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Clerk 06/22/2005
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AN ORDINANCE relating to jail services; authorizing the execution of an interlocal agreement between King County and the Washington state Department of Corrections allowing King County to make jail beds available for certain felony violators under state supervision.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The Washington state Department of Corrections ("DOC") has the authority to detain, or cause to be arrested, certain individuals. The DOC desires to have these individuals housed by the department of adult and juvenile detention. The department of adult and juvenile detention would like to make use of the DOC's work release facility.
B. Due to King County's ongoing budget crisis, there is no room available for DOC inmates without compensation to cover the costs of housing such inmates.
C. The attached interlocal agreement provides that the county will make twenty jail beds available for DOC inmates in exchange for the use of thirty beds in DOC work release facilities. The DOC will also pay for an additional one hundred twenty to two hundred jail beds daily during the term of the agreement.
D. The agreement shall automatically renew for successive one-year terms, unless terminated by either party, without cause, upon sixty days' written notice to the other party.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute an interlocal agreement, in substantially the form of Attachment A to this ordinance,
allowing King County to make jail beds available for certain felony violators under DOC supervision.