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Clerk 11/13/2014
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Auburn and Bothell to disburse conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 17855.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County conservation futures tax levy funds are collected throughout King County as a dedicated portion of the property tax for the acquisition of open space and resource lands.
2. Ordinance 14714 established procedures for the annual allocation of conservation futures tax levy funds, which directs the conservation futures citizens committee to make funding recommendations to the King County executive to consider for inclusion in the annual budget ordinance.
3. The executive has received and considered the conservation futures citizens committee funding recommendations and has included them in Ordinance 17855, in which the King County council has appropriated conservation futures funds to the city open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordinance.
4. King County must sign conservation futures interlocal cooperation agreements or amend existing conservation futures interlocal agreements to disburse funds to the particular jurisdictions.
5. King County and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement under chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into, and execute amendments to, interlocal cooperation agreements containing language, substantially similar to that in Attachment A to this ordinance, necessary for the
disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 17855, for the city open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordinance.