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Clerk 02/06/2014
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AN ORDINANCE approving a lease for public health clinic facilities to provide continuing public health services in council district seven.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County provides essential public health services and facilities to the citizens of King County in cooperation with partnering health care providers throughout King County.
2. The King County executive is authorized to lease county -owned real property as provided by K.C.C. 4.56.180.
3. The King County executive has negotiated with Healthpoint Ltd. for it to lease space in the county-owned Federal Way Public Health Center, located at 33431 13th Place South, Federal Way, within council district seven, and referred to as Lease 1747.
4. Under K.C.C. 4.56.150.E.1, the county may enter into lease agreements with bona fide nonprofit corporations that provide constitutes a benefit to the public. Agreements with these types of lessees are exempt from otherwise required leasing provisions, including receiving the fair market value rent for the leased premises.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. Healthpoint Ltd.is a nonprofit corporation with the mission of strengthening communities and improving people's health by delivering quality health care services, breaking down barriers and providing access to all. As a bona fide nonprofit corporation organized and registered with the state of Washington to provide health services, Healthpoint Ltd. provides a benefit to the public in accordance with K.C.C. 4.56.150.E.1.
B. The parties executed the lease on or about May 31, 2013, with an effective date of January 1, 2012. However, there are some technical and administrative changes that should be made to the lease to clarify mutual obligations. These issues would be to include:
1. The referenced but missing arbitration provision; and
2. The county's current nondiscrimination provision.
SECTION 2. The King County council, having determined that the proposed lease agreement with Healthpoint Ltd is in the best interest of the public, hereby approves the lease provided as Attachment A to this ordinance and authorizes the executive to take all actions necessary to implement this lease contingent upon the execution of a lease amendment in substantial the same form as Attachment B to this ordinance. Upon execution of the amendment, the actions taken by county officials, agent and employees consistent with the terms and purposes of the lease will be hereby ratified, confirmed and approved.
SECTION 3. If any provision of this ordinance is declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision is null and void and
shall be deemed separable from the remaining provisions of this ordinance and in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this ordinance or the lease.