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A MOTION approving a plan to restructure the public benefit rating system program in accordance with 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance 18409, Section 81, Proviso P1.

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                     WHEREAS, the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 81, Proviso P1, states that one hundred thousand dollars shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a plan to restructure the public benefit rating system program and a motion approving the plan is passed by the council, and

                     WHEREAS, the water and land resources division of the department of natural resources and parks administers the public benefit rating system program and produced the attached plan exploring strategies to implement a sliding scale application fee and strategies to increase program efficiency, and

                     WHEREAS, the plan explores four different program application fee options and provides a summary of administrative efficiencies realized since the program's inception and new efficiencies being proposed, and

                     WHEREAS, the executive is recommending a change to the application fee level and structure to make the fee a sliding scale fee based on the acreage of the property to be enrolled in the public benefit rating system program, and

                     WHEREAS, the executive has transmitted to the council the requested plan and motion;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     The plan to restructure the public benefit rating system program, submitted as Attachment A to this motion in accordance with Ordinance 18409, Section 81, Proviso P1, is hereby approved.