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Clerk 10/13/2016
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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning; adopting the 2016 King County real property asset management plan in response to the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 121, as amended by Ordinance 18110, Section 55, Proviso P1 and to K.C.C. 20.12.100; and amending Ordinance 10810, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.100.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. K.C.C. 20.12.100 requires the county executive to submit updates to the real property asset management plan to the county council for approval every fourth year, beginning on March 1, 2016.
B. Changed patterns of space use have resulted in opportunities to consolidate agencies, to move agencies to strategic locations and to better address the county's underutilized space in county facilities.
C. The 2016 real property asset management plan highlights important changes underway in the county's real property portfolio and details the proposed near term moves.
D. Information on opportunities, changes and near-term plans for the county's real estate portfolio should be subject to council review and approval on a more frequent basis than on the four-year comprehensive plan update cycle and need not be adopted with the comprehensive plan.
E. The 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 121, as amended by Ordinance 18110, Section 55, Proviso P1, states that $720,000 of the appropriation for the capital improvement program shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a scoping report on the county's future operational and space needs in the downtown Seattle campus as a whole and updates the real property asset management plan as mandated by K.C.C. 20.12.100 and a motion that approves the report and the motion is passed by council.
F. The executive transmitted Proposed Motion 2016-0158, which approves the scoping report on the county's future operational and s...

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