File #: 2025-0328    Version: 1
Type: Motion Status: To Be Introduced
File created: 10/7/2025 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the spending plan for $46,000,000 of county hospital levy revenue to be expended or encumbered solely to support Harborview Medical Center operations for the fiscal year 2026 as required under the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 102, Expenditure Restriction E3.
Sponsors: Claudia Balducci
Indexes: Budget, Harborview, levy
Attachments: 1. FY26 Budget - Operating Tax Expense Summary v2
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A MOTION acknowledging receipt of the spending plan for $46,000,000 of county hospital levy revenue to be expended or encumbered solely to support Harborview Medical Center operations for the fiscal year 2026 as required under the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 102, Expenditure Restriction E3.

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                     WHEREAS, the metropolitan King County council adopted the 2025 budget, Ordinance 19861 on November 19, 2024, which allocated $46,000,000 in revenue from the new county hospital levy to support Harborview Medical Center operations, and

                     WHEREAS, the 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 102, Expenditure Restriction E3, requires the University of Washington Medicine to inform the Harborview Board of Trustees ("the board") of the spending plan for the $46,000,000 of county hospital levy revenue ("the spending plan") as part of the board’s budget process for fiscal year 2026, the board to approve the spending plan, and the council to pass a motion acknowledging receipt of the board-approved spending plan, releasing the expenditure restriction, and

                     WHEREAS, the University of Washington Medicine informed the board of the spending plan, and

                     WHEREAS, the board of approved the spending plan on July 24, 2025;

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

                     The receipt of the spending plan approved by the Harborview Board of Trustees, Attachment A to this motion, is hereby acknowledged in accordance with 2025 Annual Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 19861, Section 102, Expenditure Restriction E3.