File #: 2025-0051    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 2/4/2025 In control: Metropolitan King County Council
On agenda: Final action: 2/11/2025
Enactment date: Enactment #: 16756
Title: A MOTION appointing committees to write the voters' pamphlet statements for the April 22, 2025, special election regarding Ordinance 19884 providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County, at a special election on April 22, 2025, a proposition to reauthorize an expired regular property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a consecutive seven year period beginning in 2026 at the rate of not more than $0.0275 per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation, with the 2026 levy amount being the base for computing maximum allowable levy amounts under chapter 84.55 RCW for years two through seven (2027-2032), for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system, also known as AFIS, which maintains expanded crime scene and arrest identification technology and services for all local criminal justice agencies in King County.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: Elections, King County, Voters' Pamphlet
Attachments: 1. Motion 16756
Related files: 2024-0402

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A MOTION appointing committees to write the voters' pamphlet statements for the April 22, 2025, special election regarding Ordinance 19884 providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King County, at a special election on April 22, 2025, a proposition to reauthorize an expired regular property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a consecutive seven year period beginning in 2026 at the rate of not more than $0.0275 per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation, with the 2026 levy amount being the base for computing maximum allowable levy amounts under chapter 84.55 RCW for years two through seven (2027-2032), for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system, also known as AFIS, which maintains expanded crime scene and arrest identification technology and services for all local criminal justice agencies in King County.

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                     WHEREAS, K.C.C. chapter 1.10 provides for the publication and distribution of local voters' pamphlets in conformity with chapter 29A.32 RCW for annual general elections held in King County, and

                     WHEREAS, RCW 29A.32.280 provides that, for each measure from a jurisdiction that is included in a local voters' pamphlet, the legislative authority of that jurisdiction shall formally appoint a committee to prepare arguments advocating voter approval of the measure and whenever possible, a committee to prepare arguments advocating voter rejection of the measure, and

                     WHEREAS, RCW 29A.32.280 provides that the legislative authority shall appoint individuals residing within the jurisdictional boundaries to the committees, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 19884 provides for the submission to the qualified electors of King County, at a special election on April 22, 2025, a proposition to reauthorize an expired regular property tax levy in excess of the levy limitation contained in chapter 84.55 RCW, for a consecutive seven year period beginning in 2026 at the rate of not more than $0.0275 per one thousand dollars of assessed valuation, with the 2026 levy amount being the base for computing maximum allowable levy amounts under chapter 84.55 RCW for years two through seven (2027-2032), for the purpose of funding the continued operation of the regional automated fingerprint identification system, also known as AFIS, which maintains expanded crime scene and arrest identification technology and services for all local criminal justice agencies in King County;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     Pursuant to RCW 29A.32.280, the following individuals are appointed to serve on the voters' pamphlet committees, with each committee to write a statement for or against the proposed levy:

FOR                                                                                                                              AGAINST

1.  Patti Cole-Tindall                                                                                    1.  _____________________________

2.  Pete Von Reichbauer                                                               2.  _____________________________

3.  Jon Schuldt                                                                                                         3.  _____________________________