File #: 2013-0158    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/1/2013 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 5/6/2013
Enactment date: 5/16/2013 Enactment #: 17579
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement among King County, the King County Flood Control Zone District and the city of Auburn to convey easements for implementation of the Reddington levee setback and extension project.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17579.pdf, 2. A. City of Auburn Interlocal Agreement, 3. B. Flood Protection Easement Form, 4. 2013-0158 Fiscal Note.xlsx, 5. 2013-0158 transmittal letter.doc, 6. A. City of Auburn Interlocal Agreement, 7. 2013-0158 Reddington sr khm v3.doc, 8. 17579 Amendment l 5-6-13.pdf
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement among King County, the King County Flood Control Zone District and the city of Auburn to convey easements for implementation of the Reddington levee setback and extension project.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County Flood Control Zone District ("the district") is a quasi-municipal corporation formed under the authority of chapter 86.15 RCW for the purposes of providing flood protection projects and services throughout King County.
2. King County, as service provider to the district under an interlocal agreement by and between the county and the district, provides flood protection services and implements flood protection projects that the district has authorized and approved in its annual work program and its six-year capital improvement program ("CIP"). The district funds such services and implementation of the projects.
3. The district, in its annual work program and its six-year CIP, has authorized the construction of the Reddington levee setback and extension project ("the Reddington levee project"). Phase I of the Reddington levee project, which extends along the Green river from 43rd St. NE in the north to 26th St. NE in the south in the city of Auburn, involves setting back and extending a levee along the Green river for a distance of approximately six thousand linear feet. Phase II of the Reddington levee project, which does not have an established timeline or funding, is proposed to extend the levee from the northern terminus of Phase I north to S. 277th Street.
4. Both the district and the county have adopted the 2006 King County Flood Hazard Management Plan, which recommends implementation of the Reddington levee project.
5. Under the terms of the interlocal agreement between the county and the district, the county is responsible for obtaining in its own name all of the property interests necessary for implementation of a project, including the Reddington...

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