File #: 2011-0424    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/31/2011 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: 1/9/2012 Final action: 1/9/2012
Enactment date: 1/21/2012 Enactment #: 17249
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to transfer and assign an easement to the Cedar River water and sewer district.
Sponsors: Kathy Lambert
Indexes: Cedar River, Water and Sewer Districts
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17249.pdf, 2. 2011-0424 Attachment to transmittal letter.pdf, 3. 2011-0424 fiscal note.xls, 4. 2011-0424 transmittal letter.doc, 5. A. Assignment of Easement, 6. 12-06-11 Staff Report with attachments, 7. 2011-0424 hearing notice - transfer and assign easement to Cedar River Water and Sewer Dist - DRAFT.doc, 8. News release 2011-0424_11-3_2011 - DRAFT.doc, 9. 2011-0424 Hearing Notice.doc, 10. 2011-0424 Affidavit of Publication.pdf
Drafter
Clerk 10/19/2011
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to transfer and assign an easement to the Cedar River water and sewer district.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. In 2004, King County acquired a utility easement from the Fairwood Golf and Country Club in Renton, Washington, to install and construct a wastewater interceptor pipeline together with all connections, manholes and appurtenances thereto as part of the Fairwood Interceptor project.
B. The Cedar River water and sewer district ("the district") operates and maintains a local sewage collection system which includes the area of the Fairwood Golf and Country Club. The district's local sewer collection system also includes a separate wastewater pipeline referred to as Trunk D which connects the district's sewer collection system in Fairwood to the county's Madsen Creek Interceptor pipeline.
C. King County and the district believe that it is in the best interest of their respective ratepayers that King County formally transfer to the district the ownership and responsibility for that portion of the county's wastewater interceptor pipeline located in the Fairwood Golf and Country Club property together with an assignment of the utility easement for that portion of the interceptor pipeline.
D. Pursuant to K.C.C. 4.56.115, the King County executive is authorized to grant or assign utility easements necessary for utility purposes other than to serve county property so long as the utility easements will not interfere with or hinder the use of the property and so long as the grant of utility easements is first approved by the council.
E. Pursuant to K.C.C. 4.56.140, the county may dispose of county real property interests to another governmental agency by direct negotiation, upon such terms as may be agreed upon and for such consideration as may be deemed by the county to be adequate.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is he...

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