Drafter
Clerk 09/09/2010
Title
AN ORDINANCE creating a single parks citizen oversight board as provided for in Ordinances 15759 and 15760; amending Ordinance 15759, Section 7, and repealing Ordinance 15760, Section 8.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In August 2007, the voters of King County approved Proposition 1, which provided property tax levy revenues for continued and increased maintenance, operations, and disabled accessibility at King County's rural and regional parks, and Proposition 2, which provided funding for expanding city and county parks and recreation opportunities through the acquisition of open space and trails, and programs and capital improvements at the Woodland Park Zoo.
2. Proposition 1 and Proposition 2 each provided for the appointment of members by the county executive to a parks citizen oversight board, and each provided that if both measures were approved by the voters, the county council could combine the functions of the two boards into a single board.
3. The council finds it efficient and appropriate to create a single parks citizen oversight board to address the purposes of Propositions 1 and 2. Consistent with the direction of those measures, the function of the board should be to review the expenditure of levy proceeds and make policy recommendations to the county executive and county council regarding future expenditures.
4. The executive should appoint board members, based on the nominations of members of the council. The council should confirm members of the board. The board should report to the county executive and the county council annually on expenditures of levy revenues from Propositions 1 and 2 of 2007, and should make any appropriate recommendations on future expenditures. The board should expire on June 30, 2014.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15759, Section 7, is hereby amended to read as follows:
As provided for in Ordinance 15759, ((s))Section 6 ((of this ordinance))...

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