King County - File #: 2006-0264

• File #: 2006-0264
• Version: 4
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/5/2006
• In control: Operating Budget Committee
• Final action: 7/10/2006
• Enactment date: 7/18/2006
• Enactment #: 15537
• Title: AN ORDINANCE providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County at a special election to be held in King County on September 19, 2006, of a proposition authorizing a property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a six year period, at a rate of not more than $0.0568 per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for collection in 2007 and as allowed by chapter 84.55 for the five succeeding years, for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the automated fingerprint identification system.
• Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Jane Hague, Larry Phillips, Kathy Lambert, Pete von Reichbauer
• Indexes: AFIS, Elections, levy, Property Tax, Records and Elections
• Staff: Curry, Clifton

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/10/2006	3	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
7/10/2006	3	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed as Amended	Pass
6/28/2006	2	Operating Budget Committee	Amended	Pass
6/28/2006	3	Operating Budget Committee	Passed Out of Committee Without a Recommendation	Pass
6/15/2006	1	Law, Justice and Human Services Committee	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
6/5/2006	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

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AN ORDINANCE providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County at a special election to be held in King County on September 19, 2006, of a proposition authorizing a property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a six year period, at a rate of not more than $0.0568 per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for collection in 2007 and as allowed by chapter 84.55 for the five succeeding years, for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the automated fingerprint identification system.
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PREAMBLE:
The automated fingerprint identification system levy is intended as supplemental funding to provide crime scene identification, positive identification and criminal history services on a regional basis. This levy shall not at any time provide general criminal justice funding or fund programs or purposes not otherwise consistent with this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: The council makes the following findings:
A. On November 4, 1986, the voters of King County approved an additional property tax levy of $0.025 per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation for five years for the purchase and implementation of an automated fingerprint identification system ("AFIS"). This ballot measure was authorized by Ordinance 7747. The primary goal for the establishment of AFIS was to identify perpetrators of crimes by matching their crime scene fingerprints to known prints stored in the AFIS database. By the end of 1990, more than one thousand two hundred crime scene prints were matched to potential suspect fingerprints in the AFIS database. Very few of these identifications would have been possible without the AFIS program, therefore AFIS significantly contributed to the ability of law enforcement in King County to identify and convict criminals.
B. With the 1986 AFIS levy expiring at the end of 1990, on November 6, 1990, the voters of K...