Drafter
Clerk 05/16/2011
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AN ORDINANCE relating to agreements between King County and the cities of Covington, Kenmore, Maple Valley and Newcastle and the Muckleshoot Tribe, for occupancy of certain facilities and improvements thereto in city police departments to accommodate sheriff's personnel in providing service to the unincorporated area.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The King County sheriff's office provides police services to twelve incorporated cities through an inter-local agreement signed in 2000.
B. The sheriff's office provides police services to the Muckleshoot Tribe, Sound Transit and King County Metro Transit through separate agreements, but on similar terms to the city inter-local agreement.
C. In the last decade, unincorporated area officers have adopted an informal practice of dropping in to contract city police departments to prepare paper work, take breaks and communicate with other officers.
D. In November 2011, the King County council approved a reorganization of the sheriff's office that included creating one east precinct out of what had been two separate precincts, precincts 2 and 3.
E. As part of the reorganization, the sheriff's office will consolidate its command staff in a new east precinct command center in leased space in the Sammamish City Hall.
F. The city of Sammamish contracts with the sheriff's office for police services.
G. With the new east precinct command center, the sheriff's office will no longer use the county-owned facilities in the city of Kenmore for precinct 2 and the city of Maple Valley for precinct 3.
H. In lieu of the Kenmore and Maple Valley precincts, unincorporated officers will rely on their ability to drop in to contract city police departments as a normal course of business.
I. Some facility improvements, such as new voice and data lines and creating secure space for evidence storage and interviews, will be required in east side contract cities to accommodate the unincorporated area officers.
J. The use of such incorporated city facilities is authorized under Section 6.5 of the police services inter-local agreement, with the county's rent expense credited as an offset against the annual police services cost for each city providing such a facility. The facility improvements will be constructed or caused to be constructed by the individual cities and the Muckleshoot Tribe at the expense of the county.
K. The agreement for each city and the Muckleshoot Tribe will include the facility improvements needed to accommodate the unincorporated officers and the credit each city will receive toward its annual contract payment for providing the space for unincorporated officers.
L. The locations where facility improvements will be made include the cities of Covington, Kenmore, Maple Valley and Newcastle and Muckleshoot tribal lands, as well as in the vicinity of the city of Woodinville.
SECTION 2. The King County executive or the executive's designee is hereby authorized to execute agreements with the cities of Covington, Kenmore, Maple Valley and Newcastle, and the Muckleshoot Tribe, substantially in form of Attachments A, B, C,
D and E to this ordinance, for occupancy and facilities improvements to accommodate unincorporated area officers in city police departments.