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Clerk 10/08/2020

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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the use of an interlocal agreement template for city entities seeking to enter into an agreement for jail services with King County.

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                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  Findings:

                     A.  In 2002, King County entered into an interlocal agreement for jail services with most cities in the county ("the 2002 agreement").

                     B.  In 2010, King County and twenty-four cities ("the extension cities") signed an amendment to the 2002 agreement that improved cost recovery for the county and extended the term of the 2002 agreement to 2016 ("the 2016 agreement").

                     C.  In the fall of 2010, the county and the cities that signed the 2016 agreement began negotiations on possible improvements to the model for calculating the jail fees and, for any interested cities, other provisions for creating a long-term, durable arrangement for misdemeanant jail services.

                     D.  Working with a group of the extension cities on the jail agreement administration group, two new contracting options were developed to provide a range of choices.  One option ("the 2030 agreement") has a term that runs through 2030 and is modeled after the long-term, durable agreement with the city of Seattle authorized by the council in Ordinance 17199 on September 26, 2011 and signed by the Executive on September 29, 2011.  To date, no other city has expressed interest in signing the agreement.

                     E.  The second option, which replaced the 2016 agreement, has a term that runs through 2020 ("the 2020 agreement").  Its use with extension cities was authorized by the council in Ordinance 17239 on December 16, 2011, signed by the Executive on December 16, 2011.  On December 16, 2013, the council, in Ordinance 17718, ratified the execution of the 2020 agreement with the cities of Burien, Enumclaw and Federal Way.  Ordinance 17718 was signed by the Executive on December 19,2013.

                     F.  Executive and council staff developed a new template agreement, authorized by the council in Ordinance 17792 on April 22, 2014, that was used for additional cities seeking to enter into an agreement for jail services with King County ("the 2020 agreement template").  Ordinance 17792 was enacted April 30^th, 2014 by signature of the Executive.  The 2020 agreement template is substantially similar to the 2020 agreement.

                     G.  All cities who have signed onto these contracts will have expired contracts as of December 31, 2020.

                     H.  The Executive has now developed a new agreement template that is substantially similar to the 2020 agreement template and is proposed as a two-year contract from January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2022.  

                     SECTION 2.  The executive is hereby authorized to execute interlocal agreements

for jail services with any city in King County, in substantially the form of Attachment A to this ordinance.