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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $3,047,000 to SWM Fund 121 for expenditure to certain funds and authorizing expenditures from those funds; and amending the 2000 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 13678, Sections 20, 43, 77, 85, 121, and Attachment 3, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. There is hereby approved and adopted a supplemental appropriation of $3,047,000 to SWM fund 121 to be funded from fees collected in the rural portion of the SWM service area, also known as rural drainage program fees. This appropriation shall be expended as follows: $1,401,317 to water and land resources for rural surface water management services; $40,000 to water and land resources for small grants to local resource protection groups in the rural area; $120,093 to resource lands and open space for the agricultural fish and ditch program; $357,690 to development and environmental services for code enforcement in the rural area; $477,783 to CX fund for transfer to development and environmental services fund and resource and open space; and $1,127,900 to capital improvement projects in SWM Fund 3292.
PROVIDED THAT:
Rural drainage services provided by this appropriation shall support a rural level of development and not facilitate urbanization. The intent of this rural drainage program appropriation is to provide a means through which existing and emerging surface water problems in the rural areas can be addressed in a manner that preserves both rural resources and rural activities including agriculture and forestry. In addition, the unique stormwater needs of the unincorporated rural area of the county require that the county's surface water management program develop a rural drainage program.
PROVIDED FURTHER THAT:
Prior to submitting the 2001 rural drainage budget and CIP list, the Department of Natural Resources shall develop rural drainage project priority criteria and implementation methods to ensure that projects selected ...
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