Metropolitan King County Council

Hybrid Meeting

Agenda — 44 items

1. 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. 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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5. 1 Call to Order
6. 2 Roll Call
7. 3 Flag Salute and Pledge of Allegiance
8. 4 Approval of Minutes of October 8, 2024
9. 5 Additions to the Council Agenda
10. 6 Special Item
11. 11 Proclamation of October 2024 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in King County.
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13. 13 Hearing and Second Reading of Ordinances from Standing Committees and Regional Committees, and of Ordinances related to Collective Bargaining
14. 14 There will be one public hearing on Items 6-12
15. 15 Consent Item 7
16. 7 AN ORDINANCE relating to the withdrawal of approximately 25 acres of land from the Sammamish Plateau water and sewer district to the Ames Lake water association, known as the Ames Lake Road water de-annexation, for the purpose of water service. 2024-0259 Passed Pass
17. 17 Committee of the Whole
18. 8 AN ORDINANCE relating to the imposition of a natural resource conservation rate and charge in the King Conservation District and authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement between King County and the King Conservation District. 2024-0278 Passed Pass
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20. 20 Metropolitan King County Council
21. 9 AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the memorandum of agreement negotiated by and between King County and the Washington State Nurses Association, representing nurse supervisors and managers in the department of public health and establishing the effective date of the agreement. 2024-0332 Passed Pass
22. 10 AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the memorandum of agreement negotiated by and between King County and the Washington State Nurses Association, representing nurse staff in the department of juvenile detention and the department of public health and establishing the effective date of the agreement. 2024-0333 Passed Pass
23. 23 Motions, from Standing Committees and Regional Committees and Motions related to Collective Bargaining, for Council Action
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25. 24 Consent Item 11
26. 11 A MOTION approving the extension of the executive's appointment of Ed Carter as acting director of the community corrections division within the King County department of adult and juvenile detention. 2024-0290 Passed Pass
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28. 27 Committee of the Whole
29. 12 A MOTION expressing the King County council's opposition to the approval of Washington state Initiative 2066, which, if approved by voters, would repeal or prohibit certain laws and regulations that discourage natural gas use, or promote electrification, or both, and require certain utilities and local governments to provide natural gas to eligible customers. 2024-0331 Passed as Amended Pass
30. 29 SUBJECT TO A MOTION TO RELIEVE THE COMMITTEE OF FURTHER CONSIDERATION PURSUANT TO K.C.C. 1.24.125
31. 30 BALLOT TITLE: Initiative Measure No. 2066 Statement of Subject: Initiative Measure No. 2066 concerns regulating energy services, including natural gas and electrification. Concise Description: This measure would repeal or prohibit certain laws and regulations that discourage natural gas use, and/or promote electrification, and require certain utilities and local governments to provide natural gas to eligible customers.
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33. 32 First Reading and Referral of Ordinances
34. 13 AN ORDINANCE extending an existing moratorium by six months, prohibiting the acceptance of applications for the establishment of new or expansion of existing wineries, breweries, distilleries, and remote tasting rooms, as primary or accessory uses or as home occupations or home industries; and prohibiting temporary use permits for wineries, breweries, distilleries, and remote tasting rooms. 2024-0254 Introduced and Referred
35. 14 AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the Memorandum of Agreement negotiated by and between King County and the Teamsters Local Union No. 174, representing truck driver III, utility worker (tipper classification), and scale operator employees working in the solid waste division of the department of natural resources and parks, and establishing the effective date of the agreement. 2024-0340 Introduced and Referred
36. 35 First Reading and Referral of Motions
37. 15 A MOTION approving the extension of the executive's appointment of Ed Carter as acting director of the community corrections division within the King County department of adult and juvenile detention. 2024-0334 Introduced and Referred
38. 16 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Merob Kebede, who resides in council district six, to the King County children and youth advisory board, as the youth representative. 2024-0336 Introduced and Referred
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40. 17 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Hattie Steward, who resides in council district five, to the King County children and youth advisory board, as an at-large representative. 2024-0338 Introduced and Referred
41. 18 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Angela Phan, who resides in council district six, to the King County children and youth advisory board, as an at-large representative. 2024-0339 Introduced and Referred
42. 19 Reports on Special and Outside Committees
43. 42 Other Business
44. 43 Adjournment