Drafter
Clerk 10/10/2007
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into lease renewals for various sites.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. The Columbia Public Health Center, also known as the Southeast clinic, has been located in the current location since 1990.
B. The Downtown Public Health Center has been located in the Denny Regrade area since 1990; a fifteen-year lease was renewed in 2005 for another five-year term.
C. The Briarwood sheriff's office storefront was relocated in 2006 from another location in the same complex.
D. The Enumclaw Public Health site and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program was relocated from the Enumclaw Hospital due to expansion/remodeling; the clinic is now located in a closed Enumclaw School District elementary school.
E. The Auburn Public Health Center is a lease extension of the original five-year term, which started in 1999 and ended in 2004. The new agreement is retroactive to October 1, 2004, and ends May 30, 2007.
F. The Bellevue district court has been located at the former Surrey Downs School in Bellevue since 1985. The building was given to the city of Bellevue in 2004 as part of the Coal Creek park transfer. The county then became the tenant when Bellevue became the lessor for Surrey Downs.
G. The lease agreements represent no change in the approved staffing, work program, budget or physical location for any of the programs mentioned in subsections A. through F. of this section.
H. In accordance with K.C.C. 4.04.040 the King County council may adopt an ordinance permitting the county to enter into contracts requiring the payment of funds from the appropriation of subsequent fiscal years. Additionally, Ordinance 15328 was passed by the King County council on November 21, 2005, amending the provisions of K.C.C. 4.04.040 and limiting lease terms, where the county is the lessee, to a cumulative total of two years. ...
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