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Clerk 08/20/2002
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AN ORDINANCE implementing a flexible response budgeting policy for the surface water management capital improvement program (CIP) that allows current year budget authorization at the fund total rather than the CIP project level that authorizes advance appropriation authority for anticipated grant funds, subject to conditions, and that authorizes grant funding contingency for surface water management construction fund number 3292 and open space non-bond fund number 3522, subject to certain conditions; amending Ordinance 12076, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.04.020, Ordinance 12076, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.04.030, Ordinance 12076, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.04.200 and Ordinance 7159, Section 13, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.04.250 and adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 4.04.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Because surface water management projects are part of natural drainage systems, which are dynamic and subject to sudden changes from floods and other unpredictable events, it is inherently difficult to estimate their costs and schedules years in advance.
2. The challenge of these estimates has grown since the federal government listed Puget Sound Chinook salmon under the Endangered Species Act, which has made project permitting more time-consuming and which has also led to an increased number of projects involving partnerships.
3. King County is a regional leader in constructing innovative and experimental projects to improve habitat and reduce flood hazards, but this very innovation also adds unpredictability to projects.
4. Conditions 1 through 3 in this statement of facts frequently cause a need to postpone, accelerate or modify surface water management projects after they have been approved by the county council.
5. This ordinance adds a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4.04 to avoid delays in the construction of surface water management projects. It establishes procedures to provide the wat...
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