Drafter
Clerk 04/30/2008
Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing a new King County mental illness and drug dependency oversight committee; amending the King County Code to be consistent with Chapter 157, Laws of Washington 2008; amending Ordinance 15949, Section 4, and K.C.C. 4.33.020 and Ordinance 15949, Section 5, and 4.33.030 and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 2.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. In 2005, the state Legislature authorized counties to implement a one-tenth of one percent sales and use tax to support new or expanded chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs and services and for the operation of new or expanded therapeutic court programs and services. In November 2007, the council approved Ordinance 15949 authorizing the levy collection of and legislative policies for the expenditure of revenues from an additional sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent for the delivery of mental health and chemical dependency services and therapeutic courts. The ordinance also established a policy framework for measuring the effectiveness of the public's investment, requiring the King County executive to submit oversight, implementation and evaluation plans for the programs funded with the tax revenue.
B. Ordinance 15949 directed the development of an oversight plan by representatives from the King County office of management and budget, the King County departments of community and human services, public health, adult and juvenile detention, judicial administration as well as from superior court, district court, sheriff's office, office of the prosecuting attorney, office of the public defender and staff of the King County council. This oversight planning group worked together to develop the oversight plan, which is Attachment A to this ordinance.
C. The consensus oversight plan developed by the oversight planning group proposes the committee responsible for the ongoing oversight o...
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