Metropolitan King County Council

Hybrid Meeting

Agenda — 50 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 June 18, 2024
9. 5 Additions to the Council Agenda
10. 6 General Public Comment
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12. 12 Hearing and Second Reading of Ordinances from Standing Committees and Regional Committees, and of Ordinances related to Collective Bargaining
13. 13 There will be one public hearing on Items 6-17
14. 14 Consent Item 7
15. 7 AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $85,936,000 to the crisis care centers fund; and adding a new section to the 2023-2024 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19546. 2024-0012 Passed Pass
16. 16 Budget and Fiscal Management
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18. 8 AN ORDINANCE authorizing the issuance and sale of one or more series of sewer revenue bonds and limited tax general obligation bonds payable from sewer revenues of the county in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $1,200,000,000 to provide funds for acquiring and constructing improvements to the sewer system and to pay the costs of issuing such bonds; authorizing the issuance and sale of one or more series of sewer revenue bonds and limited tax general obligation bonds payable from sewer revenues of the county to refund outstanding obligations of the county payable from sewer revenues and to pay the costs of issuing such refunding bonds; pledging sewer revenues to pay the principal of and interest on sewer revenue bonds issued under this ordinance; amending reserve requirements; and pledging the annual levy of taxes and an additional pledge of sewer revenues to pay the principal of and interest on limited tax general obligation bonds issued under this ordinance. 2024-0161 Passed as Amended Pass
19. 18 Motions, from Standing Committees and Regional Committees and Motions related to Collective Bargaining, for Council Action
20. 19 Consent Items 9-11
21. 9 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Yasmin Ali, who resides in council district three, to the King County women's advisory board, as the district three representative. 2024-0119 Passed Pass
22. 10 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Anna Peterson, who resides in council district one, to the King County board of appeals and equalization. 2024-0139 Passed Pass
23. 11 A MOTION related to public transportation, approving the King County Metro Agency Safety Plan 2024, in accordance with the Federal Transit Administration's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan regulations and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. 2024-0192 Passed Pass
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26. 24 Reappointment Consent Agenda Items 12-17
27. 12 A MOTION confirming the executive's reappointment of Ronald Bosi, who resides in council district eight, to the King County board of appeals and equalization. 2024-0141 Passed Pass
28. 25 Passed On The Consent Agenda Passed Pass
29. 13 A MOTION confirming the executive's reappointment of Curry Mayer, who works in council district eight, to the King County emergency management advisory committee, as a representative from the city of Seattle. 2024-0150 Passed Pass
30. 14 A MOTION confirming the executive's reappointment of Carrie Martin, who works in council district eight, to the King County emergency management advisory committee, as the King County sheriff's office representative. 2024-0154 Passed Pass
31. 15 A MOTION confirming the executive's reappointment of Erik Lange, who works in council district eight, to the King County emergency management advisory committee, as the financial community representative. 2024-0158 Passed Pass
32. 16 A MOTION confirming the executive's reappointment of Heather Trim, who resides in council district eight, to the King County solid waste advisory committee, as a representative from the recycling industry. 2024-0177 Passed Pass
33. 17 A MOTION confirming the executive's reappointment of Geoff Kaiser, who resides in council district eight, to the King County investment pool advisory committee, filling the county fund manager position. 2024-0182 Passed Pass
34. 31 First Reading and Referral of Ordinances
35. 18 AN ORDINANCE relating to solid waste fees charged at recycling and transfer facilities, at the Cedar Hills regional landfill, and for construction and demolition waste disposed at landfills by construction and demolition receiving facilities; and amending Ordinance 12564, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C.10.12.021 and Ordinance 18166, Section 5, and K.C.C.4A.670.300 and establishing an effective date. 2024-0204 Introduced and Referred
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37. 33 First Reading and Referral of Motions
38. 19 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Stacey Devenney, who resides in council district eight, to the King County mental illness and drug dependency advisory committee, as a representative from the Harborview Medical Center. 2024-0047 Introduced and Referred
39. 20 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Jesse Franklin, who resides in council district eight, to the King County priority hire advisory committee. 2024-0179 Introduced and Referred
40. 35 Passed On The Consent Agenda Passed Pass
41. 21 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Aaron Garcia, who resides in council district eight, to the King County Communities of Opportunity-Best Starts for Kids levy advisory board, as a community member who reflects demographic characteristics of the communities that qualify for funding in accordance with Communities of Opportunity funding guidelines and who are grassroots organizers or activists in those communities or who live in. 2024-0195 Introduced and Referred
42. 22 A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Lindsay Goes Behind, who resides in council district eight, to the King County Communities of Opportunity-Best Starts for Kids levy advisory board, as a member with system or sector knowledge of the Communities of Opportunity result area of health. 2024-0197 Introduced and Referred
43. 23 A MOTION endorsing the Safe System approach to achieve the goal of zero traffic deaths and serious injuries in King County; and requesting that the King County executive propose a strategy to develop a coordinated, multiagency safety action plan using the Safe System approach. 2024-0206 Introduced and Referred
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45. 24 A MOTION approving a job description for the position of operations manager. Introduced and Referred
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47. 25 Reports on Special and Outside Committees
48. 42 Other Business
49. 26 Executive Session
50. 44 Adjournment