WHEREAS, World Trade Organization-related civil disturbances are causing extensive damage to businesses, public facilities, and infrastructure in the City of Seattle and King County;

WHEREAS, the Mayor of the City of Seattle has requested the assistance of the National Guard;

WHEREAS, the Washington State Military Department has activated the state Emergency Operations Center, implemented response procedures, and is coordinating resources to support local officials in alleviating the immediate social and economic impacts to people, property, and infrastructure, and is assessing the magnitude of the event;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gary Locke, Governor of the state of Washington, as a result of the aforementioned situation and under
Chapters 38.08, 38.52 and 43.06 RCW, do hereby proclaim that a State of Emergency exists in the City of Seattle and King County and direct the supporting plans and procedures to the Washington State Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan be implemented. State agencies and departments are directed to utilized state resources and to do everything possible to assist the affected political subdivisions in an effort to respond to and recover from the event. I also hereby order into active state service the Washington National Guard, or such minimum part thereof as may be necessary in the opinion of the Adjutant General, to perform such duties as directed by competent authority. Additionally, the Washington State Military Department, Emergency Management Division is instructed to coordinate all event-related assistance to the affected areas.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the state of Washington to be affixed at Olympia, this 30th day of November, A.D., Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine.
	Gary Locke Governor of Washington
BY THE GOVERNOR: Donald F. Whiting Assistant Secretary of State

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