Drafter
Clerk 10/08/2008
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AN ORDINANCE approving temporary additional King County agency tenants to occupy the Chinook building located on Fifth Avenue and Jefferson Street in Seattle; expressing the intent that the executive and council be collocated in the King County courthouse in the future; and amending Ordinance 15390, Section 2, as amended, and Ordinance 15390, Section 5, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The King County space plan states that the county should move from dependence on short-term leased space in the downtown Seattle area to owned or long term leased space when this will provide a long term cost benefit to the county and that the county backfill vacated spaces in county-owned buildings by moving agencies from leased space.
B. The office of the executive, office of management and budget, office of business relations and economic development and department of executive services, administration, currently lease space in the Columbia Center.
C. The King County executive has identified that significant cost savings will be achieved by terminating the leases for space in the Columbia Center and temporarily moving the office of the executive, office of management and budget and department of executive services, administration, to vacant space in the county's Chinook Building and moving the office of business relations and economic development to the county's Yesler Building. The move of the executive and office of management and budget to the Chinook Building would be a temporary measure until criminal justice planning efforts and budgetary constraints allow for the colocation of the executive and council in a county-owned building.
D. Ordinance 15390 established a list of final King County agencies authorized to occupy the Chinook Building and provided that no other county agency shall be located in the building unless authorized by ordinance.
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