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Clerk 07/14/2005
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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning; adopting the 2005 County Space Plan; altering the space plan submittal requirements; changing the requirements for council approval of leases of real property; and amending Ordinance 10810, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.100 and Ordinance 12045, Section 23, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.04.040.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings. The council hereby makes the following findings of fact:
A. Section 220.20 of the King County Charter provides that the county council shall be the policy determining body of the county and shall have all legislative powers of the county. The council exercises its legislative power by the adoption and enactment of ordinances, including comprehensive plans for the present and future development of the county. The King county space plan is a subelement of the capital facilities element of the King county Comprehensive Plan.
B. King county's facilities management division has the responsibility to provide a variety of services to county agencies. One of the responsibilities is to prepare a proposed annual county space plan.
C. The adopted county space plan governs development of all facility master plans, facility program plans and CIP and lease requests for space housing county agency operations.
D. This space plan is guided by long-range policies adopted by the council over the past five years, as well as by the findings of the properties expert review task force, the budget advisory task force, the elections oversight committee and the King County commission on governance, which urged controls on the growth of criminal justice agency costs, strategic investment in technology and the need to complete annexation or incorporation of the urban unincorporated areas of the county.
E. The council has found operational master plans to be a useful tool for framing strategic and budgetary dec...
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