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Committee approves amendment to Doors Open plan to allow advance payments to cultural groups
Summary
The Regional Policy Committee voted March 12 to send Proposed Ordinance 2025-0073 with a due-pass recommendation to full council. The ordinance would let 4Culture contract for and advance 2024 tax proceeds to cultural organizations and requires two new progress reports on contracts and payments.
The Regional Policy Committee on March 12 approved Proposed Ordinance 2025-0073 with a due-pass recommendation to the full King County Council, amending the Doors Open implementation plan to allow 4Culture to issue advance payments of 2024 tax proceeds to cultural organizations and to add new reporting requirements.
The change responds to what staff described as “exigent circumstances” facing cultural organizations, allowing contracts to be based on applicants’ September 2024 submissions, permitting one-time advance payments funded by 2024 proceeds, and requiring two reports: a contract-status report due to council by April 30, 2025, and a payments-status report due July 31, 2025.
Council staff summary
Council staff presented the ordinance and the redline changes to the Doors Open implementation plan. Staff said the ordinance would (1) update the sustained-support application description to reflect combined one-time 2024 operating support with the multi-year sustained program; (2) create a new contract and payment process for the first year of sustained support that would allow advance payments tied to the services described in applicants’ September 2024 applications; and…
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