Metropolitan King County Council
Hybrid Meeting
Agenda — 45 items
- 1 Hybrid Meetings: Attend King County Council meetings in person in Council Chambers (Room 1001), 516 3rd Avenue in Seattle, or through remote access. Details on how to attend and/or provide comment remotely are listed below. HOW TO PROVIDE PUBLIC TESTIMONY: The Council values community input and looks forward to hearing from you. Testimony must be limited to items listed on the agenda for council action, unless it's the fourth Tuesday of the month, when the Council will hear general comment on matters relating to county government. You are not required to sign up in advance. There are three ways to provide public testimony: 1. In person: You may attend the meeting in person in Council Chambers. 2. By email: You may testify by submitting a COMMENT email. If your testimony is submitted before 10:00 a.m. on the day of the Council meeting, your email testimony will be distributed to the Councilmembers and appropriate staff prior to the meeting. Please submit your testimony by emailing clerk@kingcounty.gov. 3. Remote attendance on the Zoom Webinar: You may provide oral public testimony at the meeting by connecting to the meeting via phone or computer using the ZOOM application at https://zoom.us/, and entering the Webinar ID below.
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- 3 CONNECTING TO THE WEBINAR Webinar ID: 890 5838 1493 If you do not have access to the ZOOM application, you can connect to the meeting by calling 1 253 215 8782 and using the Webinar ID. Connecting in this manner, however, may impact your ability to be unmuted to speak. You have the right to language access services at no cost to you. To request these services, please contact our Equity and Social Justice Coordinator, Tera Chea at (206) 477 9259 or Tera.Chea2@kingcounty.gov, three (3) days prior to the meeting. If you do not wish to be called upon for public comment during the meeting, please help us manage the callers and use one of the options below (Live Streaming or King County TV Channel 22). HOW TO LISTEN TO THE MEETING: There are several ways to listen to the meeting if you don't wish to provide public testimony: 1. Stream online via this link: https://kingcounty.gov/kctv, or input the link web address into your web browser. 2. Watch King County TV on Comcast Channel 22 and 322(HD), and Astound Broadband Channels 22 and 711 (HD). 3. Listen to the meeting by telephone – See “Connecting to the Webinar” above.
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- 1 Call to Order
- 2 Roll Call
- 3 Flag Salute and Pledge of Allegiance
- 4 Approval of Minutes of July 15, 2025
- 5 Additions to the Council Agenda
- 6 Special Item
- 11 Recognition of Captain Dan Krehbiel upon his retirement from King County Water Taxi
- 7 Public Comment
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- 14 Hearing and Second Reading of Ordinances from Standing Committees and Regional Committees, and of Ordinances related to Collective Bargaining
- 15 There will be one public hearing on Items 6-12
- 16 Consent Item 8
- 8 AN ORDINANCE relating to existing regional transportation boards, including the SeaShore Transportation Forum, the Eastside Transportation Partnership, and the South County Area Transportation Board; authorizing the executive to enter into agreements for their continuation and committing to King County staff support through 2028.
- 18 Budget and Fiscal Management
- 9 AN ORDINANCE imposing an additional sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent, as authorized in Section 201, Chapter 350, Laws of Washington 2025 for criminal justice purposes; providing for the use of the sales and use tax proceeds for eligible expenditures; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.500.
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- 21 Transportation, Economy, and Environment
- 10 AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an agreement with respect to the purchase of the landfill gas processing plant located at the Cedar Hills regional landfill.
- 23 Motions, from Standing Committees and Regional Committees and Motions related to Collective Bargaining, for Council Action
- 24 Consent Item 11
- 11 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Marsha Matsumoto, who resides in council district four, to the King County board of ethics.
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- 27 First Reading of and Action on Motions Without Referral to Committee
- 12 A MOTION appointing committees to write the voters' pamphlet statements for the November 4, 2025, election regarding Ordinance 19950 providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County, at special election on November 4, 2025, of a proposition to continue funding for the countywide Medic One emergency medical services system by authorizing a regular property tax levy for a consecutive six year period, for collection beginning in 2026, at a rate of $0.25 or less per $1,000 of assessed valuation, to provide for Medic One emergency medical services.
- 29 SUBJECT TO A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO TAKE ACTION WITHOUT REFERRAL TO COMMITTEE PURSUANT TO K.C.C. 1.24.085
- 30 First Reading and Referral of Ordinances
- 13 AN ORDINANCE relating to the levy collection of the sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent for the delivery of behavioral health services and therapeutic courts authorized by RCW 82.14.460; continuing the sales and use tax; adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.500, establishing an effective date, and establishing an expiration date.
- 32 This is a dual referral first to the Budget and Fiscal Management Committee and then to the Regional Policy Committee. This is a nonmandatory referral to the Regional Policy Committee under K.C.C. 1.24.065.I as an issue that would benefit from interjurisdictional discussion.
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- 14 AN ORDINANCE related to civil immigration enforcement; amending Ordinance 18665, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.15.005, and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 2.15.
- 35 First Reading and Referral of Motions
- 15 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Jonathan Deex, who resides in council district nine, to the King County community advisory committee on law enforcement oversight, as a representative from King County sheriff contract cities.
- 16 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Daisy Wong, who resides in council district nine, to the King County human and civil rights commission.
- 17 A MOTION accepting the King County Clean Water Healthy Habitat Strategic Plan 2020-2025 in accordance with Ordinance 19881, Section 377.
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- 18 A MOTION accepting the King County 30-Year Forest Plan in accordance with Ordinance 19881, Section 377.
- 19 Reports on Special and Outside Committees
- 42 Other Business
- 43 First Reading and Referral of Ordinances
- 20 AN ORDINANCE outlining the intended sequencing of steps to acquire property interests needed for the RapidRide I Line project; and authorizing the condemnation of real property to obtain fee title, easements, and other rights in property for the construction of the RapidRide I Line in the cities of Renton, Kent, and Auburn.
- 46 Adjournment