File #: 2024-0263    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: In Committee
File created: 10/22/2024 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an interlocal agreement with the city of Kent for the inspection and maintenance of the Rock Creek Bridge.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
Indexes: Executive, Interlocal Agreement, Kent, City of, King County, Rock Creek Bridge
Attachments: 1. A. Interlocal Agreement Regarding Project to Inspect, Maintain, and Repair the Rock Creek Bridge (Bridge #Kent-21), 2. 2024-0263 Transmittal Letter, 3. 2024-0263 fiscal note, 4. 2024-0263 Legislative Review Form

Drafter

Clerk 08/19/2024

Title

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an interlocal agreement with the city of Kent for the inspection and maintenance of the Rock Creek Bridge.

Body

STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  The city of Kent has completed the construction of the Rock Creek Bridge, Kent-21 ("the bridge").

2.  The Bridge is located over Rock Creek at Southeast Summit Landsburg Road, placing approximately three-quarters of the bridge in the political boundaries of the city of Kent and the remaining one-quarter in unincorporated King County.

3.  King County and the city of Kent are required to maintain the bridge by performing bridge inspections and minor repairs to address conditions identified during the inspections.  To preserve the structural integrity of the bridge, major repairs will sometimes be required.

4.  It is in the best interest of King County and the city of Kent to work cooperatively and delineate responsibilities by each agency to ensure the continued safe operation of the bridge through inspections, minor repairs, and major repairs.

5.  King County and the city of Kent are municipal corporations under the laws of the State of Washington and are entitled to utilize chapter 39.34 RCW to enter into an interlocal agreement to mutually carry out statutory duties.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The executive is hereby authorized to execute an interlocal agreement with the city of Kent for the inspection and maintenance of the Rock Creek

Bridge, Kent-21, located partially in King County and partially in the city of Kent, substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance.