CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the Opportunity Fund category of the 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy; authorizing the acceptance of monetary donations from the Seattle Parks Foundation, Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm, and Seattle Tilth to support the existing Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands Improvements project (K730153); increasing appropriations to the Department of Parks and Recreation in the 2015 Adopted Budget; and amending the 2015-2020 Adopted Capital Improvement Program; all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.
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WHEREAS, Ordinance 122749 authorized a proposition to be submitted to Seattle's voters that would levy for up to six years regular property taxes in excess of the limitation on levies in Chapter 84.55 RCW for the purposes of acquiring, developing, or restoring parks, recreation facilities, cultural facilities, green spaces, playfields, trails, community gardens, and shoreline areas; and
WHEREAS, the proposed 2008 Parks and Green Spaces Levy (2008 Parks Levy) was approved by Seattle voters on November 4, 2008; and
WHEREAS, the 2008 Parks Levy program includes an Opportunity Fund, making available up to $15,000,000 to fund acquisition and development projects not identified for funding in the remainder of the 2008 Parks Levy program; and
WHEREAS, in 2011, the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands (RBUFW) Improvements Project (K730153) was allocated $500,000 within the Opportunity Fund via Ordinance 123560 to develop an urban agriculture project, transforming the former Atlantic City Nursery into a working urban farm and demonstration wetlands restoration site; and
WHEREAS, in 1998, City Council Resolution 29781 affirmed the desire of the City for an independent parks foundation to increase resources available for parks purposes in Seattle; and
WHEREAS, in 2011, Seattle Tilth (Tilth) and the Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetland...
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