Drafter
Clerk 02/10/2021
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement between King County and the city of Seattle concerning the administration of the area agency on aging.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The city of Seattle, Aging and Disability Services, is the designated Area Agency on Aging for the Seattle-King County Planning and Services Area pursuant to Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended.
2. In response to Title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, Washington state Department of Social and Health Services requires Area Agencies on Aging to define local partnerships and formal collaborations.
3. For the Seattle-King County Planning and Services Area, the most-recent agreement among three partners to serve as the sponsors of the Area Agency on Aging was signed in 2001. The partners to this agreement to serve as the Seattle-King County Area Agency on Aging were the city of Seattle, King County's department of community and human services and United Way of King County.
4. In 2018, due to changes in its strategic direction, the United Way of King County concluded its role in the partnership.
5. Public health - Seattle & King County has assumed the role of the third partner in place of United Way of King County.
6. The Interlocal Agreement Concerning the Administration of the Area Agency on Aging for Seattle-King County formalizes the change in partner agencies.
7. The interlocal agreement also: replaces the term "Sponsoring Bodies" with "Partner Agencies" when characterizing the entities entering into the interlocal agreement; reduces the number of Seattle-King County Advisory Council on Aging and Disability Services members from twenty-seven to twenty-one; and provides that the Partnership Agencies will work together to appoint members to the Seattle-King County Advisory Council on Aging and Disability Services.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The executive is hereby authorized to execute an interlocal agreement with the city of Seattle substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. In working with the city of Seattle to determine appointments to the Seattle-King County Advisory Council on Aging and Disability Services, public health - Seattle & King County and the King County department of community and human services shall give consideration to geographical diversity with the aim that at least one advisory council member reside in each King County council district.
SECTION 3. Before any formal submission of an Area Plan on Aging or any required update to a federal or Washington state agency in accordance with the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, or applicable Washington state law, the King
County department of community and human services and public health - Seattle & King County shall brief the King County council on the plan and its implementation status.