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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into interlocal cooperation agreements and amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Bellevue, Burien, Duvall, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kent, Lake Forest Park, Normandy Park, Seattle, Shoreline, Snoqualmie and Tukwila for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 14797, Ordinance 15295, Ordinance 15555 and Ordinance 15652.
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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 14714 established procedures 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 to consider for inclusion in the annual budget ordinance.
3. The executive has transmitted in the annual budget ordinance, and the King County council has appropriated 2007 conservation futures funds by Ordinance 15652, to the open space projects listed and described in Attachment C to this ordinance.
4. The council has approved Ordinance 15555, which approved an allocation to the Shoreline South Woods Conservation Futures acquisition project listed and described in Attachment C to this ordinance.
5. The council has approved Ordinance 14797 and Ordinance 15295, which approved an allocation to the Hylebos Creek Conservation Futures acquisition project listed and described in Attachment C to this motion.
6. 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.
7. The county and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation ...
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