File #: 2024-0324    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/1/2024 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 1/28/2025
Enactment date: 2/6/2025 Enactment #: 19887
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2024 levy of property taxes in King County for collection in the year 2025.
Sponsors: Girmay Zahilay
Indexes: levy, Taxes
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19887, 2. 2024-0324 transmittal letter, 3. 2024-0324 Fiscal Note, 4. 2024-0324 Legislative Review Form, 5. 2024-0324_SR_TaxyLevyCerts, 6. 2024-0324 AMD S1_StrikingAMD_CorrectedLevies, 7. 2024-0324_RevisedSR_TaxyLevyCerts
Staff: Paribello, Brandi
Drafter
Clerk 01/22/2025
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2024 levy of property taxes in King County for collection in the year 2025.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The county assessor of King County has certified to the metropolitan King County council that the assessed valuation of the County of King as finally equalized amounts to $866,805,846,210.
SECTION 2. The metropolitan King County council imposes the levies necessary to fund estimated expenditures for the year 2024 as listed in this section. These amounts do not include the total of estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, including available surplus and such expenditures as are to be net from bond warrant issues. In accordance with state law, the King County assessor calculated a sum for property taxes available to the county related to new construction, improvements to property, refunds, and any increase in the assessed value of state assessed property. In calculating the amount of regular property tax moneys needed, the council was cognizant of these sums, and they are therefore included in the following levy totals.
FUND TAX
COUNTY
CURRENT EXPENSE $430,767,831
HUMAN SERVICES FUND/MENTAL HEALTH $8,001,597
VETERANS' AID $3,565,331
VETERANS, SENIORS AND HUMAN SERVICES $86,332,050
PARKS $169,972,676
BEST STARTS FOR KIDS $154,573,276
CRISIS CARE CENTERS $122,194,477
UNLIMITED G.O. BONDS $18,970,000
CONSERVATION FUTURES $53,949,500
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES $191,836,242
TRANSIT $34,151,121
MARINE $7,181,825
COUNTY HOSPITAL $86,680,585
TOTAL COUNTY $1,368,176,511
SECTION 3. A. The King County council imposes the levy necessary to fund estimated expenditures for the year 2025 as listed in this section. This amount does not include the total of estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, including available surplus and such expenditures as are to be net from bond warrant issues. In accordance with state law, the King County ...

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