File #: 2025-0249    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: To Be Introduced
File created: 8/19/2025 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action:
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Title: AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 19862, enacted December 2, 2024, which authorized the issuance of limited tax general obligation bonds of the county; and amending Ordinance 19862, Section 1, as amended, Section 2, as amended, Section 4, as amended, Section 13, as amended, Section 17, as amended, and Section 19, as amended, and repealing Ordinance 19954, Attachment B.
Sponsors: Teresa Mosqueda
Indexes: Bonds, Taxes
Attachments: 1. B. List of Projects and Associated Funds, 2. 2025-0249 Transmittal Letter, 3. 2025-0249 Fiscal Note, 4. 2025-0249 Legislative Review Form
Related files: 2025-0158, 2024-0307
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Clerk 08/14/2025
Title
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 19862, enacted December 2, 2024, which authorized the issuance of limited tax general obligation bonds of the county; and amending Ordinance 19862, Section 1, as amended, Section 2, as amended, Section 4, as amended, Section 13, as amended, Section 17, as amended, and Section 19, as amended, and repealing Ordinance 19954, Attachment B.
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PREAMBLE:
Pursuant to RCW 39.46.110 and other county authority, the county may issue limited tax general obligation bonds payable from tax revenues of the county and such other money lawfully available and pledged or provided by the county council.
The county council has either previously reviewed and approved or expects to review and approve the capital improvement projects of the county as generally described in Ordinance 19862 ("the Original Ordinance").
Pursuant to the Original Ordinance, the county authorized the issuance and sale from time to time one or more series of its limited tax general obligation bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $604,000,000 to provide financing for these projects as identified in the Original Ordinance, and to pay the costs of issuing the bonds.
In addition to the projects identified in the Original Ordinance, the county council has either previously reviewed and approved or expects to review and approve a project to replace the distributed antenna system at the King County Correctional Facility, the King County Courthouse, and the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center, and the acquisition of and improvements to a plant used to process and convert landfill gas to generate alternate gas products or energy and related facilities and infrastructure.
Pursuant to Ordinance 19954, the county amended the Original Ordinance to identify these additional projects as projects for which the county may provide financing from the sale of limited tax general obligation bonds authorized by the Original Ordinance, as amended by Or...

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