1200 King County  
Courthouse  
King County  
516 Third Avenue  
Seattle, WA 98104  
Meeting Minutes  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Councilmembers: Sarah Perry, Chair;  
Jorge Barón, Vice Chair of Policy Development and Review;  
Reagan Dunn, Vice Chair of Regional Coordination;  
Claudia Balducci, Rod Dembowski, Steffanie Fain,  
Rhonda Lewis, Teresa Mosqueda, Pete von Reichbauer  
1:30 PM  
Tuesday, April 28, 2026  
Hybrid Meeting  
2ND REVISED AGENDA - ADDED ITEM 21  
DRAFT MINUTES  
Hybrid Meetings: Attend King County Council meetings in person in  
Council Chambers (Room 1001), 516 3rd Avenue in Seattle, or through  
remote access. Details on how to attend and/or provide comment remotely  
are listed below.  
HOW TO PROVIDE PUBLIC TESTIMONY: The Council values community  
input and looks forward to hearing from you. Testimony must be limited to  
items listed on the agenda for council action, unless it's the fourth  
Tuesday of the month, when the Council will hear general comment on  
matters relating to county government. You are not required to sign up in  
advance.  
There are three ways to provide public testimony:  
1. In person: You may attend the meeting in person in Council Chambers.  
2. By email: You may testify by submitting a COMMENT email. If your  
testimony is submitted before 10:00 a.m. on the day of the Council  
meeting, your email testimony will be distributed to the Councilmembers  
and appropriate staff prior to the meeting. Please submit your testimony  
by emailing clerk@kingcounty.gov.  
3. Remote attendance on the Zoom Webinar: You may provide oral public  
testimony at the meeting by connecting to the meeting via phone or  
computer using the ZOOM application at https://zoom.us/, and entering  
the Webinar ID below.  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
CONNECTING TO THE WEBINAR  
Webinar ID: 873 0459 1515  
If you do not have access to the ZOOM application, you can connect to the  
meeting by calling 1 253 215 8782 and using the Webinar ID. Connecting in  
this manner, however, may impact your ability to be unmuted to speak.  
You have the right to language access services at no cost to you. To  
request these services, please contact our Equity and Social Justice  
Coordinator, Tera Chea at (206) 477 9259 or Tera.Chea2@kingcounty.gov,  
three (3) days prior to the meeting.  
If you do not wish to be called upon for public comment during the  
meeting, please help us manage the callers and use one of the options  
below (Live Streaming or King County TV Channel 22).  
HOW TO LISTEN TO THE MEETING: There are several ways to listen to  
the meeting if you don't wish to provide public testimony:  
1. Stream online via this link: https://kingcounty.gov/kctv, or input the link  
web address into your web browser.  
2. Watch King County TV on Comcast Channel 22 and 322(HD), and  
Astound Broadband Channels 22 and 711 (HD).  
3. Listen to the meeting by telephone – See “Connecting to the Webinar”  
above.  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
1.  
2.  
Call to Order  
The meeting was called to order at 1:31 p.m.  
Roll Call  
9 -  
Present:  
Balducci, Barón, Dembowski, Dunn, Fain, Lewis, Mosqueda, Perry and von  
Reichbauer  
3.  
4.  
Flag Salute and Pledge of Allegiance  
Councilmember Dunn led the flag salute and Pledge of Allegiance.  
Approval of Minutes of April 21, 2026  
Councilmember Barón moved to approve the minutes of the April 21, 2026, meeting as  
presented. Seeing no objection, the Chair so ordered.  
5.  
6.  
Additions to the Council Agenda  
Item 21 was added to the agenda.  
Special Item  
Proclamation of April 2026 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention  
Month in King County  
Councilmember Balducci and Councilmember Barón made remarks and presented the  
proclamation to Amarinthia Torres, Co-Executive Director-Policy, Coalition Ending  
Gender-Based Violence; and Laurel Redden, Director of Communications & Policy,  
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center. Amarinthia Torres and Laurel Redden  
made remarks and thanked the Council.  
Recognition of the 51st Anniversary of the Khmer Rouge Genocide  
Councilmember Mosqueda and Councilmember Barón made remarks and presented  
the recognition to Jenny Ap, Sameth Mell, Suorsday Kadenn Sou, Sina Sam, and  
Thyda Chom. Jenny Ap, Sameth Mell, Suorsday Kadenn Sou, Sina Sam, and Thyda  
Chom made remarks and thanked the Council.  
7.  
