Drafter
Clerk 08/22/24
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the use of an interlocal agreement template for city entities seeking to enter into an agreement for jail services with King County.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. In 2002, King County entered into an interlocal agreement for jail services with most cities in the county ("the 2002 agreement").
B. In 2010, King County and twenty-four cities ("the extension cities") signed an amendment to the 2002 agreement that improved cost recovery for the county and extended the term of the 2002 agreement to 2016 ("the 2016 agreement").
C. In the fall of 2010, the county and the cities that signed the 2016 agreement began negotiations on possible improvements to the model for calculating the jail fees and, for any interested cities, other provisions for creating a long-term, durable arrangement for misdemeanant jail services.
D. Working with a group of the extension cities on the jail agreement administration group, two new contracting options were developed to provide a range of choices.
E. One option has a term that runs through 2030 and is modeled after the long-term, durable agreement with the city of Seattle authorized by the council in Ordinance 17199 on September 26, 2011, and signed by the executive on September 29, 2011. To date, no other city has expressed interest in signing this agreement.
F. The second option, which replaced the 2016 agreement, had a term that ran through 2020 ("the 2020 agreement"). Its use with extension cities was authorized by the council in Ordinance 17239 on December 16, 2011, signed by the executive on December 16, 2011. On December 16, 2013, the council, in Ordinance 17718, ratified the execution of the 2020 agreement with the cities of Burien, Enumclaw and Federal Way. Ordinance 17718 was signed by the executive on December 19, 2013.
G. Executive and council staff developed a new template agreement, authorized by the c...
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