Drafter
Clerk 01/05/2015
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to emergency jail housing; authorizing an emergency jail housing agreement between King County and Pierce county.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The King County department of adult and juvenile detention has a need for options to house inmates elsewhere in an emergency situation.
B. In 2009 and subsequent years, the department of adult and juvenile detention and the Pierce county sheriff's office entered into an agreement to provide housing to assist the department of adult and juvenile detention in an emergent situation. Pierce county also has a need for options to house inmates elsewhere in an emergency situation.
C. The attached agreement, Attachment A to this ordinance, allows the department of adult and juvenile detention and Pierce county to request that the other party provide housing and other related services during an emergency. The agreement includes cost reimbursement for emergency housing.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute the
emergency jail housing agreement and subsequent extensions, in substantially the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, between King County and Pierce county.