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AN ORDINANCE that adopts the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget and makes appropriations for the operation of county agencies and departments and capital improvements for the fiscal biennium beginning January 1, 2019, and ending December 31, 2020.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The 2019-2020 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, 2019, and ending December 31, 2020, out of the following funds of the county hereinafter named and set forth in the following sections.
SECTION 2. Effect of proviso or expenditure restriction veto. It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent of the council that a veto of any proviso or expenditure restriction that conditions the expenditure of a stated dollar amount or the use of FTE authority upon the performance of a specific action by an agency shall thereby reduce the appropriation authority to that agency by the stated dollar or FTE amount.
SECTION 3. 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, 2019.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding sections 1 and 3 of this ordinance, section 126 of this ordinance takes effect ten days after the executive's approval of this ordinance, as provided in the King County Charter.
SECTION 5. The definition in this section apply throughout this ordinance unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
"FTEs" means full-time equivalents.
SECTION 6. COUNTY COUNCI...

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