Drafter
Clerk 09/28/2026
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AN ORDINANCE to adopt the King County department of local services, annual Road Services Division 2027-2032 Capital Improvement Program in accordance with K.C.C. 4A.100.030, to serve as the county's adopted 2027 annual road plan in accordance with RCW 36.81.130 and to serve as the county's adopted comprehensive transportation program in accordance with RCW 36.81.121.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. K.C.C. 4A.100.010 requires King County to adopt a biennial budget for such county funds as the council may determine and conduct a midbiennium review and modification for the second year of the biennium.
2. K.C.C. 4A.100.030 requires each county agency to include its capital projects in a six-year capital improvement program ("CIP") for the fiscal period and the next fiscal periods.
3. The county adopted the road services division’s six-year CIP for 2026-2031 in the 2026-2027 biennial budget.
4. RCW 36.81.121 requires that before the adoption of a roads division budget, the council must adopt a comprehensive transportation program for the next ensuing six calendar years. The purpose of the statute is to ensure that each county shall perpetually have available advanced plans looking to the future for not less than six years as a guide in carrying out a coordinated transportation plan.
5. RCW 36.81.130 requires the council to adopt an annual road plan. Any appropriations contained in a county road budget are void if the county's annual road plan is not adopted before such appropriations.
6. The proposed Road Services Division 2027-2032 Capital Improvement Program incorporates the executive's proposed amendments to the roads division capital budget included in the second omnibus supplemental budget ordinance in 2026.
7. Attachment A to this Ordinance is the Road Services Division 2027-2032 Capital Improvement Program
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The Road Services Division 2027-2032 Capital Improvement P...
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