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4 <br /> • A structural modification in property tax statutes to tie annual growth to an <br /> inflationary index rather than to a 1 percent limit that prevents cities and counties from <br /> keeping up with year-to-year increases in the costs of delivering services; <br /> • Gradually restoring liquor revolving account("liquor profit") revenues that were <br /> effectively capped in statute in 2012. The City supports the idea of targeting 60 percent <br /> of restored revenues toward criminal justice/public safety needs; <br /> • Strive to protect state-shared revenues and existing distributions that are vital to <br /> helping cities meet their obligations. These include liquor, marijuana and municipal <br /> criminal justice assistance; Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) Mitigation payments; and Fire <br /> Insurance Premium Tax distributions to help the City meet the LEOFF 1 medical <br /> obligations that are part of an overall $43 million-plus unfunded liability for LEOFF 1. <br /> Create a New Local-Option Incentive for Economic Development <br /> Everett will strongly support legislation being initiated by the City of Tacoma to provide local- <br /> option incentives to cities outside King County for inducing the construction of Class A office <br /> space. Cities would be authorized to use their own local funds and taxing sources as the basis <br /> of the incentives. Absent such incentives, cities outside King County are at a severe economic- <br /> development disadvantage, because the cost of construction is the same as in King County, but <br /> the buildings cannot return the same high rents as in King County. <br /> Strengthen the Public Records Act (PRA) and Make It Easier to Administer <br /> Everett strongly supports the transparency and open government objectives underlying the PRA <br /> and strives to provide records to citizens in a timely way. But in some cases, records requests <br /> are harassment-related or result in significant resource demands without cost recovery. As a <br /> result, the City will be supportive of 2017 legislation to update the PRA, particularly with respect <br /> to: <br /> • Providing an Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism to settle conflicts over <br /> burdensome requests; <br /> • Establishing a cost recovery mechanism for processing things such as electronic <br /> records requests; <br /> • Making statutory changes around what constitutes an "identifiable" record or set of <br /> records for purposes of PRA responses — so that requests for "any and all" records <br /> would not be considered a legitimate request. <br /> A <br />