Drafter
Clerk 05/06/2004
title
AN ORDINANCE relating to arts and culture in King County; amending the allocation of hotel-motel tax revenues in the King County arts and cultural development fund; making technical corrections; and amending Ordinance 14440, Section 3, as amended and K.C.C. 4.42.025.
body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 14440, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.42.025 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Hotel-motel revenue allocations for cultural programs.
A. Hotel-motel revenues deposited in the King County arts and cultural development fund, created under K.C.C. 4.08.190, shall be administered by the cultural development authority.
B. Hotel-motel revenues deposited in the King County arts and cultural development fund shall be used to support the cultural programs described in K.C.C. chapter 2.48: cultural facilities; cultural education; special projects; and sustained support. The hotel-motel revenues in the fund shall also support related administration of those programs by the cultural development authority.
C. Through December 31, 2012, at least forty percent of the hotel-motel revenues appropriated to the arts and cultural development fund and transferred to the cultural development authority shall be deposited in an account and used to establish cultural endowment. Principle and interest shall be managed by the cultural development authority in accordance with RCW 67.28.180(3)(a).
D. After allocating the hotel-motel portion of the arts and cultural development fund to administer cultural programs and to build the cultural endowment, the cultural development authority shall divide the hotel-motel revenues in the arts and cultural development fund between arts programs and heritage programs, but at least twenty percent of the revenue shall be allocated to heritage programs.
E. Beginning January 1, 2002, outstanding debt service obligations shall be financed from hotel-motel revenues in the arts and cultural development fund. The obligations incurred before December 31, 2002, shall be managed by the department of executive services and paid by the cultural development authority.
F. After deducting the amount necessary to meet debt service obligations, the cultural development authority shall allocate hotel-motel revenues intended to support arts programs from the arts and cultural development fund as follows:
1. For cultural facilities and sustained support, ((thirty-nine)) eighty percent of the remaining arts program revenues, but sustained support shall receive at least thirty percent of the eighty percent; and
2. ((For cultural facilities, thirty-nine percent of remaining arts program revenues;
3.)) For special projects and cultural education, ((thirteen)) twenty percent of the remaining arts program revenues, but special projects shall receive at least thirty-four percent of the twenty percent((; and
4. For cultural education, nine percent of remaining arts program revenues)).
G. After deducting the amount necessary to meet debt service allocations, the cultural development authority shall allocate hotel-motel revenues intended to support heritage programs from the arts and cultural development fund as follows:
1. For cultural facilities and sustained support, seventy percent of remaining heritage program revenues, but sustained support shall receive at least twenty percent of the seventy percent; and
2. For special projects and cultural education, ((twenty)) thirty percent of the remaining heritage program revenues, but special projects shall receive at least thirty-four percent of the thirty percent((; and
3. For cultural education, ten percent of remaining heritage program revenues)).
H. Hotel-motel revenues from the arts and cultural development fund shall not be used to support services and programs to be provided by the King County landmarks commission for land use regulation and archaeological resource management purposes as described in K.C.C. chapter 20.62.
SECTION 2. This ordinance is remedial in nature and applies retroactively to moneys distributed beginning January 1, 2004, and thereafter.