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Clerk 3/15/2007
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AN ORDINANCE creating the Patterson Creek Basin citizens advisory committee; providing for transition of representation to the new committee; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 2.36.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Proposed Ordinance 2006-0334 would create a countywide flood control zone district ("FCZD").
2. Under state law, a new countywide FCZD cannot be created that would overlap with existing districts. Therefore, existing FCZDs within King County are proposed for dissolution, including the Patterson Creek FCZD.
3. The advisory committee of the Patterson Creek FCZD has been meeting actively for decades and has a strong track record of partnering with the county and other parties to complete flooding, water quality, and fish habitat projects.
4. If the Patterson Creek FCZD is dissolved, a very effective mechanism for making county decision-makers aware of community concerns and recommendations for dealing with flooding, water quality, and fish habitat concerns within the Patterson Creek basin would be lost.
5. There is value in having an advisory committee that continues to advise the executive and council on both the nature of problems and recommendations for solutions to flooding, water quality, and habitat problems and to act as a first point of contact for community expertise about flooding, water quality, and fish habitat issues in the Patterson Creek basin.
6. There is also value in maintaining a seamless transition to the Patterson Creek citizen advisory committee by continuing the appointments of the current representatives of the existing advisory committee of the Patterson Creek FCZD as members of the newly created Patterson Creek citizen advisory committee.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
NEW SECTION. SECTION 1. There is hereby added K.C.C. chapter 2.36 a new section to read as follows.
A. There is hereby created a Patterson Creek Basin citizen advisory committee, hereina...

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