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AN ORDINANCE relating to regional jail services; authorizing the execution of the interlocal agreement between King County and the contract cities for jail services, which includes the transfer of the Eastside Justice Center site, located in council district eleven, to the city of Bellevue.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings of fact.
A. Cities have historically contracted with King County for jail services. King County anticipates running out of capacity for city misdemeanant inmates by 2013. Cities are proceeding with plans to house many of their inmates outside of the King County system.
B. The attached jail services agreement (JSA) provides for an orderly reduction in the cities' misdemeanant population, protects the county from overcrowding in general and special populations and has a new daily maintenance rate which represents a proportional share of the costs of operating King County's adult facilities.
C. King County owns certain real property, known as the Eastside Justice Center site, which was purchased by the county for the purpose of building an eastside justice center.
D. It is apparent that King County is financially unable to build and operate a third justice center.
E. As part of the JSA between King County and certain contract cities, the subject property would be conveyed to the city of Bellevue on behalf of the contract cities in King County. The conveyance is subject to the execution of an interlocal agreement among Bellevue and other contract cities to provide for the maintenance and disposition of the property. The contract cities may enter into an agreement with other King County cities for the purpose of providing for the disposition of the property.
F. The agreement allows for the sale of the property by the cities and use of the proceeds to contribute to the cost of building secure capacity, or contracting for secure capacity, and, at the sole discretion of the contract cities, building or contracting for alternative corrections facilities, sufficient to enable the contract cities to reduce the number of city inmates in the King County system to zero by January 1, 2013.
G. The agreement provides that if these conditions are not met, the city of Bellevue must transfer title to the property back to the county, if the property has not been sold. If the property has been sold, the city will pay the county an amount equal to the net sales price of the property plus interest.
H. The department of executive services has declared the subject parcel surplus to its needs.
I. Notices were sent to county departments and none expressed an interest in the property.
J. The department of executive services, facilities management division, finds the property surplus to the county's present and foreseeable needs.
K. Since the property is not zoned residential and housing development would not be compatible with the neighborhood, the property is deemed not suitable for affordable housing.
L. Under K.C.C. 4.56.140, the county may dispose of county property to another governmental agency by negotiation, upon such terms as may be agreed upon and for such consideration as may be deemed by the county to be adequate.
M. The transfer of this property to the city of Bellevue on behalf of other cities in King County is deemed to be in the best interests of the citizens of King County.
N. In authorizing this agreement, King County expressly relies upon the representations regarding the intent of the parties that have been made by the negotiating team and included in the Letter of Understanding attached hereto as Exhibit A and signed by Mike Wilkins on behalf of King County and David Moseley on behalf of the contract cities.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute the necessary documents to transfer the following described property to the city of Bellevue for the purposes listed in section 1 of this ordinance.
Parcel A: Lots 3 and 4 of Bellevue Short Plat No. 78-43 as recorded under Recording No. 7807030722, records of King County, Washington; EXCEPT the South 10 feet thereof.
Parcel B-1: That portion of the South 267.6 feet of the North634.7 feet of the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 28, Township 25 North, Range 5 East, W.M., in King County, Washington, lying Westerly of the Northern Pacific Railway Right-of-Way; EXCEPT the North 242 feet of the West 450feet thereof; AND EXCEPT the West 30 feet thereof for116th Avenue NE; AND EXCEPT the South 26.6 feet of the West 250 feet thereof.
Parcel B-2: An easement for access for the benefit of Parcel B-1as granted and set forth in document recorded under Recording No. 7908020842, records of King County, Washington.
Parcel C: The South 10 feet of the North 367.10 feet, measured along the Westerly line thereof, of that portion of the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section 28, Township 25 North, Range 5 East, W.M., lying Westerly of the right of way of Burlington Northern, Inc., successor to Northern Pacific Railway Company, Except the West 450 feet thereof.
SECTION 3. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute the jail services agreement in substantially the form of Attachment A to this ordinance.
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Newspaper: Seattle Times
Publish: Friday, 1/31/03
Hearing: 2/10/03