Drafter
Clerk 10/31/2024
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to the King County Doors Open Program to support cultural organizations; and amending Ordinance 19710, Section 8.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Ordinance 19710, Section 8, allocates the tax proceeds received by the county in 2024 for startup funding to 4Culture and the county and the 2024 one-time capital and one-time operating support program.
2. Doors Open Program one-time grant programs will allow cultural organizations to deploy resources to their most emergent operating and capital needs.
3. Providing increased financial support in 2024 for cultural organizations through one-time operating and capital grant programs is essential to ensure their survival and growth and to prevent further losses in the cultural sector.
4. Councilmembers have expressed interest in ensuring as much of the Doors Open proceeds collected in 2024 are allocated to cultural organizations at the earliest possible opportunity.
5. With projections indicating that up to sixty-seven percent of 2024 revenue collections will be approximately forty-eight million dollars, adding the remaining nineteen million and four hundred thousand dollars to the one-time grant program allocation would significantly expedite funding for cultural organizations.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: It is the intent of the council that all the tax proceeds received by the county in 2024 for Doors Open be allocated for 2024 startup and one-time grant programs and not rolled over to the 2025-2031 Doors Open programs.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 19710, Section 8, is hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Tax proceeds received by the county in 2024 shall be used as follows:
1. Up to two percent for repayment of start-up funding;
2. Up to three percent for administrative costs;
3.a. ((Up to sixty-seven percent)) The remainder after reserving the amount required in subsection A.1. and 2. of this section for the 202...

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