File #: 2014-0238    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/16/2014 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 6/23/2014
Enactment date: 6/24/2014 Enactment #: 17838
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute the fourth amendment to the forty-year use agreement with the Eastside Football Club approved by Ordinance 15704 and amended by Ordinance 16245.
Sponsors: Kathy Lambert
Indexes: Agreement, Soccer
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17838.pdf, 2. A. Fourth Amendment to Use Agreement with Eastside Football Club for Soccer Facility at Preston Park, 3. A. Fourth Amendment to Use Agreement with Eastside Football Club for Soccer Facility at Preston Park, 4. 2014-0238 Staff Report - EFC Amendment 4.docx
Staff: Bourguignon, Mary
Drafter
Clerk 06/12/2014
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute the fourth amendment to the forty-year use agreement with the Eastside Football Club approved by Ordinance 15704 and amended by Ordinance 16245.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Ordinance 14509 authorizes the department of natural resources and parks to create new public recreational opportunities by empowering user groups, sports associations, and community organizations to operate, maintain and program mutually agreed upon capital improvements for public recreation facilities on King County land, and thereby address regional and rural recreation needs without encumbering new tax funded operations and maintenance costs.
2. In accordance with K.C.C. 4.56.150.E, the King County council may adopt an ordinance permitting the county to enter into agreements for the use of county property with bona fide nonprofit organizations if the property is to be used by the nonprofit organization to make improvements to the county property or to provide services that will benefit the public. The agreements are exempt from the requirements of fair market value, appraisal and notice.
3. Ordinance 15704, adopted in March 2007, authorized the executive to execute a forty-year use agreement ("the agreement") with the Eastside Football Club ("EFC") for the use, construction, development, programming and supplemental maintenance of a soccer facility ("the soccer facility") that was defined as including two synthetic soccer fields, one natural grass soccer field, related amenities, parking and site-wide infrastructure at the Preston fields and community park; and committed the county's community partnerships and grants ("CPG") program to contribute one million five hundred thousand dollars to the development of the soccer facility.
4. EFC began the work of developing the soccer facility.
5. Section 2.7 of the agreement required EFC to pay the county a guaranteed rental fee for the...

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