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Clerk 01/31/2013
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Bellevue, Bothell, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Renton and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 17476.
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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 direct 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 received and considered the conservation futures citizens' committee funding recommendations and has included them in the 2013 budget ordinance, Ordinance 17476, in which the King County council appropriated 2013 conservation futures funds to the city open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordinance.
4. For King County to disburse 2013 conservation futures collections to the suburban cities and the City of Seattle, it must sign conservation futures interlocal cooperation agreements or amend existing conservation futures interlocal agreements with these jurisdictions.
5. The county and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to 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 17476.
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