Drafter
Clerk 06/30/2025
Title
A MOTION acknowledging receipt of a Critical Areas Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan, in response to the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 16, Proviso P1.
Body
WHEREAS, the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 16, Proviso P1, states that $100,000 of the appropriation "shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a Critical Areas Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan and a motion that should acknowledge receipt of the plan, and a motion acknowledging receipt of a plan is passed by the council. The motion should reference the subject matter, the proviso's ordinance, ordinance section, and proviso number in both the title and body of the motion.
The plan shall include, but not be limited to, discussion and analysis of what would be needed to develop and implement a critical areas monitoring and adaptive management program consistent with guidance from Washington State Department of Commerce in chapter 7 of the critical areas ordinance handbook. Accordingly, the plan should address three types of monitoring: permit implementation, effectiveness, and ecological validation. Specifically, the plan shall include:
A. An analysis of the one-time monetary and staffing resources needed to develop the program;
B. An analysis of the ongoing monetary and staffing resources needed to implement the program;
C. Based on the needs analysis completed in response to subsections A. and B. of this proviso, a detailed timeline for developing and implementing the program;
D. An analysis of whether all permits and critical areas or a subset of permits and critical areas should be monitored through the program; and
E. An analysis of how phasing implementation of the program, such as applying it to streams and wetlands first, and to other types of critical areas later, would impact the needed resources and the timeline, as well as any impacts to the environment that might result from phasing the work," and
WHEREAS, additionally, the proviso states that the executive should electronically file the plan and a motion required by this proviso by June 30, 2025, with the clerk of the council, who shall retain an electronic copy and provide an electronic copy to all councilmembers, the council chief of staff, and the lead staff for the local services and land use committee or its successor, and
WHEREAS, the King County executive prepared a Critical Area Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan that includes discussion and analysis of what would be needed to develop and implement a critical areas monitoring and adaptive management program consistent with guidance from Washington state Department of Commerce in chapter 7 of the critical areas ordinance handbook and the plan addresses three types of monitoring: permit implementation, effectiveness, and ecological validation, and
WHEREAS, the King County executive hereby transmits to the council the Critical Areas Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan required in Ordinance 19861, Section 16, Proviso P1;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The King County council hereby acknowledges receipt of the Critical Areas Monitoring and Adaptive Management Program plan, Attachment A to this motion.