King County - File #: 2010-0190

• File #: 2010-0190
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/22/2010
• In control: Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee
• On agenda: 4/12/2010
• Final action: 4/12/2010
• Enactment date: 4/22/2010
• Enactment #: 16801
• Title: AN ORDINANCE implementing the district court redistricting committee's amendment to the districting plan implementing provisions of RCW 3.34.010 to increase the number of judges from twenty-three to twenty-five; and amending Ordinance 8935, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.68.070 and Ordinance 9427, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.68.078.
• Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
• Indexes: District Court, Districting, Judicial Administration
• Code sections: 2.68.070 - , 2.68.078 -
• Staff: Curry, Clifton

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/12/2010	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
3/29/2010	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Deferred
3/23/2010	1	Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee	Recommended Do Pass Consent	Pass
3/22/2010	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 03/17/2010
Title
AN ORDINANCE implementing the district court redistricting committee's amendment to the districting plan implementing provisions of RCW 3.34.010 to increase the number of judges from twenty-three to twenty-five; and amending Ordinance 8935, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.68.070 and Ordinance 9427, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.68.078.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County Code requires that the council convene the county's district court districting committee whenever there is a change in the number of judges.
2. Chapter 26, Laws of Washington 2009, amended RCW 3.34.010 to allow for the addition of two district court judges in 2009, increasing the number of authorized judges in King County from twenty-one to twenty-three. These were added in Ordinance 16644.
3. Chapter 26, Laws of Washington 2009, also amended RCW 3.34.010 to allow for the addition of two district court judges in 2010, increasing the number of authorized judges in King County from twenty-three to twenty-five.
4. As required by RCW 3.38.040, the county's districting committee met on March 16, 2010, to amend the county's districting plan. The committee considered changes to electoral districts and the addition of new judges. The committee unanimously agreed to make no change to the existing boundaries of the court's five electoral districts, except to adopt the ministerial changes in the names and boundaries of precincts. To implement Chapter 26, Laws of Washington 2009, adding two new judges in 2010, the committee unanimously agreed to add one new judge to the northeast electoral district and one new judge to the southeast electoral district.
5. State law requires that the county document the legislative authority's approval of the of the additional judges and agreement that the county will pay out of county funds, without reimbursement from the state, the expenses of such additional judicial position as provided by statute. The coun...