File #: 2011-0217    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/16/2011 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 6/27/2011
Enactment date: 7/7/2011 Enactment #: 17125
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Des Moines, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Pacific and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under the 2011 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16984.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Bob Ferguson
Indexes: Conservation Futures, Interlocal Agreement, Open Space
Attachments: 1. 17125.pdf, 2. 2011-0217 Fiscal note.xls, 3. 2011-0217 Transmittal letter.doc, 4. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement Between King County and the City of ______for Open Space Acquisition Projects, 5. B. Conservation Futures (CFT) Project Descriptions, 6. 2011-0217 Staff Report - CFT.doc, 7. A. Amendment to the Conservation Futures Interlocal Cooperation Agreement Between King County and the City of ______for Open Space Acquisition Projects, 8. B. Conservation Futures (CFT) Project Descriptions
Staff: Reed, Mike
Drafter
Clerk 05/02/2011
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Des Moines, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Pacific and Seattle for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under the 2011 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16984.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County conservation futures tax levy funds are collected throughout King County as a dedicated portion of the property tax for the acquisition of open space and resource lands.
2. Ordinance 14714 established procedures for the annual allocation of conservation futures tax levy funds, which direct the conservation futures citizens' committee to make funding recommendations to the King County executive to consider for inclusion in the annual budget ordinance.
3. The executive received and considered the conservation futures citizens' committee project funding recommendations and included them in his transmittal of the 2011 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16984, in which the council appropriated 2011 conservation futures funds to the city open space projects listed and described in Attachment B to this ordinance.
4. King County desires to disburse conservation futures funds to the suburban cities and the city of Seattle, and to do so it must sign conservation futures interlocal cooperation agreements or amend existing conservation futures interlocal agreements with these jurisdictions.
5. The county and the cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into and execute amendments to interlocal cooperation agreements containing language substantially similar to that in Attachment A to this ordinance, necessary for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy...

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