File #: 2004-0068    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/9/2004 In control: Natural Resources and Utilities Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/15/2004
Enactment date: 3/25/2004 Enactment #: 14852
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into amendments to interlocal agreements with the cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, North Bend and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds allocated under Ordinance 14797.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Carolyn Edmonds
Indexes: Auburn, City of, Bellevue, City of, Conservation Futures, Federal Way, City of, Interlocal Agreement, Issaquah, City of, Kent, City of, North Bend, City of, Seattle, City of
Attachments: 1. 14852.pdf, 2. 2004-0068 Staff Report Conservation Futures Auburn Bellevue Federal Way Issaquah Kent North Bend Seattle.doc, 3. 2004-0068 transmittal letter.doc, 4. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement Between King County and the City of _________ for Open Space Acquisition Projects, 5. B. Project Descriptions
Staff: Reed, Mike
Drafter
Clerk 01/29/2004
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into amendments to interlocal agreements with the cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, North Bend and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds allocated under Ordinance 14797.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1.  Conservation futures tax levy funds are collected throughout King County as a dedicated portion of the property tax and are, by statute, available only for the acquisition of open space and resource lands.
2.  Ordinance 14714 established procedures for the annual allocation of conservation futures tax levy funds, which directs the conservation futures citizens committee to make funding recommendations to the King County executive to consider for inclusion in the annual budget ordinance.
3.  The executive has transmitted in the annual budget ordinance and the council has appropriated 2004 conservation futures funds to the open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordinance.
4.  The county desires to disburse conservation futures funds to the city of Seattle and suburban cities and must do so by amending existing or executing new interlocal agreements with these jurisdictions.
5.  The county and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act.
      BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
      SECTION 1.  The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into and execute contracts or amendments to interlocal agreements, containing language substantially similar to that attached to this ordinance, necessary for the disbursement of
 
conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated in Ordinance 14797, as adopted by the King County council.
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