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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the use of an amendment template to interlocal cooperation agreements with the cities of Auburn, Bellevue, Black Diamond, Bothell, Burien, Carnation, Covington, Des Moines, Duvall, Enumclaw, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland, Lake Forest Park, Mercer Island, Milton, Newcastle, Normandy Park, North Bend, Pacific, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, Seattle, Shoreline, Snoqualmie and Tukwila, Vashon Park District and Vashon-Maury Island Trust, for open space acquisition projects.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County conservation futures tax levy funds are collected from throughout King County as a dedicated portion of property taxes, for the acquisition of open space and natural resource lands.
2. K.C.C. 26.12.010 established procedures for the annual allocation of conservation futures tax levy funds, which directs the conservation futures citizens committee to make funding recommendations to the King County executive, to consider for inclusion in the annual appropriation ordinance.
3. Funds are disbursed to cities or other entities through new interlocal cooperation agreements or amendments to existing interlocal agreements.
4. Currently, all amendments to existing interlocal agreements require approval by the respective city council or other governing entity and the county council.
5. In the past, after the council appropriated moneys for projects for entities with which the county already has interlocal agreements, the executive transmitted a proposed ordinance for approval of amendments to the interlocal agreement, with each entity to contractually recognize the moneys already appropriated by attaching a funding allocation attachment for affected entities.
6. All amendments or modifications to the existing interlocal agreements other than those amendments that contractually allocate conservation futures already appropriated by council shall require council review and approval by ordinance.
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