File #: 2024-0305    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/1/2024 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/19/2024
Enactment date: 12/2/2024 Enactment #: 19850
Title: AN ORDINANCE establishing the county hospital capital fund; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.200.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: Funds, Harborview
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19850, 2. 2024-0305 Transmittal Letter, 3. 2024-0305 Fiscal Note, 4. 2024-0305 Legislative Review Form, 5. 2024-0305_SR_HMC2020BondSpec.Rev.Fund 10-29-24, 6. 2024-0305_SR_HMC2020BondSpec.Rev.Fund 11-13-24, 7. 2024-0305_ATT2_AMD1_CountHospCapFund bar (002)khm, 8. 2024-0305_ATT3_AMD T1_CountHospCapFund, 9. 2024-0305_RevisedSR_HMC2020BondSpec.Rev.Fund 11-13-24
Staff: Porter, Samantha

Title

AN ORDINANCE establishing the county hospital capital fund; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.200.

Body

STATEMENT OF FACTS:

On November 3, 2020, county voters passed Proposition 1 with an approving vote of 76.38 percent, authorizing the issuance of series of unlimited tax general obligation bonds to finance a substantial capital improvement program to complete public health, safety and seismic improvements to Harborview Medical Center facilities.

The county hospital capital fund creates a fund for alternative revenue sources to fund projects associated to, but not funded by, the 2020 Proposition 1 bond revenue program and other capital projects at the county hospital.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     NEW SECTION.  SECTION 1.  There is hereby added to K.C.C. chapter 4A.200 a new section to read as follows:

                     A.  There is hereby created the county hospital capital fund.

                     B.  The fund shall be a first tier fund.  It is a capital project fund.

                     C.  The director of the department of executive services shall be the manager of the fund.

                     D.  The fund shall be used to account for the alternative revenue sources to fund projects associated to, but not funded by, the 2020 Proposition 1 bond revenue program and other capital projects at the county hospital.