Drafter
Clerk 11/26/2013
Title
AN ORDINANCE ratifying the execution of agreements for jail services with the cities of Burien, Enumclaw and Federal Way.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In 2002, King County entered into an interlocal agreement for jail services with most cities in the county ("the 2002 agreement").
2. In 2010, King County and twenty-four cities ("the extension cities") signed an amendment to the 2002 agreement that both improved cost recovery for the county and extended the term of the 2002 agreement to 2016 ("the 2016 agreement").
3. In the fall of 2010, the county and the cities that signed the 2016 agreement began negotiations on possible improvements to the model for calculating the jail fees and, for any interested cities, other provisions for creating a long-term, durable arrangement for misdemeanant jail services.
4. Working with a group of the extension cities on the jail agreement administration group, two new contracting options were developed to provide a range of choices. One option ("the 2030 agreement") has a term that runs through 2030 and is modeled after the long-term, durable agreement with the city of Seattle approved by the council in Ordinance 17199 on September 26, 2011. To date, no other city has expressed interest in signing the agreement.
5. The second option ("the 2020 agreement") has a term of January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2020. Use of the 2020 agreement with extension cities was approved by the council in Ordinance 17239 on December 16, 2011. The 2020 agreement is currently being utilized by twenty of the twenty-four extension cities.
6. After the 2020 agreement was signed with three cities, Burien, Enumclaw and Federal Way, which are not extension cities, expressed an interest in entering into an interlocal agreement with King County for jail services. Based on the belief that Ordinance 17239 authorized execution of the 2020 agreement with all cities in King County, the executive signed th...
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