Drafter
Clerk 10/21/2008
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute a thirty-year use agreement with the Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association for the use, construction, development, programming, and maintenance of athletic fields and related infrastructure at Sixty Acres park.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The Parks Business Plan provides direction for the parks division to work in partnership with organizations to provide new recreational facilities.
B. There is an unmet demand for additional soccer fields across King County, and the county has negotiated a partnership with the Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association ("LWYSA") that will help meet this important need.
C. The LWYSA represents a membership of almost seven thousand youth playing soccer in the Lake Washington school district.
D. The LWYSA will develop and maintain field improvements available at Sixty Acres South and at no cost to King County taxpayers.
E. The LWYSA will ensure that these improvements are available and accessible to the public as required by both Forward Thrust and the Washington state Recreation and Conservation Office.
F. Historical users of Sixty Acres South including users who fly radio-controlled model planes will continue to have access to the park for both passive and active recreation that may be either drop-in use or formally scheduled use.
G. The LWYSA will work with King County and the Seattle Area Soaring Society to establish an agreement that ensures continued opportunities for soaring to take place at Sixty Acres South.
H. King County will continue its good-faith effort to assist the Seattle Area Soaring Society to identify a separate, permanent site for soaring in King County, and to research various funding sources to acquire such a site.
I. Ordinance 14509 authorizes the department of natural resources and parks to create new public recreational opport...

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