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Clerk 08/17/2009
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AN ORDINANCE making technical amendments concerning the use of the additional sales and use tax of one tenth of one percent for the delivery of mental health and chemical dependency services and therapeutic courts to be consistent with Chapter 551, Laws of Washington 2009, Section 2; making technical corrections; and amending Ordinance 15955, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.08.318, Ordinance 15949, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.33.020 and Ordinance 15949, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.33.030.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15955, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.08.318 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. There is hereby created the mental illness and drug dependency fund, classified as a special revenue fund, for the purpose of accounting for the proceeds of an additional one-tenth of one percent sales tax imposed by King County for collection beginning in 2008.
B.((1.)) In accordance with ((the ordinance imposing the mental illness and drug dependency tax)) K.C.C. chapter 4.33, the proceeds of the sales tax will be placed in one fund designated and shall be used solely for the purpose of providing new or expanded chemical dependency or mental health treatment services and for the operation of new or expanded therapeutic court programs and shall not be used to supplant existing funding for these purposes, except as authorized in RCW 82.14.460(4), as it exists on the effective date of this ordinance.
((2.a. In order to reserve funds for new strategies not currently specified in the implementation plan, a new strategy reserve is hereby created in the mental illness and drug dependency fund. The purpose of this reserve is to fund new strategies and programs that meet the county's policy goals established in K.C.C. 4.33.010.
b. Mental illness and drug dependency programs or strategies that are funded from the new strategy reserve shall...
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