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A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the Participatory Budgeting in Urban Unincorporated Areas plan, in response to the 2021-2022 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19210, Section 129, Proviso P1.
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WHEREAS, the 2021-2022 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19210, Section 129, Proviso P1, states that $5,000,000 of the appropriation for "capital project 1139844, DLS URBAN UKC INVEST, shall not be expended or encumbered until the executive transmits a plan for a community-driven decision-making process to allow for an equitable allocation of resources for urban unincorporated area investments ("the participatory budget process") and a motion that should acknowledge receipt of the plan and a motion acknowledging receipt of the plan is passed by the council," and
WHEREAS, the King County executive is committed to equity and social justice and becoming an antiracist government, and
WHEREAS, the King County executive is committed to creating and implementing an equitable participatory budget process for investments in urban unincorporated King County, and
WHEREAS, the King County executive hereby transmits to the council the Participatory Budgeting in Urban Unincorporated Areas plan required in the Ordinance 19210, Section 129, Proviso P1;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The council acknowledges receipt of the Participatory Budgeting in Urban Unincorporated Areas plan, Attachment A to this motion.