Drafter
Clerk 10/23/2014
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to fiscal note procedure; amending Ordinance 12076, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.04.075, adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 4A and recodifying K.C.C. 4.04.075.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. There is hereby established a new chapter in K.C.C. Title 4A. The new chapter shall contain K.C.C. 4.04.075, as recodified by this ordinance.
SECTION 2. K.C.C. 4.04.075, as amended by this ordinance, is hereby recodified as a new section in the new chapter established in section 1 of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. Ordinance 12076, Section 4, as amended and K.C.C. 4.04.075 are hereby amended to read as follows:
A. The director of the office of performance, strategy and budget, or its successor, shall ((establish, and submit to the council for approval by motion, a process, including form, content and timing, for the preparation of fiscal notes on the expected impact of proposed legislation that will increase or decrease county revenues or expenditures)) maintain a fiscal note process and shall update formats for fiscal notes as needed to provide for the requirements of this section, adopted comprehensive financial management policies and any other information required by the council. ((The fiscal notes shall document the impact of proposed legislation for the current fiscal year and for each of the succeeding three fiscal years. If proposed legislation authorizes the execution of a contract or interlocal agreement that extends beyond three years, the fiscal note shall document the impact through the end of the term of the proposed contract or interlocal agreement. The director shall coordinate the development of fiscal notes with all affected agencies. Fiscal notes shall accompany all legislation transmitted by the executive, but a fiscal note may be omitted when the executive certifies in writing that the subject legislation has no significant fiscal impact on ei...
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