Drafter
Clerk 07/16/2025
Title
A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the third annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids initiative, in accordance with Ordinance 19354.
Body
WHEREAS, King County voters approved the best starts for kids levy in 2015 to fund prevention and early intervention strategies to improve the health and well-being of children, youth, families and communities, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 19267, providing for the submission of a renewed best starts for kids levy to the qualified electors of King County, was adopted by the metropolitan King County council on April 20, 2021, and signed by the executive on April 30, 2021, and
WHEREAS, King County voters approved King County Proposition No. 1 on August 3, 2021, authorizing a six-year renewal of the Best Starts for Kids levy to plan, provide, administer, and evaluate promotion, prevention, and early interventions and capital investments for King County children, youth, families and communities, and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Ordinance 19267, the executive transmitted to the council for review and adoption an implementation plan that identified the strategies to be funded, outcomes to be achieved, and framework to measure the performance of levy strategies, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 19354 adopted the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan, dated October 13, 2021, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 19267 and Ordinance 19354 require an annual report on levy expenditures, services, and outcomes to be transmitted to the council, with the first report due by July 15, 2023, and additional yearly reports to be transmitted no later than July 15 of each year through 2027, and
WHEREAS, the third annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids initiative, entitled 2024 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report, is submitted by the executive;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The receipt of the third annual report on the second Best Starts for Kids initiative,
entitled 2024 Best Starts for Kids Annual Report, Attachment A to this motion, in accordance with Ordinance 19354, is hereby acknowledged.