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Clerk 11/16/2023
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AN ORDINANCE approving the grant funding allocation for the projects funded through the WaterWorks grant program, for the 2023-2024 cycle, in accordance with the 2023-2024 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19546, Section 113, and Ordinance 18031, Section 1, as amended.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Ordinance 18031, Section 1, as amended by Ordinance 18261, Section 1, established the grant award criteria and process for the WaterWorks grant program in accordance with the 2015-2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, Section 110, Proviso P2.
2. The 2023-2024 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19546, Section 113, appropriated funding for the WaterWorks grant program.
3. Attachment A to Ordinance 18261 contains the implementation guidelines for the WaterWorks grant program, including the project criteria, eligibility, project selection process and administration of grants. The implementation guidelines provide for a grant ranking committee to review, rank and recommend projects for funding and for the wastewater treatment division of the department of natural resources and parks to administer and staff the program.
4. As described in Attachment A to Ordinance 18261, projects approved for funding must meet eligibility criteria for water quality improvements, and the grant ranking committee is to review, rank, and recommend to the King County executive the projects to be approved for funding, based upon the eligibility criteria and ability of the applicants to demonstrate water quality benefits and implementation strength.
5. The grant ranking committee convened thirteen times in 2023 to review and rank grant proposals and has recommended funding for the projects listed in section 1 of this ordinance, based upon the eligibility criteria, water quality benefits, and implementation strength.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County council authorizes the funding of WaterWorks projects for the 2023-2024 cycle, totaling $2,462,473, as follows:
A. Environmental Science Center: $120,000 for "From Salmon Heroes to Schoolyard Heroes";
B. Nature Vision: $61,392 for "Youth Watershed Education, Stewardship, and Community Science";
C. Mother Africa: $200,000 for "Clean Water 4 All";
D. Stewardship Partners: $190,000 for "Equitable Incentives";
E. Tilth Alliance dba Seattle Tilth: $177,767 for "Community Resources for Water Quality Initiative";
F. Toxic-Free Future: $80,000 for "Working with King County Communities in Action to Reduce Toxic Chemical Pollution";
G. Washington Water Trust: $195,412 for "Sammamish Recycled Water Irrigation on Farm Demonstration";
H. Latino Community Fund of Washington State, with Comunidad: $199,156 for "A Latino community-led initiative: creating rain gardens as a proud practice for Latino landscapers";
I. Whale Scout: $121,579 for "Student and Community-Led Sammamish River Restoration at the Former Wayne Golf Course";
J. American Rivers: $195,543 for "Longfellow Creek Headwater Restoration at Roxhill Bog - Construction";
K. Seattle Parks Foundation, with Restaurant 2 Garden: $184,000 for "South King St. Environmental Hub Stormwater Collection & Depave Project";
L. University of Washington Bothell: $117,006 for "Floating Treatment Wetland/Biomedia Module Design, Field Installation and Monitoring Project";
M. Lake Advocates: $33,250 for "Evaluate the Use of Satellite Data for Water Quality and Harmful Algal Bloom Surveillance";
N. Northwest Maritime Center: $160,828 for "The Duwamish River: Past, Present & Future";
O. Friends of North Creek Forest: $22,425 for "Friends of North Creek Forest Environmental Education Program";
P. Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association: $111,980 for "Longfellow Creek Restoration and Education Program";
Q. Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group: $199,984 for "Salmon Friendly
