Drafter
Clerk 02/21/2008
Title
A MOTION relating to membership of the growth management and natural resources committee when voting on recommendations on the Comprehensive Plan; and amending Motion 11122, Section D, as amended, and OR 2-020.
Body
WHEREAS, clarification is needed for purposes of quorum and attendance when additional members are added to the growth management and natural resources committee for purposes of voting on recommendations on the Comprehensive Plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
I. Motion 11122, Section D, as amended, and OR 2-020 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Standing committees - functions. In addition to any committee otherwise established by law, the committees of the metropolitan King County council and their respective functions are established as follows:
A. Capital budget committee shall review capital improvement proposals and programs, including financial plans, revenues and expenditures; provide capital project oversight; review and consider the sale and lease of real property; and consider and make recommendations on capital budget appropriations and on debt and investment proposals, levies, fees and taxes and relating to capital expenditures.
The auditor's office shall report to the capital budget committee when performing its large capital construction proposals oversight function in accordance with the 2007 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15652, Section 1.F.8.
B. General government and labor relations committee shall:
1. Consider and make recommendations on policies relating to management organizational structure; customer service; the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of county departments, including: assessor; personnel; purchasing; civil rights and compliance; real property management; general services; records and elections; facilities management; risk management; safety and worker's compensation; and cooperative extension community services;
2. Consider and make recommendations to the full council on the annual audit program;
3. Consider and make recommendations to the full council on labor agreements;
4. Perform the functions of the labor implementation committee as specified in K.C.C. chapter 3.16;
5. Consider and make recommendations relating to information technology;
6. Consider and make recommendations relating to constitutional and human rights, discrimination, civil and criminal liability, ethics and campaign practices; and
7. Consider and make recommendations relating to the King County international airport.
C. Growth management and natural resources committee shall consider and make recommendations on policies and issues relating to land use development, comprehensive planning, development regulations, regulatory reform and recommendations to the department of development and environmental services (DDES). In respect to consideration of updates of the Comprehensive Plan, all members of the council not assigned to the growth management and natural resources committee will be considered voting members of the committee. Only for those portions of a meeting when the committee votes on recommendations on the Comprehensive Plan shall these additional members be considered members of the committee for purposes of quorum and attendance. The chair of the committee may refer various portions of the Comprehensive Plan to panels of members. The chair of the committee may employ the various standing committees as panels. The panels shall transmit their recommendations to all councilmembers for their consideration before the committee refers the annual update of the Comprehensive Plan to the council.
The committee shall consider and make recommendations relating to: market rate housing and housing affordability; Growth Management Planning Council ("GMPC"), including GMPC task forces, timelines, products such as benchmarking and land capacity, and Countywide Planning Policies; Potential Annexation Areas; boundary review board; planned action environmental impact statements and related phased state Environmental Policy Act review; and the Puget Sound Regional Council; and development and land use regulations necessary to either implement salmon recovery or comply with the Endangered Species Act, or both.
The committee shall consider and make recommendations relating to subarea planning community councils and other unincorporated self-government strategies.
The committee shall consider and make recommendations on policies and issues relating to: resource lands; flood control and surface water and stormwater management; water quality and quantity; and the restoration of Puget Sound.
D. Law, justice and human services committee shall:
1. Consider and make recommendations on policies relating to: public safety; adult detention; juvenile justice programs; youth services; the superior and district courts; judicial administration; prosecuting attorney; and public defense; and
2. Consider and make recommendations on matters relating to personal and environmental health; mental health; developmental disabilities; alcoholism and substance abuse; emergency medical services; human services; families and children; women's programs; and aging programs.
E. Operating budget, fiscal management and select issues committee shall, in consideration of the operating budget: review and monitor the operating budget, including financial plans, revenues, expenditures, quarterly reports and operating programs; monitor the financial status of county funds; consider and make recommendations to all operating supplemental appropriations; and consider and make recommendations on debt and investment proposals, levies, fees and taxes concerning noncapital expenditures. The committee shall consider and make recommendations on municipal annexations and incorporations and shall consider and make recommendations on matters pertaining to two particular issues before the council:
1. The 2007 United States Department of Justice report concerning the King County jail and the county's ongoing response to the issues addressed in that report; and
2. Matters relating to the county's mental illness and drug dependency action plan and revenues raised by the King County mental health additional sales and use tax authorized in Ordinance 15949.
F. Transportation committee shall consider and make recommendations on policies relating to: transportation; planning; roads; engineering; and public transportation.
G. 2009 budget review and adoption committee shall convene for the purpose of reviewing and making recommendations on the executive's proposed 2009 annual budget. All members of the council shall be considered ex officio voting members of the committee for the duration of the committee's review of the executive's proposed 2009 annual budget. The chair of the 2009 budget review and adoption committee shall appoint members to an operating budget panel and to a capital budget panel.
H. Utilities and parks committee shall consider and make recommendations on: policies and programs, other than those relating to any one or more of land use development, comprehensive planning and development regulations, relating to parks and open space; recreation programs; regional trails; cultural resources; and utility services including wastewater treatment and water quality and quantity, solid waste management,
recycling services, utility annexations, utility comprehensive plans and franchises and cable communications and telecommunications issues.
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