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Clerk 01/26/2017
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A MOTION acknowledging receipt and approving a veterans housing assessment report in connection with possible renewal of the veterans and human services levy, as required in Motion 14743, Section B, and the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1.
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WHEREAS, the veterans and human services levy will expire on December 31, 2017, and
WHEREAS, the veterans and human services levy is a voter-approved, six-year levy lid lift, renewal of which requires voter approval of a ballot measure, and
WHEREAS, Motion 14743, Section B, calls for the executive to prepare an assessment report to assess the costs of providing housing, including shelter where and when needed, for every King County veteran in need of housing or shelter, such that no veteran residing in King County who seeks housing or shelter, shall remain unhoused, and
WHEREAS, Motion 14743, Section B, further requires that the report should assess whether funding to support these costs should be assembled by re-allocating existing levy proceeds, or whether additional revenues should be raised, or a combination of both, and further requires that the report include a timeline to accomplish the goal of housing every veteran who seeks housing or shelter, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1, requires that $25,000 shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a report about the potential to use rapid rehousing as a strategy to meet the needs of homeless veterans, and a motion that should acknowledge receipt of the rapid rehousing report and reference the subject matter, the proviso's ordinance, ordinance section and proviso number in both the title and body of the motion and a motion acknowledging receipt of the rapid rehousing report is passed by the council, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 18409, Section 66, Proviso P1, further provides that the rapid rehousing report may be incorporated into the veterans' housin...

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