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Clerk 07/29/2024
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AN ORDINANCE approving the King County Doors Open Program implementation plan, required by Ordinance 19710, Section 9, to govern the expenditure of the cultural access sales and use tax from 2024 through 2031 to achieve outcomes related to public and educational benefits and economic support for arts, science, and heritage organizations; amending section 1 of this ordinance, repealing Attachment A to this ordinance, and establishing an effective date.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Washington state Legislature declared in RCW 36.160.010 that there is a need to provide public and educational benefits and economic support for arts, science, and heritage organizations.
2. The King County council, through Ordinance 19710, created the Doors Open Program to support arts, science, and heritage organizations, and approved a new one-tenth of one percent sales tax to fund the Doors Open Program.
3. Ordinance 19710, Section 9, requires the executive, in consultation with 4Culture, to transmit the implementation plan and an ordinance to approve the plan to the council no later than July 15, 2024. The implementation plan, once effective, will govern the expenditure of the sales and use tax's proceeds until the tax expires in 2031. The required implementation plan is Attachment A to this ordinance.
4. Ordinance 19710, Section 9, enumerates specific requirements for the implementation plan. The Doors Open Program Implementation Plan for 2024-2031, dated November 20, 2024, Attachment A to this ordinance, responds to the requirements set out by Ordinance 19710 Section 9, by: itemizing start-up funding costs incurred or to be incurred by 4Culture and the county; establishing guidelines for eligible expenditures for each Doors Open Program element; providing detailed program descriptions of the elements of the Doors Open Program and a framework for 4Culture administration of these programs; and providing a timeline for the Doors Open Progra...
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