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AN ORDINANCE approving the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan; and amending Ordinance 18285, Section 3, and Ordinance 18285, Section 4.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In July 2015, Ordinance 18088 submitted to the voters of King County a proposition known as the "best starts for kids levy," authorizing a regular property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation for six consecutive years, commencing in 2016, at a rate not to exceed fourteen cents per one thousand dollars of assessed value in the first year and with an increase of up to three percent in the five succeeding years, for the purpose of funding prevention and early intervention strategies to improve the health and well-being of children, youth and their communities.
2. The six-year levy commencing in 2016 has been approved by the voters for the express purpose of paying costs as outlined in Ordinance 18088, Section 5. Except for levy proceeds designated for the youth and family homelessness prevention initiative and sums necessary to provide for the costs and charges incurred by the county that are attributable to the election, the remaining levy proceeds may only be expended as authorized in Ordinance 18088, Section 5.C.
3. Ordinance 18088, Section 5.C., authorized the following expenditures from levy proceeds:
a. Fifty percent that shall be used to plan, provide and administer strategies focused on children and youth under five years old and their caregivers, pregnant women and for individuals or families concerning pregnancy. Of these moneys, not less than $42.8 million shall be used to provide health services, such as maternity support services and nurse family partnership home visiting program services;
b. Thirty-five percent that shall be used to plan, provide and administer strategies focused on children and youth ages five through twenty-four years old;
c. Ten percent that shall be used to plan, provide and administer communities of opportunity; and
d. Five percent t...
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