Drafter
Clerk 01/21/2015
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to the mental health and drug dependency action and implementation plans.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
A. In 2005, the Washington state Legislature authorized counties to implement a one-tenth of one percent sales and use tax to support new or expanded chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs and services and for the operation of new or expanded therapeutic court programs and services.
B. The one-tenth-of-one-percent sales and use tax supporting new or expanded chemical dependency or mental health treatment programs and services and for the operation of new or expanded therapeutic court programs and services, known as the mental illness and drug dependency ("MIDD") sales tax, generates between forty and sixty million dollars annually for King County.
C. King County's one-tenth-of-one-percent MIDD sales tax was approved by the council November 13, 2007, in Ordinance 15949 and is scheduled to expire January 1, 2017.
D. Ordinance 16261, approved by the council October 6, 2008, adopted the MIDD Implementation Plan that was called for by Ordinance 15949. The MIDD Implementation Plan was developed through an extensive collaborative outreach process led by the department of community and human services, with input and guidance from the MIDD oversight committee and community stakeholders. The MIDD Implementation Plan described the MIDD funded strategies, services and programs and initial budget levels for the MIDD strategies. The MIDD Implementation Plan has been used to guide the investment of MIDD sales tax revenue from its adoption to the present.
E. In preparation for the council's potential consideration of a renewal of the MIDD sales tax, a comprehensive review and assessment of the MIDD funded strategies, services, and programs is necessary. The MIDD review and assessment is to include an evaluation of the effectiveness of the MIDD-funded strategies, services and programs in meeti...
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