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Clerk 08/29/2013
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AN ORDINANCE approving seven emergency medical services interagency lease renewal agreements to provide continuing service to council districts five, seven and nine.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KINGCOUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The King County emergency medical services system, publicly known as Medic One, is an integrated publicly funded partnership that provides essential emergency services within King County.
B. In July 2007, King County enacted Ordinance 15861 authorizing a special election regarding continued funding for Medic One emergency medical services. The voters of King County approved this levy which authorizes King County to collect revenues described in the levy for six consecutive years beginning January 1, 2008, and ending December 31, 2013.
C. Expenditures authorized by the levy are described in RCW 84.52.069 including the provision of facilities.
D. The King County Emergency Medical Services Master Plan and its associated location analyses have demonstrated that locating Medic One facilities at fire department facilities provides improved paramedic response to cities.
E. The King County executive has negotiated seven interagency lease renewal agreements to locate Medic One facilities at fire district facilities within Auburn, Des Moines, Enumclaw, Federal Way and Kent and at fire department buildings within the cities of Renton and SeaTac. These agreements allow King County to continue its long standing practice of co-locating Medic One facilities within city facilities. The lease agreements are summarized as follows:
1. Lease 1182 800 square feet at 3700 South 320th Street, Federal Way
1,100 square feet at 2238 South 223rd Street, Des Moines
784square feet at 27010 15th Avenue South, Des Moines;
2. Lease 1288 1,096 square feet at 1101 "D" Street Northeast, Auburn;
3. Lease 1453 1,367 square feet at 15635 Southeast 272nd Street, Kent;
4. Lease 1584 1,280 square feet at 20676 72nd Avenue South, Kent;
5. Lease 1791 1,000 square feet at 39404 244th Avenue Southeast,
Enumclaw;
6. Lease 1887 1,780 square feet at 211 Mill Avenue South, Renton; and
7. Lease 1963 1,800 square feet at 3215 South152nd Street, SeaTac.
F. Renewal of these agreements is subject to continued funding of the Emergency Medical Services operating levy by the electorate of King County in the November 2013 general election and as scheduled thereafter.
G. The King County executive is authorized to lease real property for use by the county as provided by K.C.C. 4.56.186, and consistent with the provisions of K.C.C. 4.04.040 requiring council approval by ordinance of any lease with a term exceeding two years subject to termination for convenience if requiring the payment of funds from the appropriation of subsequent years.
SECTION 2. The King County council, having determined that the proposed seven interagency lease agreements are in the best interest of the public, hereby authorizes the executive to execute the agreements in substantially similar form as provided in Attachments A through G to this ordinance and to take all actions necessary to implement these agreements. All actions up to now taken by county officials, agent and employees consistent with the terms and purposes of the leases are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved.
SECTION 3. If any provision of this ordinance is declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision is null and void and
shall be deemed separable from the remaining provisions of this ordinance and in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this ordinance or of any of the seven leases.