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Clerk 09/23/2025
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AN ORDINANCE that adopts the 2026-2027 Biennial Budget and makes appropriations for the operation of county agencies and departments and capital improvements for the fiscal biennium beginning January 1, 2026, and ending December 31, 2027; and establishing an effective date.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The 2026-2027 Biennial Budget is adopted and, subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth and the several amounts hereinafter specified or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to accomplish the purposes designated, appropriations are hereby authorized to be distributed for salaries, wages and other expenses of the various agencies and departments of King County, for capital improvements and for other specified purposes for the fiscal biennium beginning January 1, 2026, and ending December 31, 2027, out of the funds of the county hereinafter named and set forth in the following sections.
SECTION 2. The fund appropriations are sums to cover merit pay and labor settlements. The county executive is authorized to distribute the required portions of these moneys among the affected positions in each operating fund beginning January 1, 2026.
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance, section 130 of this ordinance takes effect ten days after the executive's approval of this ordinance, as provided in the King County Charter.
SECTION 4. The definition in this section applies throughout this ordinance unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
"FTEs" means full-time equivalents.
SECTION 5. COUNTY COUNCIL - From the general fund there is hereby appropriated to:
County council $4,446,000
The maximum number of FTEs for county council shall be: 9.0
SECTION 6. COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION - From the general fund there is hereby appropriated to:
Council administration $53,175,000
The maximum number of FTEs for council administration shall be: 105.1
SECTION 7. HEARING EXAMINE...

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