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Clerk 07/09/2019
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AN ORDINANCE relating to a capital improvement project; making a supplemental appropriation of $23,500,000 to the major maintenance reserve fund; amending the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, Section 126, as amended, and Ordinance 18835, Attachment A, as amended; and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The domestic water distribution system in the King County correctional facility is a critical component of the building. When properly functioning, the system provides potable water that is needed for building operations. When properly functioning, the system provides a safe and usable environment to correctional facility staff, inmates, homeless shelter occupants and the public. If the system does not function properly, safety and use could be compromised.
B. In or around 2011 - 2012 the facilites mangement division replaced the original steel and copper domestic water pipes with new polypropylene-random (PP-R) water pipe manufactured by Aquatherm Corporation. Facilities management division staff first observed water leaks in the PP-R water pipe in 2015. More recently, the PP-R water piping has developed sudden and significant leaks in several locations. Due to the possibility of continued failure in the PP-R water pipe, and the potential impacts of such a failure to a significant county facility, to replace the failing water distribution system in the King County correctional facility.
SECTION 2. This ordinance makes a supplemental appropriation of $23,500,000 to the major maintenance reserve fund.
SECTION 3. Ordinance 18835, Section 126, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting the following:
From the major maintenance reserve fund there is hereby appropriated and authorized to be disbursed the following amounts for the specific project identified in this Attachment A to this ordinance.
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