File #: 2013-0012    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 1/14/2013 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 2/11/2013
Enactment date: 2/21/2013 Enactment #: 17524
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Bothell and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 17349.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips
Indexes: Bothell, City of, Interlocal Agreement, levy, Seattle, City of, Taxes
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17524.pdf, 2. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement, 3. B. Conservations Futures (CFT) Project Descriptions, 4. 2013-0012 Fiscal Note.xls, 5. 2013-0012 transmittal letter.doc, 6. 2013-0012 staff report.doc, 7. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement, 8. B. Conservations Futures (CFT) Project Descriptions
Staff: Bourguignon, Mary
Drafter
Clerk 12/21/2012
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Bothell and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 17349.
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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.  The executive received and considered the conservation futures citizens' committee funding recommendations and included them in the second fiscal quarter 2012 annual budget supplemental ordinance, Ordinance 17349, in which the King County council appropriated 2012 conservation futures funds or modified project scopes for the city open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordiannce.
5.  King County desires to disburse conservation futures funds to the cities of Bothell and 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 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 conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinances 17349.