Drafter
Clerk 07/08/2002
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AN ORDINANCE relating to surplus real property; authorizing the transfer of parks and recreation facilities that are located in potential annexation areas to the cities that will eventually annex the parks and recreation facilities; and amending Ordinance 12045, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.56.070.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The council in 1990 passed Motion 8056, which authorized the executive to negotiate the transfer of parks and recreational facilities located within cities to those cities.
2. Under this motion and RCW 36.89.050, parks and recreational facilities located wholly or partly within cities may be transferred to a city without following the process for declaring real property to be surplus under K.C.C. 4.56.070.
3. Due to the current fiscal crisis, the county is also seeking to transfer parks and recreational facilities located in potential annexation areas to the cities that are designated to annex the areas in which the parks and recreational facilities are located.
4. The transfer of such parks and recreational facilities is not exempt from the process for declaring real property to be surplus under K.C.C. 4.56.070. This process requires consideration of whether the park or recreation facility at issue would be suitable for other uses.
5. Because parks and recreational facilities located within potential annexation areas are proposed to be transferred for continued parks and recreation use, no purpose would be served by evaluating whether a park or recreational facility proposed for transfer would be suitable for other uses pursuant to the process for declaring real property to be surplus under K.C.C. 4.56.070.
6. Many parks and recreation facilities within potential annexation areas have become surplus to the county's needs because the county can no longer afford to operate its entire parks system.
7. The monetary value of a park or recreational facility that is transferred only for ...
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