Drafter
Clerk 10/16/2023
Title
AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $97,019,000 to veterans, seniors, and human services levy; and amending the 2023-2024 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19546, Section 72, as amended.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In 2023, Ordinance 19604 placed a six-year renewal of the veterans, seniors, and human services levy on the ballot. King County voters approved Proposition No. 1 on August 1, 2023, by 71.6 percent, authorizing the renewal of the levy for 2024-2029, to fund capital facilities and services for veterans and military servicemembers and their respective families; seniors and their caregivers; and resilient populations susceptible to reduced health, housing, financial, or social stability outcomes.
2. Ordinance 19604, Section 7, requires the executive to transmit by October 31, 2023, an implementation plan for council review and adoption by ordinance of the veterans, seniors, and human services levy. According to Ordinance 19604, Section 7.B., until the council adopts by ordinance such implementation plan, levy proceeds may only be expended to continue existing levy-supported services into 2024 and consistent with the veterans, seniors, and human services levy implementation plan adopted by Ordinance 18768.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 19546, Section 72, as amended, is hereby amended as follows:
VETERANS, SENIORS, AND HUMAN SERVICES LEVY - From the veterans, seniors, and human services levy fund there is hereby appropriated to:
Veterans, seniors, and human services levy $97,019,000
The maximum additional number of FTEs for veterans, seniors, and human services levy shall be: 36.0
ER1 EXPENDITURE RESTRICTION:
Of this appropriation, $90,000 shall be expended from levy proceeds allocated in 2023 for SE 4.8 Veterans, Servicemembers and Family Community Building for the Major Pete von Reichbauer (Ret.) Veterans Service Organizations Grant Program as described in ...

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