HomeMy WebLinkAbout1205RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the
City of Kent, Washington, relating to funding
for human services to establish a predictable
funding base for human services out of the City
of Kent General Fund.
WHEREAS, the city Council created the Kent Human Services
Commission to serve in an advisory capacity to the Mayor, the
Council, and the City Administrator by Ordinance 2655; and
WHEREAS, the city of Kent has been consistently
supportive of meeting human services needs in the community
beginning in 1974 and designating revenue sharing funds and
general fund dollars for such need; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has the responsibility, among
other things, to evaluate and recommend funding requests upon the
determination of priorities of human service needs within the City
of Kent; and
WHEREAS, the Human Services Commission has made certain
recommendations to the Council to adequately address the human
services need in the community; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has found that requests
consistently exceed money available for human services; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has established criteria for
selection of and determination of the priorities for human
services needs as set forth in Report of the Human Services Study
Committee and Human Services Policies which is adopted by the Kent
City council in August, 1986; and
WHEREAS, the Human Services Commission on January 26 and
March 28, 1989 proposed that the City Council approve a funding
basis for human services which is one percent of the current
year's General Fund revenue budget to determine the following
year's funding base for human services; and
WHEREAS, the city Council had adopted a target issue of
establishing a dedicated funding source for human services; and
WHEREAS, a permanent funding base would set forth the
threshold of dollars for a given year, strengthening the process
and allowing for long-range planning for provision of human
services to City of Kent resident; and
WHEREAS, the Kent City Council Planning Committee
reviewed this proposal at its meetings on February 21, 1989,
March 7, 1989, and April 4, 1989, and on April 4, 1989,
recommended to the City Council as a whole approval of the Human
Services Commission's one (1) percent proposal; and
WHEREAS, this recommendation was presented to the Kent
City council at its meeting on April 18, 1989, wherein the Council
heard public testimony and reviewed all records before it; NOW,
THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Human Services Commission shall make
recommendations on funding requests to the City Council for direct
services to the City of Kent residents according to the criteria
set forth in Report of the Human Services Study Committee on Human
Services Policies, adopted by the City Council in August, 1986.
Section 2. Each budget year the City Council will
allocate an amount equal to one percent of the current year's
General Fund revenue budget to the subsequent year budget for
human services purposes as established in Chapter 2.39, Kent City
Code, now or as hereinafter amended.
Passed at a regular
City of Kent, Washington this
~Concurred in by the
day of Jill{~· , 1989.
ATTEST:
meeting of the City Council of the
~ day of 221~ 1989.
of the City of Kent, this ~
KELLEHER, MAYOR
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
-~~ SANDRA DRISCOLL, Ciji ATTORNEY
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
Resolution No. I d. o5 ' passed by the City Council of the City of
Kent, Washington, the /(a day of 2114:.tf , 1989.
7210-260
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