File #: 2025-0291    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/7/2025 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/9/2025
Enactment date: 12/19/2025 Enactment #: 20025
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the county property tax levies for collection in 2026, and implementing RCW 84.55.120.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski
Indexes: levy, Property Tax
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 20025, 2. 2025-0291 Striking Amendment S1, 3. 2025-0291 transmittal letter, 4. 2025-0291 Fiscal Note, 5. 2025-0291 Legislative Review Form, 6. 2025-0291 0292_SR_TaxyLevyCerts
Staff: Sanders, April

Title

AN ORDINANCE relating to the county property tax levies for collection in 2026, and implementing RCW 84.55.120.

Body

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The council is under an obligation by charter to enact revenue measures that support the budget appropriation ordinance by December 1, 2025, for the 2026 budget.  This ordinance sets the amount of property tax to be collected for the regular property tax levy, the transit levy, the road district levy, the conservation futures levy, marine levy, and the county hospital levy.  In accordance with RCW 84.55.120, the council has given proper notice of this ordinance to the public.

                     SECTION 2.  For collection of the property tax levies in 2026, the council hereby authorizes property tax changes compared to the amounts authorized for collection in 2025 as follows:

 Levy

Estimated Dollar Increase

% Increase

Estimated Total Levy

Regular Levy (includes new 2025 voter-approved AFIS levy under Ordinance 19884, and parks levy under Ordinance 19922)

$76,117,047

7.80362%

$1,051,524,285

Regular - Transit

$226,074

0.66198%

$34,377,195

Road District

$628,221

0.61489%

$102,796,146

Conservation Futures

$1,171,070

2.16902%

$55,161,810

Emergency Medical Services (New 2025 voter-approved levy, under Ordinance 19950)

$37,135,098

19.35771%

$228,971,340

Marine

$71,818

1.00000%

$7,253,643

County Hospital

$50,271,732

57.99653%

$136,952,317

The 2026 estimated levies above are exclusive of increases resulting from new construction, increases in value of state-assessed property, and estimated amounts necessary to fund tax refunds.

                     SECTION 3.  Upon enactment, the clerk is directed to forward this ordinance to the assessor in accordance with RCW 84.52.070.