Snohomish Health District 2/13/2019

INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SNOHOMISH HEALTH DISTRICT AND THE CITY OF EVERETT PER CAPITA CONTRIBUTION FOR HEALTH DISTRICT SERVICES This Interlocal Agreement for Per Capita Contribution for Health District Services is entered into by and between the SNOHOMISH HEALTH DISTRICT, a Washington Municipal Corporation (the District) and CITY OF EVERETT a municipal corporation of the State of Washington (the City) —collectively (the Parties), for the purpose of providing for a per capita contribution by the City for Health District Services. RECITALS WHEREAS, This Agreement is made pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act, Chapter 39.34 RCW; and WHEREAS, to promote the public health in Snohomish County, Washington, the Board of County Commissioners of Snohomish County, Washington, established a Health District on January 1, 1959, embracing all of the territory within Snohomish County, Washington, and all cities and towns therein; and WHEREAS, in 1966 the Snohomish Health District became the first local health jurisdiction in the state to organize a city-county cooperative health program with cities indicating a willingness to participate financially in support of Health District programs; and WHEREAS, on January 1, 1967, eleven of 18 cities and towns agreed to voluntarily contribute $0.50 per capita to the Health District in return for public health services; and WHEREAS, per capita contributions from towns and cities continued and in 1986, with such contributions ranging from $1.60 to $2.70 per capita until the early 1990s; and WHEREAS, in 1993, counties assumed exclusive financial responsibility for public health relying on Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET) revenues; and WHEREAS, in 2000, the Washington State Legislature repealed MVET and backfilled only 90% of lost public health funds; and WHEREAS, state funding for local public health has decreased 65.7% from a peak of$27.29 per capita in 2000 to $9.36 per capita in 2014; and WHEREAS, the Health District has experienced a 22% decrease from its 2005 funding level while the county population has increased by 14 percent in the same 10-year period; and WHEREAS, the Health District ranks 34th out of 35 local health jurisdictions in the state for public health expenditures per resident; and WHEREAS, the Health District's ability to perform its most essential functions have been severely compromised since the great recession; and WHEREAS, the Health District serves an essential public safety function whether ensuring safe food, schools, and septic systems, responding to disasters, or preventing and responding to disease outbreaks; and WHEREAS, threats to the public's health in the form of foodborne illness such as E.coli and salmonella, communicable diseases such as pertussis, tuberculosis, measles, Zika, and Ebola and natural disasters such as the Oso/SR530 mud slide respect no municipal boundaries; and ILA SHD_2019 EVERETT PER CAPITA 1 of 5