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Clerk 07/01/2014
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute a funding agreement by and among the King County flood control zone district, the contributing parties identified in the funding agreement and King County in order to provide funding for the implementation and completion of the countyline levee setback project.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County functions as the service provider under an interlocal agreement between the county and the King County flood control zone district, and in this capacity has been in the process of designing, planning, and implementing the countyline levee setback project.
2. The countyline levee setback project will consist of a setback levee and biorevetment along the White river in the vicinity of the cities of Pacific, Auburn and Sumner, Washington, between river mile 5.0 and 6.3 ("the countyline project").
3. The countyline project will have significant flood control and flood protection benefits to help protect lives and residential properties in the city of Pacific and the commercial properties in the city of Sumner that are in the vicinity of this portion of the White river.
4. Addressing flood protection for the properties within the city of Pacific is a high priority in the adopted 2006 King County Flood Hazard Management Plan, as amended by the 2013 Flood Hazard Management Plan Update.
5. The flood district has included significant funding for the countyline project in its six-year capital improvement program.
6. While the flood district has been and continues to be a significant source of funding for the countyline project, other entities have provided or will provide funds for design, property acquisitions and construction, including the salmon recovery funding board, and Pierce county through a commitment to provide five hundred thousand dollars and real property interests in the form of an easement on a tract owned by Pierce county.
7. King County has co...
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