File #: 2010-0085    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 3/15/2010 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/29/2010
Enactment date: Enactment #: 13192
Title: A MOTION accepting a report on courthouse electronic signage including multiple language options as required in Ordinance 16717, Section 112, Proviso P1.
Sponsors: Julia Patterson
Indexes: Budget, Construction and Facilities Management (DCFM)
Attachments: 1. 13192.pdf, 2. A. King County Courthouse Electronic Multilingual Signage Feasibility, Cost, and Effectiveness, 3. 2010-0085 Transmittal Letter.doc, 4. Staff Report 03-16-2010, 5. 2010-0085 Staff Report w- attachments03-16-2010, 6. A. King County Courthouse Electronic Multilingual Signage Feasibility, Cost, and Effectiveness
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Clerk 01/29/2010
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A MOTION accepting a report on courthouse electronic signage including multiple language options as required in Ordinance 16717, Section 112, Proviso P1.
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      WHEREAS, the King County Courthouse, located in downtown Seattle, is a protected historical landmark and King County's signature building structure, and
      WHEREAS, a multitude of activities occur within the King County Courthouse, including court hearings and trials, council hearings, filing of claims, law enforcement investigation and evidence work and internal and public legal services and information, among countless other activities, and
      WHEREAS, many visitors to the King County Courthouse have limited proficiency in the English language, and
      WHEREAS, the 2010 King County Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16717, Section 112, providing the appropriation for the facilities management division internal service fund, contains a proviso requiring a report on the feasibility, cost and effectiveness of installing an electronic reader-board and signage in multiple languages to assist citizens in accessing services and court facilities in the King County Courthouse, and restricts expenditure of $200,000 from the appropriation until the council approves the report by motion, and
      WHEREAS, the executive has transmitted to the council with this motion a report on the feasibility, cost and effectiveness of electronic signage options in the King County Courthouse, and
      WHEREAS, the report includes investigation of installing such signage in multiple languages;
      NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
      The report on the feasibility, cost and effectiveness of electronic signage options in the King County Courthouse, Attachment A to this motion, is hereby approved.