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Clerk 12/08/2015
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AN ORDINANCE relating to a capital improvement project and the operating budgets of the King County departments of executive services and community and human services; making a supplemental appropriation of $215,000 to various general fund agencies and $147,000 to various non-general fund agencies and $92,000 to capital fund budgets to provide funding to support the creation and operation of a temporary homeless shelter in the King County-owned building located at 420 Fourth Avenue, in Seattle Washington; amending the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Sections 42, 46, 86, 121 and 129, as amended, and Attachment A, as amended; and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. On November 2, 2015, the county executive and the mayor of the city of Seattle declared a state of emergency in response to the growing crisis of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Seattle and King County, and pledged, among other actions, to address immediate need through the expansion of shelter capacity in
Seattle.
B. On November 4, 2015, the county council passed a motion expressing support for an expansion of the King County Homeless Winter Shelter for winter 2015-2016.
C. The county executive has proposed expanding the King County Homeless Winter Shelter from fifty to one hundred persons by renovating and operating a new, temporary, shelter in the King County-owned building located at 420 Fourth Avenue, in Seattle, Washington.
D. It is necessary to commence the activities necessary to open the new, temporary, shelter immediately in order to address the unsheltered homeless emergency facing King County.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 17941, Section 42, is hereby amended to read as follows:
HUMAN SERVICES GF TRANSFERS - From the general fund there is hereby appropriated to:
Human Services GF transfers $((15,062,000)) 15,185,000
SECTION 3. Ordinance 1...
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