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HOUSE BILL 2829
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By Representatives Wineberry, Schmidt, Jacobsen, Neher, Locke, Heavey, Brough, Beck, Peery, Wang, Ogden, Fraser, Anderson, Nelson, Valle, Hargrove, Ludwig, Prentice, Brekke, O'Brien, Leonard, Betrozoff, J. Kohl, Franklin and Ferguson
Read first time 01/28/92. Referred to Committee on Capital Facilities & Financing.
AN ACT Relating to appropriations for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park; creating a new section; and making an appropriation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park is the result of community interest in erecting a memorial to Dr. King on Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in King county. As a work of public art, the memorial is the only one of its kind in the world. The memorial structure will be a thirty foot tall symbolic sculpture of a mountain. Composed of black granite from Zimbabwe, it is mounted in a reflecting pool and surrounded by terraced seating areas and gardens in a four and one-half acre public park. Water emanating from the top of the mountain is caught in a stainless steel band, bringing life to the sculpture both visually and with sound.
The community has raised, through private donations, five hundred thousand dollars for the construction of the memorial and is seeking forty thousand dollars as a state contribution to complete construction of the memorial and three hundred thousand dollars to landscape the public park area around the memorial.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The sum of three hundred forty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1993, from the state building construction account to the department of community development for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park. This appropriation shall be matched by at least four hundred ninety thousand dollars of cash and in-kind contributions already committed and expended for the memorial from nonstate sources.