Drafter
Clerk 06/16/2011
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AN ORDINANCE related to the contracting opportunities program and changing the date for the annual report; and amending Ordinance 13983, Section 3, as amended and K.C.C. 4.19.030, Ordinance 13983, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.19.040, Ordinance 13983, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.09.060, Ordinance 13983, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.19.070 and Ordinance 13983, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.19.090.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The deadlines for the annual reports on King County's contracting opportunities program and its apprenticeship program are April 30 and May 1 respectively.
2. The time required to prepare these two reports and perform other program functions makes these deadlines challenging to meet.
3. In order to facilitate the timely delivery of the reports to the council and to better serve the public, it is in the interests of King County to stagger the deadlines for these reports by two months.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 13983, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.19.030 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "Administrator" means the (([manager of the] office of business relations and economic development)) manager of the finance and business operations division in the department of executive services.
B. "Small (([economically disadvantaged business] [contractor and supplier])) contractor and supplier" means that a business and the person or persons who own and control it are in a financial condition (([that] [which])) that puts the business at a substantial disadvantage in attempting to compete for public contracts. In assessing these financial conditions, the administrator shall substantially adopt the approach used by the federal Small Business Administration, but the administrator shall adjust the Small Business Administr...
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