File #: 2006-0190    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/1/2006 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 6/19/2006 Final action: 6/19/2006
Enactment date: 6/29/2006 Enactment #: 15524
Title: AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $1,635,446 to the records, elections and licensing services division to initiate a transition to an all mail ballot voting system; and amending the 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, Section 25, as amended.
Sponsors: Julia Patterson, Bob Ferguson
Indexes: Appropriation, Elections, Records and Elections
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 15524.pdf, 2. 2006-0190 & 2006-0191 PowerPoint Presentation for 05-15-06 COW - Vote By Mail.ppt, 3. 2006-0190 Fiscal Note.xls, 4. 2006-0190 REVISED Staff Report for 06-05-06 COW.doc, 5. 2006-0190 Staff Report for 05-22-06 COW.doc, 6. 2006-0190 Staff Report for 06-05-06 COW.doc, 7. 2006-0190 Transmittal Letter.doc
Drafter
Clerk 06/20/2006
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AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $1,635,446 to the records, elections and licensing services division to initiate a transition to an all mail ballot voting system; and amending the 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, Section 25, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15333, Section 25, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting therein the following:
RECORDS, ELECTIONS AND LICENSING SERVICES - From the current expense fund there is hereby appropriated to:
Records, elections and licensing services $1,635,446
((P1 PROVIDED THAT:
Of this appropriation, $300,000 shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive submits to the council an assessment and turnaround plan developed by the consultant the executive has selected as the elections turnaround team.
The plan must be filed by March 1, 2006, in the form of 11 copies with the clerk of the council, who will retain the original and will forward copies to each councilmember and to the lead staff for the labor, operations and technology committee or its successor.
P2 PROVIDED FURTHER THAT:
Of this appropriation, $300,000 shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive submits and the council approves by motion a plan for implementing the elections turnaround plan. The plan shall include, at a minimum, measurable goals and objectives for improving elections operations, proposed strategies for achieving the objectives, baseline performance measures that will be used to measure progress in meeting the objectives and a quarterly report format to be used to update the council on progress in meeting the objectives.
The plan must be filed by April 1, 2006, in the form of 11 copies with the clerk of the council, who will retain the original and will forward copies to each councilmember and to the lead staff for the labor, operations and technology committee or its su...

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