Drafter
Clerk 09/30/2008
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AN ORDINANCE making a net disappropriation of $450,593 from records and licensing services to increase animal control services in cities and transfer central rates to elections, and deletes a proviso; and a net supplemental appropriation of $1,637,727 to elections for budget reprioritizations and transfer central rates from records and licensing services; and amending the 2008 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15975, Sections 30 and 31, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. From the current expense fund there is hereby approved and adopted a disappropriation of $450,593 from records and licensing services to increase animal control services in cities and transfer central rates to elections, and delete a proviso; and a net supplemental appropriation of $1,637,727 to elections for budget reprioritizations and transfer central rates from records and licensing services.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 15975, Section 30, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting therein the following:
RECORDS AND LICENSING SERVICES - From the current expense fund there is hereby disappropriated from:
Records and licensing services ($450,593)
The maximum number of additional FTEs for records and licensing services
shall be: 4.00
ER1 EXPENDITURE RESTRICTION:
Of this appropriation, no funds shall be expended to implement a zero tolerance licensing policy for animal control.
((P1 PROVIDED THAT:
Of this appropriation $3,284,511 shall not be expended or encumbered until the council by motion determines with the assistance of a preliminary evaluation by an independent consultant hired by the council, whether the King County animal services program has the leadership, human resources and structural capacity to become a model no-kill program consistent with Ordinance 15801 and Motion 12600, or whether it would be more humane for the county to discontinue animal sheltering services. The execu...
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