File #: 2024-0236    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 8/20/2024 In control: Regional Policy Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE approving the King County Doors Open Program implementation plan, required by Ordinance 19710, Section 9, to govern the expenditure of the cultural access sales and use tax from 2024 through 2031 to achieve outcomes related to public and educational benefits and economic support for arts, science, and heritage organizations; amending section 1 of this ordinance, repealing Attachment A to this ordinance, and establishing an effective date.
Sponsors: Claudia Balducci, Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: Arts, Culture, Open Doors Program, Schools, Taxes
Attachments: 1. A. Doors Open Implementation Plan, dated November 2024, 2. 2B. Doors Open Program Implementation Plan for 2024-2031, dated November 4, 2024, 3. A. Doors Open Implementation Plan, 4. 2024-0236_SR_DoorsOpenIP_102124, 5. 2024-0236_SR_DoorsOpenIP_092424_final, 6. 2024-0236_SR_DoorsOpen082724, 7. 2024-0236 Transmittal Letter, 8. 2024-0236 Fiscal Note, 9. 2024-0236 Legislative Review Form, 10. 2024-0236 Doors Open Implementation Plan Review Schedule, 11. 2024-0236 Doors Open Implementation Plan on a Page, 12. 2024-0236 Doors Open COW PPT 8-27-24 v2, 13. 2024-0236 4Culture 2024-2025 grant deadlines, 14. Conceptual striker outline public, 15. 2024-0236 ATT2 AMD1, 16. 2024-0236 ATT2A. Doors Open Implementation Plan, November 2024, 17. 2024-0236 ATT3 Redline of AMD1A, 18. 2024-0236 ATT4 Doors Open Implementation Plan Review Schedule, 19. 2024-0236_SR_DoorsOpenIP_110424, 20. 1 - 11-4-24 COW AMD Tracker Updated, 21. 2 - Amd1to1_GZ_ED11-1, 22. 3 - Amd2to1_grant contract inflator clarification_v2 bar_final, 23. 3 - Amd2to1_grant contract inflator clarification_v2 bar_final, 24. 2024-0236 Amendment 2 (attaches Attachment 2B)_bar, 25. 2024-0236 Title Amendment bar2
Related files: 2023-0343

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Clerk 07/29/2024

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AN ORDINANCE approving the King County Doors Open Program implementation plan, required by Ordinance 19710, Section 9, to govern the expenditure of the cultural access sales and use tax from 2024 through 2031 to achieve outcomes related to public and educational benefits and economic support for arts, science, and heritage organizations; amending section 1 of this ordinance, repealing Attachment A to this ordinance, and establishing an effective date.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  The Washington state Legislature declared in RCW 36.160.010 that there is a need to provide public and educational benefits and economic support for arts, science, and heritage organizations.

2.  The King County council, through Ordinance 19710, created the Doors Open Program to support arts, science, and heritage organizations, and approved a new one-tenth of one percent sales tax to fund the Doors Open Program.

3.  Ordinance 19710, Section 9, requires the executive, in consultation with 4Culture, to transmit the implementation plan and an ordinance to approve the plan to the council no later than July 15, 2024.  The implementation plan, once effective, will govern the expenditure of the sales and use tax’s proceeds until the tax expires in 2031.  The required implementation plan is Attachment A to this ordinance.

4. Ordinance 19710, Section 9, enumerates specific requirements for the implementation plan.  The Doors Open Program Implementation Plan for 2024-2031, dated November 2024, Attachment A to this ordinance, responds to the requirements set out by Ordinance 19710 Section 9, by:  itemizing start-up funding costs incurred or to be incurred by 4Culture and the county; establishing guidelines for eligible expenditures for each Doors Open Program element; providing detailed program descriptions of the elements of the Doors Open Program and a framework for 4Culture administration of these programs; and providing a timeline for the Doors Open Program Assessment Report that will address the effectiveness of the Doors Open Program funding.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The Doors Open Program Implementation Plan for 2024-2031, dated, November 2024, Attachment A to this ordinance is hereby approved to govern the

expenditure of the cultural access sales and use tax proceeds as authorized under Ordinance 19710.

                     SECTION 2.  Section 1 of this ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:

                     The Doors Open Program Implementation Plan for 2024-2031, dated November 4, 2024, Attachment ((A)) 2B to this ordinance is hereby approved to govern the expenditure of the cultural access sales and use tax proceeds as authorized under Ordinance 19710.

                     SECTION 3.  Attachment A to this ordinance is hereby repealed.

                     SECTION 4. Sections 2 and 3 of this ordinance take effect on the effective date of Ordinance XXXXX (Proposed Ordinance 2024-0377).