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"Credit" means a monetary payment or reduction in present or future balance due to the Planning and Public Works Department.

"Department" means the Planning and Public Works Department.

"Director" means the Planning and Public Works Director.

"Eligible charges and fees" means monetary payments paid by the family-wage jobs credit applicant or the applicant's agent to Pierce County after December 31, 2016, for building permits, critical area review, traffic impact fees, sewer connection charges, and land use actions such as conditional permits and variances. Expressly excluded from the definition of eligible charges and fees are state building code charges and fees, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department charges and fees, fire inspection charges and fees, residential land use action charges and fees, and residential building permit or associated application charges and fees.

"Eligible employer" means an individual or entity that has created and filled at least five new family-wage jobs in unincorporated Pierce County after January 1, 2019, and has paid, or whose agent has paid, an eligible charge or fee to Pierce County.

"Family-wage job" means an ongoing employment relationship of indefinite duration in which an employee is compensated by an employer at a gross annualized rate, excluding employer-paid benefits such as health benefits and pension payments of any type, at or above 80 percent of the most recent calculation of Pierce County's median annual household income by the Washington State Office of Financial Management, which is $52,197 for calendar year 2019.

"New family-wage job" means a family-wage job that an employer did not advertise or fill in the previous calendar year that results in a net increase in employees employed by the employer in unincorporated Pierce County compared to the previous calendar year.

(Ord. 2018-51s § 1 (part), 2018)