Drafter
Clerk 09/13/2006
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an interlocal agreement between King County, Pierce county and the cities of Enumclaw and Buckley, to establish a framework for the parties to plan for and collaboratively apply for grants to design a new bridge across the White river to connect King County's Enumclaw Plateau trail to Buckley's Foothill trails.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The parties have determined that there is a need for a safe, non-motorized crossing of the White river for regional trail users in order to access the trails and communities on each side of the river.
2. King County, Pierce county and the cities of Enumclaw and Buckley wish to enter into an interlocal agreement to collaboratively apply for grants to design a new bridge across the White river to connect King County's Enumclaw Plateau trail to Buckley's Foothill trails.
3. The recitals in the agreement set forth relevant facts supporting and explaining the terms of the agreement.
4. King County, under the authority of chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act, agrees that the parties represent that under state law, they each have authority to enter into this agreement and undertakings contemplated in this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement, substantially in the form attached to this ordinance, with Pierce county and the cities of Enumclaw and Buckley to establish a framework for the parties
to plan for and collaboratively apply for grants to design a new bridge across the White river to connect King County's Enumclaw Plateau trail to Buckley's Foothill trails.