File #: 2022-0297    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: In Committee
File created: 7/26/2022 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE determining the King County Fire Protection District No. 24 is inactive under state law and it is in the public interest to dissolve King County Fire Protection District No. 24.
Sponsors: Dave Upthegrove
Indexes: Fire Dept, Fire Protection
Attachments: 1. 2022-0297_0298_0299_0301_0303_Staff Report with Attachments, 2. 2022-0297, -0298, -0299, -0301 & -0303 INVOICE & AFFIDAVIT, 3. Inactive Districts Letter to KCC_2023
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AN ORDINANCE determining the King County Fire Protection District No. 24 is inactive under state law and it is in the public interest to dissolve King County Fire Protection District No. 24.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. Under RCW 36.96.020, once a county legislative authority has been informed that a special purpose district appears to be inactive, that legislative authority is required to hold public hearings and determine whether or not that special purpose district is "inactive." After a finding of inactivity, the legislative authority may then also determine whether it is in the public interest to dissolve such an inactive special purpose district.
B. In accordance with RCW 36.96.020, the director of the department of elections, provided written notice to the King County council on May 31, 2022, of apparent inactive special purpose districts located in the county. According to the department of elections, it has no records that the King County Fire Protection District No. 24 ("the district") has held any election for commissioners since 2013 or carried out any of the special purposes or functions for which it was formed for nearly seven years. The department of elections concluded the district appears to be "inactive" under RCW 36.96.010(3).
C. Subsequent to the May 31, 2022, notice from the department of elections, on further information, two of the three commissioners conducted business, which consisted of adopting a resolution authorizing the execution of deeds to transfer assets that the city of SeaTac acquired when the city annexed part of the district's area in the early 1990s.
D. In a report published on October 28, 2021, the Office of the Washington State Auditor declared the district as "unauditable" on the basis that the district did not submit annual financial reports to the office between January 2014 and December 2020 and did not respond to the office's inquiries and requests for f...

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