Drafter
Clerk 10/03/2006
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A MOTION supporting an increase in the permanent endowment supporting the youth sports facilities grant program.
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WHEREAS, the King County council strongly supports the permanent endowment of funds supporting the acquisition, development, operation and maintenance of youth sports facilities throughout the county, and
WHEREAS, the county created the youth sports facilities grant fund. This fund has budgeted expenditure authority in excess of one million dollars in 2006, with a permanent endowment of over six hundred thousand dollars, and
WHEREAS, since 1993, the youth sports facilities grant program has issued two hundred thirteen grants with funded areas ranging from ball fields, sports courts, climbing walls, playgrounds, rowing facilities, skate parks, mountain biking courses, gymnasiums, swimming pools and weight rooms, and
WHEREAS, the youth sports facilities grant program has awarded over seven million dollars funding the aforementioned projects, and
WHEREAS, the program has partnered with cities, school districts and nonprofit agencies throughout the county to expand the options available to youth throughout the county, and
WHEREAS, additional funds added to the permanent endowment will expand the impact the youth sports facilities grants can have on King County, and
WHEREAS, the proceeds from the sale of the Johnson Building will allow the issuance of an additional one hundred thousand dollars per year in youth sports facilities grants, and
WHEREAS, King County purchased the property known as the Johnson Hardware Building, located at 590 First Avenue South, from the Johnson family on May 27, 1980, for nine hundred fifty thousand dollars as part of the Kingdome stadium development, and
WHEREAS, between 1980 and 1997 the property was used as by the Kingdome stadium authority as a storage facility and as storage for the Mariners baseball organization, and
WHEREAS, on June 17, 1997, Washington stat...
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