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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1353RESOLUTION NO. A RESOLUTION of the City council of the city of Ken~, Washington, authorizingapplications to receive funding for City projects from the King County Regional Conservation Futures Acquisition Program. WHEREAS, King County has adopted Ordinance 10750, which establishes a Regional Conservation Futures Acquisition Program to acquire land to provide a system of public open spaces necessary for the health, welfare, benefit and safety of the residents of King County; and WHEREAS, of the Sixty Million dollars ($60,000,000.00) available in this fund, fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000.00) has been allocated for projects of extraordinary regional significance and fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000.00) has been allocated for projects of extraordinary local significance; and WHEREAS, the following described property is a high priority acquisition of the City of Kent, and it either is or shall be included in the City of Kent Comprehensive and Open Space Plans, as well as any applicable Growth Management Act plans, when adopted: Kent Lagoons--Combined Storm Wetlands Facility and possibly as acres within the the Green River. Water Detention/Enhanced comprised of at least sixty much as approximately 700 City of Kent, lying East of WHEREAS, the Kent Lagoons project is a City project that best meets the criteria for allocating funds for regional and/or local 1 projects of extraordinary significance as established in attachments A and B of King County Ordinance No. 10750; and WHEREAS, the deadline for submitting applications for funding consideration for projects of extraordinary regional significance is April 21, 1993: NOW, THEREFORE, The City Council of the City of Kent, Washington, does hereby resolve as follows: Section 1. Appropriate City staff are authorized to complete application based on the appropriate County criteria for project funding under the County's Regional Conservation Futures Acquisition Program for the following project: Kent Lagoons--Combined Storm Water Detention/Enhanced Wetlands Facility comprised of at least sixty and potentially as much as approximately 700 acres within the city of Kent lying East of the Green River. Section 2. The Mayor of the City of Kent is hereby authorized to apply for grant funds from the King County Regional Conservation Futures Acquisition Program for the city Local and Regional Projects. Section 3. In conformance with the requirements of King County Ordinance No. 10750, Section 2(E), the City represents that it shall support any accepted project with a matching contribution no less than the amount of Conservation Futures funds awarded to the project, which contribution may consist of cash, land trades with a valuation verified by an appraisal by a MAI certified appraiser, or credits for other qualifying open space acquired on or after January 1, 1989. Section 4. The City also represents that it shall comply with all other obligations required in County Ordinance No. 10750. 2 Passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Kent, Washington, this OLD day of ~ , 199.!. of Concurred in by the Mayor of ~ , 199!. ATTEST: TY CLERK APPROVED AS TO FORM: I hereby certify that this Resolution No. !3 5.3 , passed of Kent, Washington, on the ~~ 3 ,;z I day KELLEHER, MAYOR is a true and correct copy of by the City C9uncil of the City day of tLy~ , 1993. tt~)