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A MOTION adopting the King County Vision, Mission, Guiding Principles, Goals and Strategic Innovation Priorities.
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WHEREAS, county government must continuously improve its management and accountability so residents receive maximum value for their tax dollars, and
WHEREAS, in 2008, Ordinance 16202 created a countywide performance and accountability system to promote a culture of accountability within King County government, and
WHEREAS, in 2010, the executive proposed and the King County council adopted Ordinance 16897 approving the King County Strategic Plan, 2010-2014, which established the broad policy and management framework to unify and inform decision making across all branches of King County government, and
WHEREAS, in 2012, Ordinance 17410 established a council and executive interbranch performance management action team to review and make recommendations on how to better translate the broad goals and objectives of the Strategic Plan to agency operational and budgeting processes, and
WHEREAS, in June 2014, Ordinance 17834 established a new performance management and accountability system and enacted the recommendations for the performance management action team through the updating and rewrite of K.C.C. chapter 2.10, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 17834 requires the executive to transmit legislation containing the King County vision, mission, guiding principles, goals and strategic innovation priorities for adoption by the King County council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
A. The King County Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Guiding Principles and Goals and King County's Goals and Vision, 2015, Attachments A and B to this motion, are hereby adopted.
B. The council requests the executive to establish cross-functional strategic teams consistent with K.C.C. chapter 2.10 for each of the goals identified in Attachment A to this motion in order to identify objectives for each of the identified goals and to carry out the work specified in K.C.C. 2.10.104.
C. The council further requests the executive to collaborate with the council to
develop work plans for planning/policy gap areas identified in King County's Goals and Vision, 2015, Attachment B to this motion.