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Clerk 05/05/2003
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A MOTION confirming an annual reporting process on the status of conservation futures-funded projects, including the status of uncompleted conservation futures projects that have extended beyond two years of their authorization date with unexpended fund balances, and criteria for recommending the disappropriation of funds from uncompleted projects, or the reallocation of funds to previously approved projects with funding shortfalls, or to new projects.
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WHEREAS, by Motion 11439 request number "2" the King County council requested the conservation futures citizens committee to make a recommendation regarding an annual project status report and criteria for reallocation of funds from certain uncompleted projects to previously approved projects or to new projects, and
WHEREAS, the conservation futures citizens committee has met in the fall of 2002 and forwarded such a recommendation by letter dated November 22, 2002, to the executive and council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the council of King County:
Annual project reporting process: The conservation futures citizens committee will request project progress information from jurisdictions by December 31 of each year and jurisdictions will furnish their reports to the committee by January 31. Any jurisdiction with a funded conservation futures project that has not been completed within twenty-four months of its original creation shall be required in its annual report to request a either one-year extension, a project scope change, or project abandonment. The citizens committee will meet annually in March to discuss recommendations for such uncompleted projects and may recommend a twelve-month extension, a project scope change, or project abandonment for such projects. Recommendations regarding uncompleted projects will be included in the in the citizen committee's annual project progress report, which the committee will forward to the King County council and exe...

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