File #: 2010-0084    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 2/8/2010 In control: Environment and Transportation Committee
On agenda: Final action: 5/10/2010
Enactment date: Enactment #: 13220
Title: A MOTION recognizing and endorsing the recommendations of the FARMS Report - Future of Agriculture, Realize Meaningful Solutions Report.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn, Kathy Lambert, Larry Phillips, Jane Hague, Julia Patterson
Indexes: Farm Plans
Attachments: 1. 13220.pdf, 2. 2010-0084 Transmittal Letter.doc, 3. 2010-0084 Attachment to Transmittal Letter--Resource Availablility for Implementation of FARMS Goals and Recommendations--12142009.xls, 4. 2010-0084 Staff Report - FARMS, 5. 2010-0084 Att 2 FARMS Reported dated December 2009, 6. 2010-0084 Att 4 (Farmers Market Report), 7. 2010-0084 Att 3 Financial Resources, 8. 2010-0084 - FARMS presentation (04-27-10), 9. A. FARMS Report--Future of Agriculture, Realize Meaningful Sollutions--December 2009
Drafter
Clerk 01/28/2010
Title
A MOTION recognizing and endorsing the recommendations of the FARMS Report - Future of Agriculture, Realize Meaningful Solutions Report.
Body
WHEREAS, King County has a remarkable legacy of public actions to preserve farmlands and to encourage farming, and
WHEREAS, revenue traditionally used to support agriculture including the county's general fund is under significant fiscal pressure, and
WHEREAS, the county's surface water management fund can be used for drainage and water quality services that benefit agriculture and is also under significant fiscal pressure, and
WHEREAS, there are many high priority competing needs for all funds that could support agriculture, and
WHEREAS, the King County council passed Ordinance 16172 requesting that the department of natural resources and parks and the King County agriculture commission convene a planning process to address the future of agriculture in the agricultural production districts, and
WHEREAS, the report is to be presented to the council no later than January 1, 2010, and
WHEREAS, five public meetings were held, with over two hundred participants attending those meetings; and
WHEREAS, the agriculture commission and department of natural resources and parks staff spent fourteen months gathering, analyzing and synthesizing input from over one thousand farmers and citizens, and
WHEREAS, the agriculture commission worked in partnership with King County staff to develop recommendations and actions needed to sustain economically viable agriculture in King County, and
WHEREAS, the agriculture commission believes implementation of these recommendations is critical to the future of sustainable economically viable agriculture in King County, and
WHEREAS, the recommendations made in the FARMS Report - Future of Agriculture, Realize Meaningful Solutions reflect the major issues and challenges facing agriculture in King County, and
WHEREAS, implementation of these recommendations...

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