Drafter
Clerk 10/22/2025
Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing the position of facilities management manager as a key subordinate unit; and amending Ordinance 11955, Section 12, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.16.100.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Before 2002, the King County facilities management division was a county department named the department of construction and facilities management. In 2003, the department of construction and facilities management was created as a division of the department of executive services via Ordinance 14570.
2. The facilities management division contains seven sections and workgroups that collectively oversee and maintain building operations, major capital projects and planning, parking operations, real estate services, physical security, countywide printing needs, and financial tracking for all real property owned or leased by the county. The 2026-2027 proposed operating and capital budget for the facilities management division is $354 million.
2. The nature of the programs for which the facilities management division will be responsible in the future is evolving and the public policy implications from those programs will have a long term effect on the residents of King County. For example, planning for the future of the county's downtown civic campus will intensify over the next biennium, which will have long term effect on how and where the county will deliver its services to residents. At the forefront will not only be the county's capital planning for the civic campus but for all county facilities throughout the county. The facilities management division will be the lead agency in overseeing this planning. Additionally, the real property market is in flux; where people work and live is changing. The policy implications from this will directly impact the county's infrastructure needs in the immediate and long term future, with the facilities management division as the lead agency on determining the county's needs for owning ve...
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