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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into a development agreement and ground lease under which Neighborcare Health will construct and operate a new facility on the site of the North District Multiservice Center located in council district four.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County executive recommends that the county enter into a ground lease with a term of fifty years for approximately 3.17 acres of county property located at 10501 Meridian Ave N, in Seattle, Washington to Neighborcare Health, a Washington not-for-profit corporation, in accordance with K.C.C. 4.56.150.E.1.d., whereby Neighborcare Health will construct and operate a new social and health services facility.
2. An exhibit to the ground lease is a development agreement between the county and Neighborcare Health for the construction and operation the new social and health services facility.
3. In the new facility, Neighborcare Health will provide primary medical and dental services, will partner with a behavioral health provider, and will offer public health an option to lease space in the facility to provide public health services, all vital public services, which will be provided in an integrated manner and targeted for the benefit of low income and uninsured residents of north Seattle and north King County.
3. The development agreement also provides the county with an option for the county to lease back approximately ninety-six hundred square feet of the facility for use by Public Health - Seattle & King County to provide health and social services to the poor and indigent and replace the space currently occupied at the North District Multiservice Center A proposed lease is an exhibit to the development agreement.
4. K.C.C. 4.04.040.B.5.a. requires that any lease wherein the county is a tenant with a cumulative term of two years or more be approved by ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
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