WASHINGTON STATUTES AND CODES

71.09.255 - Transition facilities -- Incentive grants and payments.

Transition facilities — Incentive grants and payments.

(1) Upon receiving the notification required by RCW 71.09.250, counties must promptly notify the cities within the county of the maximum number of secure community transition facility beds that may be required and the projected number of beds to be needed in that county.

     (2) The incentive grants and payments provided under this section are subject to the following provisions:

     (a) Counties and the cities within the county must notify each other of siting plans to promote the establishment and equitable distribution of secure community transition facilities;

     (b) Development regulations, ordinances, plans, laws, and criteria established for siting must be consistent with statutory requirements and rules applicable to siting and operating secure community transition facilities;

     (c) The minimum size for any facility is three beds; and

     (d) The department must approve any sites selected.

     (3) Any county or city that makes a commitment to initiate the process to site one or more secure community transition facilities by one hundred twenty days after March 21, 2002, shall receive a planning grant as proposed and approved by the *department of community, trade, and economic development.

     (4) Any county or city that has issued all necessary permits by May 1, 2003, for one or more secure community transition facilities that comply with the requirements of this section shall receive an incentive grant in the amount of fifty thousand dollars for each bed sited.

     (5) To encourage the rapid permitting of sites, any county or city that has issued all necessary permits by January 1, 2003, for one or more secure community transition facilities that comply with the requirements of this section shall receive a bonus in the amount of twenty percent of the amount provided under subsection (4) of this section.

     (6) Any county or city that establishes secure community transition facility beds in excess of the maximum number that could be required to be sited in that county shall receive a bonus payment of one hundred thousand dollars for each bed established in excess of the maximum requirement.

     (7) No payment shall be made under subsection (4), (5), or (6) of this section until all necessary permits have been issued.

     (8) The funds available to counties and cities under this section are contingent upon funds being appropriated by the legislature.