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Clerk 09/12/2018
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AN ORDINANCE that adopts the 2019 annual budget and makes appropriations for the capital improvements for the Harborview Medical Center.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Hospital Services Agreement between the Harborview Medical Center, the University of Washington and King County dated February 25, 2016, establishes a process for the development of the annual capital improvement budget for the medical center.
2. Consistent with that agreement, the Harborview building repair and replacement budget for 2018 is proposed for King County council adoption following the recommendations of the capital project oversight committee in March 2018 and the approval of the 2019 budget by the Harborview Board of Trustees in June 2019.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: On May 24, 2017, the council adopted Ordinance 18521 amending the Harborview 2017 Annual Budget Ordinance and making a supplemental appropriation not to exceed $28,160,000 to the Harborview building repair and replacement fund and declaring an emergency. The appropriation was to resolve electrical infrastructure damage caused by flooding in the Ninth and Jefferson building as a result of a fault in the sprinkler system during a routine test in 2016. The cost was fully funded by a settlement between University of Washington Medicine and its insurer, Zurich International. For capitalization purposes the funds were intended to be appropriated to the county's building repair and replacement fund, fund 3951, rather than to the Harborview building repair and replacement fund, fund 3961. However, a technical error was made in Ordinance 18521 where the ordinance language referred to the Harborview building repair and replacement fund but the fund number referred to the county's fund 3951 and Attachment A to Ordinance 18521 referred to the county's building repair and replacement fund, fund 3951. The error was corrected for the county's building r...
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