File #: 2018-0182    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/2/2018 In control: Planning, Rural Service and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 4/23/2018
Enactment date: 4/30/2018 Enactment #: 18714
Title: AN ORDINANCE changing the name of King County Water District No. 111 to Lake Meridian Water District.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
Indexes: Water and Sewer Districts
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18714.pdf, 2. 2018-0182_SR_KC_Water_District_111_Name_Change.docx, 3. 2018-0182_ATT2_KC_Water_District_111_Resolution.pdf
Staff: Rose, Terra

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Clerk 03/29/2018

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AN ORDINANCE changing the name of King County Water District No. 111 to Lake Meridian Water District.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  King County Water District No. 111 is a special purpose water district existing in accordance with Title 57 RCW and providing municipal water service to the East Kent Plateau/Lake Meridian area of King County.

2.  RCW 57.04.065 provides that a water district created in accordance with Title 57 RCW may apply to change its name by filing with the county legislative authority a certified copy of a resolution of its board of commissioners adopted by majority vote of all of the members of that board at a regular meeting thereof providing for such a change of name.  The county legislative authority must approve the name change in order for the district to conduct proceedings under the changed name.

3.  The King County Water District No. 111 board of commissioners on February 22, 2018, adopted Resolution No. 625-02-18 approving a name change to Lake Meridian Water District to become effective January 1, 2019.

4.  King County Water District No. 111 Resolution No. 625-02-18 indicates that the district desires to change its name to Lake Meridian Water District to identify with the most significant geographic feature within the district and to avoid confusion and misidentification as a subagency of King County.

5.  The clerk of the council received a copy of King County Water District No. 111 Resolution No. 625-02-18 on March 2, 2018.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The metropolitan King County council approves the change in the

name of King County Water District No. 111 to Lake Meridian Water District to become effective January 1, 2019, in accordance with RCW 57.04.065.