Redmond parks staff asked the Parks and Environmental Sustainability Committee on Sept. 23 to place a proposed sixth amendment to an interlocal cooperation agreement with King County on the Oct. 7 business meeting consent agenda. Meg Antjevein, a park operations supervisor, said the first year of the amended term calls for a single remittance of $828,220.50 from King County to the city.

The amendment updates a long-running maintenance arrangement tied to a 1989 King County bond measure that funded acquisition and development of the Redmond Watershed Preserve, Antjevein said. She told the committee the agreement has been amended several times: the 2001 amendment reduced the county's annual contribution from $30,000 to $20,000, a 2010 amendment lowered it to $6,200 after regional trail construction, and subsequent amendments have adjusted obligations for inflation.

Antjevein said the interlocal agreement assigns King County a financial obligation to support maintenance, operations and administration of trails and related systems "until the watershed has contiguous boundaries with Redmond or some other city." She told the committee that the agreement "has been working well, and we hope it continues in the future."

Committee members gave a nonbinding thumbs-up to place the amendment on the Oct. 7 consent agenda; no formal vote was taken at the Sept. 23 meeting. The committee did not discuss changes to the agreement language during the informational presentation.

No further committee direction or final council action on the amendment was recorded in the Sept. 23 meeting transcript. If the council places the item on the Oct. 7 consent agenda and it remains there, approval would typically occur during the business meeting without separate public hearing.

Staff contact: Meg Antjevein, Park Operations Supervisor.