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Clerk 01/13/2011
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an amendment to the Conservation Futures interlocal cooperation agreement with the city of Federal Way for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 16932.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County conservation futures tax levy funds are collected throughout King County as a dedicated portion of the property tax for the acquisition of open space and resource lands.
2. Ordinance 14714 established procedures for the annual allocation of conservation futures tax levy funds, which directs the conservation futures citizens' committee to make funding recommendations to the King County executive to consider for inclusion in the annual budget ordinance.
3. The executive has also received and considered the conservation futures citizens' committee funding recommendations for the reallocation of project funding in his transmittal of the 2010 supplemental budget ordinance, and the King County council has appropriated conservation futures funds, by Ordinance 16932, to the Hylebos Creek open space acquisition project described in Attachment A to this ordinance.
5. King County desires to disburse conservation futures funds to the city of Federal Way and to do so it must amend the existing conservation futures interlocal agreement with Federal Way.
6. King County and its cities are authorized to enter into an interlocal agreement pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into an amendment to the Conservation Futures interlocal cooperation agreement between King
County and the city of Federal Way for the disbursement of conservation futures tax levy funds appropriated under Ordinance 16932.
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