Res 90-041
RESOLUTION NO.
90-41
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON, ACCEPTING GRANT FUNDS TO
IMPLEMENT THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACT OF 1990.
WHEREAS, the 1990 Washington State Legislature passed an
Act dealing with Growth Management (HB 2929) which requires all
jurisdictions
in
King
County
to
prepare
comprehensive
plans
consistent with new guidelines; and
WHEREAS,
the Act requires that jurisdictions prepare
these plans in cooperation with their neighbors and with King
County; and
WHEREAS, the Act assigns near term deadlines for th.e
completion of 1) an inventory and regulations for the protection of
resource lands and critical areas, 2) a process to identify an
urban growth area, and 3) an assessment of land use data collection
needs; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature appropriated 7.4 million dollars
for each year of the 1989-1991 biennium to assist the Department of
Communi ty Development and local governments to comply wi th and
implement the Act; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Community Development will
provide approximately 2.1 million dollars to a consortium of
general purpose governments in King county provided that 60 percent
of those governments representing 75 percent of the county's
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COpy
population agree to the grant distribution formula and to jointly
develop and cooperatively implement a work program; and
WHEREAS, a technical committee of representatives from
the City of Seattle, King County and the Suburban cities have
prepared a draft work program (Exhibit A), and a grant distribution
formula (Exhibit B); NOW, THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON,
HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
section 1.
To be eligible for a share of the Growth
Management Act grant funds, the City agrees to:
a)
Designate the King County Planning Directors as the
group which will manage the completion of the work program, receive
regular briefings on the activities and progress of the technical
forums, and coordinate preparation of the annual reports to the
State Department of Community Development (Exhibit C).
b)
Send a representative to and actively participate in
technical
forums to accomplish the work program
(Exhibit A),
specifically,
the
inventory
and protection
of
resources
and
critical areas,
the designation of an urban growth area,
and
creation of a countywide data sharing group.
c)
Adopt the grant distribution formula (Exhibit B),
which is that every general purpose government in King county will
receive
a
base
amount
of
35,000
dollars
plus
a
per
capita
allocation based on the jurisdiction's proportional share of total
county population.
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d)
Designate King County as the jurisdiction that will
accept the grant funds from the Department of Community Development
and disburse
and
administer those
funds
consistent with the
provisions of this resolution, including exhibits.
e)
Submit
a
short
written
description
of
a
high
priority project which is unique to this City and upon which the
jurisdiction intends to begin work in this funding year (September
1, 1990, to July 1, 1991).
f)
Complete the Growth Management Needs Assessment and
return it to the state Department of Communi ty Development by
January 1, 1991, with a copy to the King County Planning Division.
RESOLVED by the city Council of Federal Way, this 2nd
day of
October
, 1990.
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MAYOR, DEBRA ERTEL
ATTEST:
, MAUREEN M. SWANEY, CMC
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: September 28, 1990
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: October 2,1990
RESOLUTION NO. 90-41
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