Drafter
Clerk 03/15/2023
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AN ORDINANCE establishing a workgroup to develop a program plan for the 2020 bond to support facility and infrastructure improvements at Harborview Medical Center and requiring monthly status reports.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Harborview Medical Center ("Harborview") is a comprehensive regional health care facility owned by King County and, in accordance with the hospital services agreement between the Harborview Medical Center, the University of Washington and King County, is operated by UW Medicine and is overseen by a thirteen-member board of trustees.
2. Harborview is the only Level 1 Trauma Center for adults and children serving a four-state region that includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Washington, and provides specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients. Harborview is maintained as a public hospital by King County to improve the health and well-being of the entire community and to provide quality healthcare to the most vulnerable.
3. Motion 15183 created a planning process for a potential bond and established the Harborview leadership group, which produced and transmitted to the council an April 1, 2020, recommendation report outlining the size, scope and total cost of a bond to make health and safety improvements to the medical center. In that report, the leadership group recommended the following bond program components: a new tower to increase bed capacity; a new behavioral health building; existing hospital space renovations; improvements to Harborview Hall; upgrades to the Center Tower; improvements at the Pioneer Square Clinic; demolition of the East Clinic building; and other costs. Included as part of the recommendations were the estimated costs for each component, with an estimated cost for the overall recommended bond program of $1.74 billion.
4. Based on those recommendations, Ordinance 19117 placed a $1.74 billion twenty-year bond on the November 3, 2020, ballot to fund facility and infrastruct...

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