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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1764

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representatives Ebersole, Grimm, Meyers, Wineberry, Armstrong and Winsley

Read first time 1/25/88 and referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

AN ACT Relating to the Goodwill Games; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The state of Washington has been selected as the site for the 1990 Goodwill Games.  The Goodwill Games are a unique opportunity for the state to promote tourism and enhance international trade and commerce through a world class sports competition involving athletes from over fifty nations.  The Goodwill Games are unlike any other event that has occurred in the Pacific Northwest.  The success of the games requires intense local, state, national, and international cooperation and commitment to provide facilities to host international competitions, art events, and cultural exchanges.  Therefore, as the state's commitment to ensure the safe and successful staging of the 1990 Goodwill Games, the sum of seven million eight hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1989, from the state building construction account to the department of community development for the following projects:

          (1) Four million five hundred thousand dollars for construction of a new indoor aquatics center in Tacoma.  This appropriation is contingent on the provision of at least an additional ten million dollars from nonstate sources for this project;

          (2) Two million five hundred thousand dollars for improvements to the King County Marymoor Park Velodrome in Redmond;

          (3) Eight hundred thousand dollars for improvements to the equestrian center in Enumclaw.