King County - File #: 2005-0323

• File #: 2005-0323
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/25/2005
• In control: Growth Management and Unincorporated Areas Committee
• Final action: 8/22/2005
• Enactment date: 8/29/2005
• Enactment #: 15257
• Title: An ORDINANCE approving a food bank operations easement in favor of the White Center Food Bank to install, operate and maintain a food bank facility in council district 8; and authorizing the executive to execute an easement agreement.
• Sponsors: Dow Constantine
• Indexes: Agreement, Easement, Food Banks

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/22/2005	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
8/22/2005	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
8/16/2005	2	Growth Management and Unincorporated Areas Committee	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
7/25/2005	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

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Clerk 08/17/2005
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An ORDINANCE approving a food bank operations easement in favor of the White Center Food Bank to install, operate and maintain a food bank facility in council district 8; and authorizing the executive to execute an easement agreement.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Under K.C.C. 4.56.115, the King County council may authorize the King County executive to grant an easement on county property.
2. The White Center Food Bank in cooperation with the King County Housing Authority has requested an easement in council district 8 in order to install, operate and maintain a food bank facility for the distribution of food and related items to low income individuals and families in the south King County area.
3. Lakewood park was conveyed to King County by the United States government in 1956 under the direction of the Public Housing Administration, under the authority of the United States Housing Act of 1937.
4. The board of county commissioners passed Resolution 21374 in 1960 authorizing the construction of the new southwest district health office on portion the Lakewood park property. The office is just southwest of the intersection of Southwest 108th Street and 8th Avenue Southwest.
5. Interim use of portions of this site by the White Center Food Bank, as authorized by the food bank operations easement approved by this Ordinance, shall not be construed as a cessation of use by the Seattle-King County department of public health for purposes of King County Resolution 21374.
6. The White Center Food Bank operated and maintained a food bank in White Center on King County Housing Authority property for many years, but it has been necessary to remove it in order for the housing authority to redevelop Park Lake Homes into the new Greenbridge community.
7. The King County council in Ordinance 15222 authorized the Executive to apply for a Community Development Block Grant federally-guaranteed loan of $6.85 million to assist the h...