Drafter
Clerk 01/10/2005
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an interlocal agreement with the city of Bellevue for the transfer of drainage facilities, properties and easements.
Body
PREAMBLE:
The city of Bellevue has an established program of services to address the management of storm and surface water runoff.
As part of its surface water management program the city assumed operational and maintenance responsibilities for specific drainage facilities now within city boundaries that were formerly within King County and were operated, maintained or otherwise managed by King County.
The city and the county believe that it is in the best interest of the public that King County formally transfer either ownership of or responsibility for, or both, drainage facilities, properties and easements located within Bellevue boundaries to the city.
Responsibility for operating and maintaining municipal drainage facilities may only be formally transferred from one jurisdiction to another through an interlocal agreement executed by the relevant jurisdictions.
Pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, the Interlocal Cooperation Act, the parties are each authorized to enter into an agreement for cooperative action.
A separate ordinance, when passed by the King County council, will provide for the title to King County-owned drainage properties to be transferred to the city.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to enter into an
interlocal agreement, in substantially the same form as Attachment A to this ordinance, with the city of Bellevue for the transfer of drainage facilities, properties and easements.
ad requirements
10 days, not more than 25 prior, display format
newspaper: Seattle Times
Publish: Thursday, March 24, 2005
Public hearing: April 4, 2005