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Clerk 11/12/2010
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AN ORDINANCE making supplemental appropriations of $14,400,000 to the open space non-bond capital fund and a $19,100,000 appropriation to the conservation futures capital fund, and amending the 2010 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 16717, Sections 120 and 122, as amended, and Attachments B and D, as amended.
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PREAMBLE:
In March 2010, the Washington state Legislature appropriated $15,000,000 solely for the Washington state Department of Ecology to assist King County in the acquisition and remediation of property on Vashon and Maury Islands.
The Maury Island shoreline initiative project protects critical shoreline along Maury Island in Puget Sound. The project seeks to acquire a two-hundred-fifty-acre site that has significant ecological value vital to the Puget Sound ecosystem and recovery of species listed under the federal Endangered Species Act.
More than seventy percent of Puget Sound's coastal wetlands and estuaries have been lost to development and other shoreline modifications. Permanent conservation of the site will protect this valuable nearshore habitat. The site also includes one mile of Puget Sound shoreline adjacent to the Maury Island aquatic reserve.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 16717, Section 120, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting therein the following:
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM - From the conservation futures capital fund an appropriation involving the specific project identified in Attachment A to this ordinance.
Fund Fund Name Amount
3151 CONSERVATION FUTURES SUBFUND $19,100,000
SECTION 2. Attachment A to this ordinance hereby amends Attachment B to Ordinance 16717, as amended, by adding thereto and inserting therein the projects listed in Attachment A to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. Ordinance 16717, Section 122, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting therein the following:
SURFACE WATER CAPITAL IMPRO...
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