File #: 2018-0365    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 7/30/2018 In control: Health, Housing and Human Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 2/13/2019
Enactment date: Enactment #: 15311
Title: A MOTION accepting the 2017 annual mental illness and drug dependency evaluation summary report, in compliance with K.C.C. 4A.500.309.
Sponsors: Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Pete von Reichbauer
Indexes: Drugs, Mental Health
Code sections: 4A.500.309 - .
Attachments: 1. Motion 15311, 2. 2018-0365 legislative review form, 3. A. Mental Illness and Drug Dependency 2017 Annual Report, 4. 2018-0365 transmittal letter, 5. 2018-0365_SR_MIDDAnnualReport, 6. 2018-0365 MIDD RPC Annual Report Briefing v8, 7. 2018-0365_SR_MIDDAnnualReport
Staff: Porter, Samantha

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Clerk 07/25/2018

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A MOTION accepting the 2017 annual mental illness and drug dependency evaluation summary report, in compliance with K.C.C. 4A.500.309.

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                                 WHEREAS, in 2005, the 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, and

                                 WHEREAS, in 2007, Ordinance 15949 authorized the levy collection of and legislative policies for the expenditure of revenues from an additional sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent for the delivery of mental health and chemical dependency services and therapeutic courts, and

                                 WHEREAS, in 2016, Ordinance 18333 extended the expiration date of this sales and use tax to January 1, 2026, and

                                 WHEREAS, the council called for and approved a service improvement plan, an implementation plan, and an evaluation plan to guide the investment of renewed mental illness and drug dependency sales tax revenue, and the council established five revised policy goals for the programs supported by sales tax funds, and

                                 WHEREAS, Ordinance 18407 amended Ordinance 15949, Section 3, to require the executive to develop annual mental illness and drug dependency evaluation summary reports addressing the initiatives, programs and services supported with the sales tax revenue, and required such reports to be submitted to the council by August 1 of each year beginning in 2018, for council review and approval by motion. Ordinance 18407 also codified Ordinance 15949, Section 3, as amended, as K.C.C. 4A.500.309, and

                                 WHEREAS, the 2017 annual mental illness and drug dependency evaluation summary report, which is Attachment A to this motion, has been developed in coordination with the mental illness and drug dependency advisory committee and is supported by the committee;

                                 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                                 The 2017 annual mental illness and drug dependency evaluation summary report is hereby approved.