title
A MOTION approving a plan regarding ongoing surface water management participation in funding roadway drainage projects in accordance with 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance 17941, Section 77, Proviso P1.
body
WHEREAS, Ordinance 17941, Section 77, Proviso P1, states that five hunded thousand dollars may not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a plan regarding ongoing surface water management participation in funding roadway drainage projects and a motion that approves the plan and the motion is passed by the council, and
WHEREAS, surface water management fee revenues have been programmed to support roadway drainage projects in the 2015/2016 Biennal Budget Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, the water and land resources division of the department of natural resources and parks, the road services division of the department of transportation, the office of the prosecuting attorney and the office of performance, strategy and budget in the office of the King County executive have worked together to analyze and address the technical and policy issues associated with the surface water management fee, its uses, its payers and funding needs for roadway drainage projects, and
WHEREAS, the plan identifies different alternatives for surface water funding of roadway drainage projects and the impacts of these alternatives on the surface water management fee, and
WHEREAS, the executive has transmitted to the council the requested plan and motion;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The plan regarding ongoing surface water management participation in funding roadway drainage projects, submitted as Attachment A to this motion in accordance with Ordinance 17941, Section 77, Proviso P1, is hereby approved.