Drafter
Clerk 10/03/2003
Title
AN ORDINANCE concerning the governance model for the King County fairgrounds and board member compensation; and amending Ordinance 12075, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.32.040, Ordinance 1128 (part), as amended, and K.C.C. 2.32.050 and Ordinance 11955, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.045.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The county's current expense fund faces significant challenges as revenue growth has slowed dramatically at the same time as the cost to deliver mandated county services continue to escalate.
2. The county, as a result of current and on-going fiscal crisis, has taken action to ensure both short-term and long-term viability of its parks and recreation services.
3. The metropolitan parks task force was established in the spring of 2002 to find ways to keep the county parks and recreation system open in 2003 and thereafter and to restore stability to the park system by removing it from dependence on the current expense fund.
4. The metropolitan parks task force issued its recommendations in June 2002.
5. One of the recommendations of the task force was that the park and recreation division carries out its refocused mission by aggressively implementing a broad variety of new entrepreneurial strategies throughout the park system, including the fairgrounds, that will help raise revenues to support park operations.
6. The King County fairgrounds is an 81.5-acre site with the ability to generate year-round revenues at the fairground beyond the operations of the King County fair event.
7. The King County fair board has historically provided direction regarding the operation of the King County fair.
8. To more-effectively implement the recommendations of the metropolitan parks task force, the King County fairgrounds needs a citizen board that provides input into the fairgrounds operations year-round and to provide direction and actions to enhance the revenue capabilities of the fairgrounds and ...

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