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Clerk 08/29/2013
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AN ORDINANCE approving seven emergency medical services interagency lease renewal agreements to provide continuing service to council districts five, seven and nine.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KINGCOUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The King County emergency medical services system, publicly known as Medic One, is an integrated publicly funded partnership that provides essential emergency services within King County.
B. In July 2007, King County enacted Ordinance 15861 authorizing a special election regarding continued funding for Medic One emergency medical services. The voters of King County approved this levy which authorizes King County to collect revenues described in the levy for six consecutive years beginning January 1, 2008, and ending December 31, 2013.
C. Expenditures authorized by the levy are described in RCW 84.52.069 including the provision of facilities.
D. The King County Emergency Medical Services Master Plan and its associated location analyses have demonstrated that locating Medic One facilities at fire department facilities provides improved paramedic response to cities.
E. The King County executive has negotiated seven interagency lease renewal agreements to locate Medic One facilities at fire district facilities within Auburn, Des Moines, Enumclaw, Federal Way and Kent and at fire department buildings within the cities of Renton and SeaTac. These agreements allow King County to continue its long standing practice of co-locating Medic One facilities within city facilities. The lease agreements are summarized as follows:
1. Lease 1182 800 square feet at 3700 South 320th Street, Federal Way
1,100 square feet at 2238 South 223rd Street, Des Moines
784square feet at 27010 15th Avenue South, Des Moines;
2. Lease 1288 1,096 square feet at 1101 "D" Street Northeast, Auburn;
3. Lease 1453 1,367 square feet at 15635 Southeast 272nd Street, Kent;
4. Lease 1584 1,280 ...
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