Bear and Soos Creek Watersheds 2024-2026"; and
R. City of Kirkland: $92,151 for "Saving Juanita Creek, one backyard at a time."
SECTION 2. The King County council authorizes funding of WaterWorks projects recommended by the council for Round 6, totaling $3,016,949, as follows:
A. Beavers Northwest: $15,000 for "Beaver Focused Education, Outreach, and Vegetation Enhancement";
B. Cascadia College: $35,000 for "Cascadia Stormwater and Wetland Community Engagement";
C. City of Bellevue: $80,000 for "Bellevue Utilities Environmental Monitoring Program Central Data Management Study";
D. City of Issaquah: $45,000 for "Issaquah Creek Bacteria Study, Continuation 2023";
E. City of Kent: $60,000 Kent Lakes Water Quality Monitoring";
F. City of Kirkland: $102,666 for "Kirkland North End Streets for Retrofit";
G. City of Kirkland: $23,000 for "Cochran Springs Creek Headwaters Restoration";
H. City of Maple Valley: $150,000 for "Lake Wilderness Country Club Drive Stormwater Treatment and Creek Restoration";
I. City of Newcastle: $120,000 for "Stormwater Conveyance Rehabilitation Program";
J. City of Shoreline: $35,000 for "Sunset Park Pavement to Green Space Conversion-Design Phase";
K. City of Woodinville: $33,000 for "Lake Leota Water Quality Monitoring and Watershed Stewardship Program";
L. Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association $31,909 for "Delridge Wetland Park Restoration";
M. Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association $135,378 "Cuidadores de Agua";
N. EarthCorps: $50,000 for "Thornton Creek Landscape Restoration";
O. Environmental Coalition of South Seattle: $166,202 for "Immigrant Youth Water Stewards: Household Hazards";
P. Environmental Science Center: $90,000 for "Environmental Heroes: Water Quality Programming along the Cedar River";
Q. Finn Hill Neighborhood Alliance: $55,000 for "A Grass Roots Model for Increasing Homeowner Stewardship of Watersheds Yard by Yard";
R. King County Housing Authority: $100,000 for "Sandpiper East, Bridge Replacement";
S. Kubota Garden Foundation: $180,000 for "Kubota Garden Stormwater Pilot Project";
T. Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation: $22,162 for "Water Quality Assessment of McAleer and Lyon Creek Tributaries and Subbasins in Lake Forest Park";
U. Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group: $30,000 for "Lake City Floodplain Conceptual and Preliminary Design and Community Engagement";
V. Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group: $149,500 for "Student Action in Streamside Restoration";
W. Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $20,000 for "Greenway Education Program";
X. Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $25,000 for "Ballinger Open Space Phase 3";
Y. People for an Environmentally Responsible Kenmore: $10,000 for "CLEAR-Creek to Lake-Education, Assessment and Restoration";
Z. Puget Soundkeeper: $97,216 for "Lost Urban Creeks Project 4";
AA. Salmon Safe: $167,800 for “Salmon-Safe Communities: Building Watershed Friendly Affordable Housing”;
BB. Save Habitat and Diversity: $20,000 for "Habitat Restoration and Interpretation at Shadow Lake Nature Preserve";
CC. Seattle 2030 District: $125,500 for "Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Affordable Housing";
DD. Seattle Public Schools: $30,000 for "Thornton Creek at Nathan Hale High School Erosion Control Measures Post Noxious Weed Removal";
EE. Serve Ethiopians: $87,000 for "Beer Shiva Park Restoration";
FF. Sno-King Watershed Council: $22,000 for "Engaging the community in water quality stewardship through water monitoring and habitat restoration";
GG. Snoqualmie Valley Watershed: $76,500 for "10 Million Gallons";
HH. Sustainable Seattle: $33,857 for "Planning the Future of Our Water";
II. Thornton Creek Alliance: $15,000 for "Community-based monitoring of Thornton Creek and its Tributaries";
JJ. Trout Unlimited: $108,803 for "Laughing Jacobs Creek Reach 3 Permitting and Design (Part 1)";
KK. United Indians of All Tribes: $72,000 for "Labeteyah Native Water Stewards";
LL. University of Washington Bothell: $35,000 for "Source Tracking of E. Coli found in S. Snohomish and King County Streams and Their Elimination";
MM. Vashon Nature Center: $70,000 for "Community Waters 3.0 Stormwater Education";
NN. Weed Warriors: $10,000 for "Restoration of Wetland #1 of the Myers Way Parcels";
OO. Woodland Park Zoo: $200,000 for "Improving Water Management at Zoo";
PP. YMCA of Greater Seattle. $32,456 for "Youth in Action Stewardship, Education and Leadership 2023-2025"; and
QQ. Zero Waste Washington: $50,000 for "Foundational Social Marketing Research."