File #: 2023-0405    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/7/2023 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/12/2023
Enactment date: 12/19/2023 Enactment #: 19715
Title: AN ORDINANCE changing the name of Highlands Sewer District to Highlands Utility District.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski
Indexes: Sewer Districts, Utilities
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19715, 2. 2023-0405 HighlandsSewerDistrict_NameChange, 3. 2023-0405 Resolution2023.08_HighlandsSewerDistrict, 4. 2023-0405_SR_HighlandsSewerDist
Staff: Sherrie Hsu

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Clerk 10/30/2023

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AN ORDINANCE changing the name of Highlands Sewer District to Highlands Utility District.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  Highlands Sewer District is a special purpose water-sewer district existing in accordance with Title 57 RCW and providing service to The Highlands area in the city of Shoreline in King County.

2.  RCW 57.04.065 provides that a water-sewer district created in accordance with Title 57 RCW may apply to change its name by filing with the county legislative authority a certified copy of a resolution of its board of commissioners adopted by majority vote of all of the members of that board at a regular meeting thereof providing for such a change of name.  The county legislative authority must approve the name change in order for the district to conduct proceedings under the changed name.

3.  The Highlands Sewer District board of commissioners on July 26, 2023, adopted Resolution No. 2023.08 approving a name change to Highlands Utility District to become effective after its adoption.

4.  Highlands Sewer District Resolution No. 2023.08 indicates that the district has determined that in order to avoid the potential confusion that the district provides only sewer service and to better reflect its current scope of services, it has determined that it is in the best interest for the district to change its name to Highlands Utility District.

5.  The clerk of the council received a copy of Highlands Sewer District Resolution No. 2023.08 on October 24, 2023.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The metropolitan King County council approves the change in the

name of Highlands Sewer District to Highlands Utility District in accordance with RCW 57.04.065.