Drafter
Clerk 3/16/2007
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute a forty-year use agreement with the Eastside Football Club for the use, construction, development, programming and supplemental maintenance of synthetic and grass soccer fields and related infrastructure at Preston fields and community park.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. Ordinance 14509 authorizes the department of natural resources and parks to create new public recreational opportunities by empowering user groups, sports associations and community organizations to operate, maintain and program mutually agreed-upon capital improvements for public recreation facilities on King County land, and thereby address either or both regional and rural recreation needs without encumbering new tax funded operations and maintenance costs.
B. In accordance with K.C.C. 4.56.150.E, the King County council may adopt an ordinance permitting the county to enter into agreements for the use of county property with bona fide nonprofit organizations if the property is to be used by the nonprofit organization to make improvements to the county property or to provide services that will benefit the public. The agreements are exempt from the requirements of fair market value, appraisal and notice.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is hereby authorized to sign a use
agreement, that is substantially the same as that attached to this ordinance, with the Eastside Football Club for forty years for the Preston fields and community park.
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