File #: 2005-0474    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/21/2005 In control: Natural Resources and Utilities Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2005
Enactment date: 12/16/2005 Enactment #: 15337
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement for the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish Watersheds within Water Resource Inventory Area 7, and authorizing the executive to enter into extensions of the Interlocal Agreements for the Watershed Basins within Water Resource Inventory Area 8 and Water Resource Inventory Area 9.
Sponsors: Carolyn Edmonds
Indexes: Agreement, Executive, Interlocal Agreement, Snoqualmie, City of, Water, Watersheds and Reservoirs
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 15337.pdf, 2. 2005-0474 Fiscal Note.xls, 3. 2005-0474 Revised Fiscal Note.xls, 4. 2005-0474 Staff Report WRIA ILA.doc, 5. 2005-0474 Transmittal Letter.doc, 6. A. Interlocal Agreement for the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish Watersheds within Water Resource Inventory Area 7, 7. A. Interlocal Agreement for the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish Watersheds within Water Resource Inventory Area 7, 8. B. Extension to the Interlocal Agreement for the Watershed Basins within Water Resources Inventory Area 8, 9. B. Extension to the Interlocal Agreement for the Watershed Basins within Water Resources Inventory Area 8, 10. C. Extension to the Interlocal Agreement for the Watershed Basins within Water Resources Inventory Area 9, 11. C. Extension to the Interlocal Agreement for the Watershed Basins within Water Resources Inventory Area 9
Drafter
Clerk 10/28/2005
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement for the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish Watersheds within Water Resource Inventory Area 7, and authorizing the executive to enter into extensions of the Interlocal Agreements for the Watershed Basins within Water Resource Inventory Area 8 and Water Resource Inventory Area 9.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. In response to the 1999 listing of the Puget Sound Chinook salmon under the Endangered Species Act ("ESA"), King County and other affected jurisdictions determined that water resource inventory area ("WRIA")-based salmon conservation planning was a critical and necessary component of ESA compliance and of salmon recovery overall.
B. On October 16, 2000, the King County council adopted Motion 11077, authorizing the King County executive to enter into three interlocal agreements between King County and other eligible governmental entities in, respectively, WRIAs 7, 8 and 9, for the purpose of cooperatively developing, funding and implementing watershed-based salmon recovery plans, habitat protection and restoration efforts and other water resource management projects and programs in the King County portion of WRIA 7 (Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish watersheds), in WRIA 8 (Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish watersheds) and in WRIA 9 (Green/Duwamish watershed).
C. Under each of the agreements, the participating jurisdictions appointed one representative to take part in a watershed forum for that WRIA, which acted as the governing body for the activities undertaken under each respective agreement. In each agreement, King County was designated as the service provider to complete the annual scopes of work agreed upon by the watershed forums.
D. Upon execution of the agreements, and over the ensuing five-year terms of the agreements, the jurisdictions that were parties to the agreements (fiv...

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