Drafter
Clerk 08/22/2002
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into interlocal agreements with the cities of Bellevue, Covington, Issaquah, Kent, Mercer Island, Milton, Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Shoreline and Tukwila, for the disbursement of conservation futures funds.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Conservation futures tax levy funds are collected throughout King County as a dedicated portion of the property tax and are, by statute, available only for the acquisition of open space and resource lands.
2. Ordinance 13717 established a process for the annual allocation of conservation futures tax levy funds which directs the conservation futures citizens committee to make funding recommendations to the King County executive and council.
3. The executive has transmitted an ordinance to the council appropriating 2002 conservation futures funds to the open space projects recommended by the conservation futures citizens committee.
4. The county desires to disburse conservation futures funds to the city of Seattle and suburban cities and must do so by amending existing or executing new interlocal agreements with these jurisdictions.
5. The county and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into and execute contracts and interlocal agreements, in substantially the form attached to this ordinance, or make amendments to existing contracts or interlocal agreements, containing language substantially similar to that attached, necessary for the disbursement of
conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated in Ordinance ------ (Proposed Ordinance 2002-0393) as adopted by the King County council.