2024-0228 Legislative Review Form, 4. 2024-0228_SR_BSK 2023 report, 5. ATT2_AMD 1_BSK annual report_Typo correction
Related files: 2021-0288, 2024-RPT0085
Staff: Leskinen, Miranda

Drafter

Clerk 09/03/2024

Title

A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the second annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids initiative, in accordance with Ordinance 19354.

Body

                     WHEREAS, King County voters approved the best starts for kids levy in 2015 to fund prevention and early intervention strategies to improve the health and well-being of children, youth, families and communities, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 19267, providing for the submission of a renewed best starts for kids levy to the qualified electors of King County, was adopted by the metropolitan King County council on April 20, 2021, and signed by the executive on April 30, 2021, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 19267, King County voters approved King County Proposition No. 1 on August 3, 2021, authorizing a six-year renewal of the Best Starts for Kids levy to plan, provide, administer, and evaluate promotion, prevention, and early interventions and capital investments for King County children, youth, families and communities, and

                     WHEREAS, in accordance with Ordinance 19267, the executive transmitted to the council for review and adoption an implementation plan that identified the strategies to be funded, outcomes to be achieved, and framework to measure the performance of levy strategies, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 19354 adopted the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan, dated October 13, 2021, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 19267 and Ordinance 19354 require an annual report on levy expenditures, services, and outcomes to be transmitted to the council, with the first report due by July 15, 2023, and additional yearly reports to be transmitted no later than July 15 of each year through 2027, and

                     WHEREAS, the second annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids initiative, entitled 2023 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report, is submitted by the executive;

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

                     The receipt of the second annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids

initiative, entitled 2023 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report, Attachment A to this motion, in accordance with Ordinance 19354, is hereby acknowledged.