File #: 2013-0469    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/4/2013 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/2/2013
Enactment date: 12/13/2013 Enactment #: 17704
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Kent and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinances 17232, 17349 and 17619.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips
Indexes: Interlocal Agreement
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17704.pdf, 2. 2013-0469 Legislative Review Form.pdf, 3. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement, 4. B. Conservation Futures Project Descriptions, 5. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement, 6. B. Conservation Futures Project Descriptions, 7. 2013-0469 transmittal letter.docx, 8. 2013-0469 fiscal note.xlsx, 9. 2013-0469 Staff Report - CFT ILAs.docx
Staff: Bourguignon, Mary
Drafter
Clerk 10/25/2013
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Kent and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinances 17232, 17349 and 17619.
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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. Applications are posted on the conservation futures program web page on the King County website.
4. The executive received and considered the conservation futures citizens' committee funding recommendations and included them in his transmittal of Ordinances 17232, 17349 and 17619, by which the King County council has appropriated conservation futures funds for the open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordinance.
5. King County desires to disburse conservation futures funds to the city of Kent and the city of Seattle, and to do so it must sign conservation futures interlocal cooperation agreements or amend existing conservation futures interlocal agreements with these jurisdictions.
6. The county and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal cooperation 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 conserva...

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