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Clerk 02/22/2017

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AN ORDINANCE approving grant funding allocation for projects funded through the WaterWorks grant program, Round 2, in accordance with Ordinance 18261.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  Ordinance 18031, as amended by Ordinance 18261, established the grant award criteria and process for the WaterWorks grant program in accordance with the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 110, Proviso P2, and authorized the release of $2,000,000.

2.  Attachment A to Ordinance 18261 contains the implementation guidelines for the WaterWorks grant program, including the project criteria, eligibility, project selection process and administration of grants; the implementation guidelines provide for a grant ranking committee to review, rank and recommend projects for funding and for the wastewater treatment division of the department of natural resources and parks to administer and staff the program.

3.  As described in Attachment A to Ordinance 18261, projects approved for funding must meet eligibility criteria for water quality improvements, and the grant ranking committee is to review, rank and recommend to the King County executive the projects to be approved for funding, based upon the eligibility criteria and ability of the applicants to demonstrate water quality benefits and implementation strength.

4.  The grant ranking committee convened three times in June 2016 and July 2016 to review and rank grant proposals, and has recommended funding for the projects listed in section 1 of this ordinance, based upon the eligibility criteria, water quality benefits and implementation strength.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The King County council authorizes the funding of WaterWorks projects for Round 2, 2016, totaling $850,000, as follows:

                     A.  YMCA of Greater Seattle - Earth Service Corps:  $33,200 for "Youth in Action:  Stewardship, Education, and Leadership";

                     B.  IslandWood:  $200,000 for "Community Waters - Connecting Stormwater Curriculum to Local Watersheds";

                     C.  Environmental Science Center:  $50,000 for "Salmon Heroes-Watershed Education and Water Quality Training for Underserved Students";

                     D.  Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust:  $25,000 for "Greenway Education Project";

                     E.  City of Redmond:  $64,000 for "Street Sweeping for Water Quality";

                     F.  Environmental Coalition of South Seattle:  $55,000 for "Environmental Stewards Program";

                     G.  Sustainability Ambassadors:  $89,969 for "Green/Duwamish Project Design Lab";

                     H.  Seattle Tilth Association:  $50,000 for "The Watershed Stewards Project";

                     I.  University of Washington Bothell:  $45,903 for "Investigation on Use of Mycoremediation to Reduce Loading of Pathogenic Bacteria to North Creek";

                     J.  City of Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities:  $94,200 for "Bioretention to Underground Injection Control Well Water Quality Monitoring";

                     K.  City of Bellevue:  $100,000 for "Kelsey Creek Stormwater Quality Retrofit";

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                     L.  Salmon-Safe:  $42,728 for "Salmon-Safe Sammamish."