Drafter
Clerk 11/10/2022
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the issuance and sale of one or more series of limited tax general obligation bonds of the county in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $664,000,000 to provide financing for the public defense management system upgrade projects, the civil case management system upgrade projects, the conservation futures land acquisition projects, the affordable housing and homeless housing projects, the community facilities bond projects, the 911 call center project, the energize home appliance upgrade project, the energize program, the equitable wastewater futures project, the community safety through lighting projects, the farmland infrastructure project, the electric vehicle charging infrastructure projects, the county facilities capital improvement projects, the solid waste division capital improvement plan projects, the road projects, the Skyway community center, the Fall City community center and participatory budgeting projects, and to pay the costs of issuing the bonds; authorizing the issuance and sale of one or more series of limited tax general obligation refunding bonds to refund outstanding limited tax general obligations of the county and to pay the costs of issuing the refunding bonds; providing for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds; establishing funds for the receipt and expenditure of bond proceeds and for the payment of the bonds; and providing for the annual levy of taxes to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Pursuant to county authority including RCW 39.46.110, the county may issue limited tax general obligation bonds that are payable from tax revenues of the county and such other moneys lawfully available and pledged or provided by the governing body of the county.
2. The Washington state Legislature has found that Washington is experiencing a climate emergency in the form of increasingly devastating wildfires, flooding, drough...
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