File #: 2025-0106    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: In Committee
File created: 4/1/2025 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to renew an interlocal agreement between King County and the cities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, and SeaTac for stormwater education in the Highline Public School District.
Sponsors: De'Sean Quinn
Indexes: Burien, City of, Des Moines, City of, Highline, Interlocal Agreement, King County, Normandy Park, City of, Schools, Sea-Tac, City of, Storm Water Facilities
Attachments: 1. A. Interlocal Agreement Between the Cities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park and SeaTac and King County for Stormwater Education Program (Stormfest), 2. 2025-0106 Transmittal Letter, 3. 2025-0106 Fiscal Note, 4. 2025-0106 Legislative Review Form
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Clerk 03/25/2025
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to renew an interlocal agreement between King County and the cities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, and SeaTac for stormwater education in the Highline Public School District.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In 2018, the city of Burien received a Washington state Department of Ecology grant for the purpose of implementing an annual outdoor, interactive stormwater education program called StormFest for all Highline Public School District sixth grade students. StormFest partners have annually hosted the event, including adaptions during COVID-19 restrictions.
2. City and partner staff host the three-day events in June. The events include a volunteer and interpreter training day, followed by the main three-day event a week later. The curriculum is adapted to accommodate students' language, physical, and intellectual needs, featuring bilingual education stations, a beach-accessible wheelchair, transportation support, and special education accommodations.
3. Since 2018, the event has engaged approximately nine thousand five hundred sixth-grade students, including seventh graders who missed the event due to COVID-19 restrictions, along with dozens of community members, interpreters, and professional staff.
4. The StormFest program for sixth graders of the Highline School District helps the cities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, and SeaTac, as well as unincorporated King County, meet National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit requirements for education and outreach. The program also supports the development of programs and opportunities for public participation, including engagement with overburdened communities.
5. In 2025, the Highline Public Schools District serves over eighteen thousand students, thirty-eight percent are English language learners, sixteen percent are students with disabilities, and sixty percent eligible for the school lunch program. Sixth g...

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