Public Comment  
The following people spoke:  
Kevin Altheimer  
Yvette Dinish  
Alex Tsimmerman  
Danielle Wallace  
Tonya Coburn  
Susan VerGowe  
Nikki Bragg  
Melody Correia  
Joe Hannan  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Nicole Caprice  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
Whitney Schrader  
Kurt Schreiber  
Maggie Austin  
James Hietala  
Amber Spady  
Dennis Pearce  
Alex Taber  
Teresa Bechtold  
Nivedita Tanwar  
Raj Jadeja  
Tim Brown  
Vera Volk  
Charles Vision  
Jon Schrader  
Sonu Batra  
Travis Grizzel  
Michael Westgaard  
Austin Field  
Scott Boze  
Joseph Smith  
Daniel Alvarado  
John Houston  
Jaeden Noll  
Ryan Porter  
Wren McDonald  
Jeremy Ward  
Gerry Grasseth  
Aidan Farr  
Travis Butcher  
Casey Gifford  
Richard Wilson  
Erin Fenner  
Andy Strehler  
Rachel Brown  
Lucas Smith  
Chuck Lare  
Zac Pinard  
Luka Ukrainczyk  
Bonnie Helms  
Ben Tibbetts  
Tarn Ohana  
Oliver Hansen  
Patricia Traub  
Kristine Moreland  
Marissa Bean  
Jacki Riley  
Lexyy Power  
Brayden Pittsenbarger  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
First Reading and Referral of Ordinances  
8.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0091  
AN ORDINANCE approving an application for current use assessment for public benefit rating system,  
submitted by Debbie Mallery and John Van Wieringen for property located at 26218 SE 464th Street,  
Enumclaw, WA 98022, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources  
division file no. E25CT005.  
Perry  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Hearing Examiner.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0092  
Sponsors:  
9.  
AN ORDINANCE approving an application for current use assessment for public benefit rating system,  
submitted by Robert Deppiesse for property located at 29609 Cherry Valley Road NE, Duvall, WA 98019,  
designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no.  
E25CT007.  
Perry  
This matter was Introduced and Referred to the Hearing Examiner  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0093  
Sponsors:  
10.  
AN ORDINANCE approving an application for current use assessment for public benefit rating system,  
submitted by GROW Inc. for property located at 16034 Greenwood Avenue N, Shoreline, WA 98133,  
designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no.  
E25CT019SH.  
Perry  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Hearing Examiner.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0094  
Sponsors:  
11.  
AN ORDINANCE approving an application for current use assessment for public benefit rating system,  
submitted by GROW Inc. for property located at 4807 SW 54th Street, Seattle, WA 98116, designated  
department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no. E25CT021S.  
Perry  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Hearing Examiner.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0095  
Sponsors:  
12.  
AN ORDINANCE approving an application for current use assessment for public benefit rating system,  
submitted by Peter Schilling for properties located at 4447 and 14823 S 148th Street, Tukwila, WA  
98027, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no.  
E25CT026T.  
Perry  
Sponsors:  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Hearing Examiner.  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
13.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0096  
AN ORDINANCE approving an application for current use assessment for public benefit rating system,  
submitted by Kerry and Sarah Dochow for property located at 31515 NE Tolt Hill Road, Carnation, WA  
98014, designated department of natural resources and parks, water and land resources division file no.  
E25CT031.  
Perry  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Hearing Examiner.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0099  
Sponsors:  
14.  
AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the collective bargaining agreement negotiated by and between  
King County and the King County Juvenile Detention Guild, representing juvenile detention officers in the  
juvenile division of the department of adult and juvenile detention; and establishing the effective date of  
said agreement.  
Perry  
Sponsors:  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Metropolitan King  
County Council.  
15.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0101  
AN ORDINANCE relating to the prevention, detection, and response to fraud, waste, and abuse of  
county-administered moneys, and creating an inspector general division within the office of public  
complaints.  
Dembowski, Dunn, Perry, von Reichbauer and Fain  
Sponsors:  
This matter was Introduced and Referred to the Government Accountability  
and Oversight Committee  
16.  
Proposed Ordinance No. 2026-0102  
AN ORDINANCE approving and adopting the Coalition Labor Agreement negotiated by and between King  
County and the King County Coalition of Unions representing employees in the departments of executive  
services, local services, natural resources and parks, public health, and King County sheriff's office; and  
establishing the effective date of the agreements.  
Perry  
Sponsors:  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Metropolitan King  
County Council.  
First Reading and Referral of Motions  
17.  
Proposed Motion No. 2026-0085  
A MOTION approving the extension of the executive's appointment of Megan Pedersen as acting director  
of the King County department of human resources.  
Barón  
Sponsors:  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Committee of the  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Whole.  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
18.  
Proposed Motion No. 2026-0089  
A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Brian Flaherty, who resides in council district nine,  
to the public defense advisory board, representing the Washington Defender Association.  
Dunn  
Sponsors:  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Law and Justice  
Committee.  
19.  
Reports on Special and Outside Committees  
Other Business  
Required notification pursuant to K.C.C. 4A.100.080  
20.  
April 21, 2026, Exception Notification Regarding Transfer from the Public  
Transportation Infrastructure Capital Fund to the Metro Facility Security  
Improvements Budget - Project Number 1141996.  
Chair Perry announced that under K.C.C. 4A.100.080 a transfer of emergent need  
contingency exceeding 25% of total project costs shall be noticed on two council  
agendas to give councilmembers an opportunity to object at either of these meetings.  
In addition to the April 28, 2026, agenda the notification will also be included on the  
May 5, 2026, agenda. Unless a councilmember objects, the transfer will go forward.  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Meeting Minutes  
April 28, 2026  
Added Item 21  
First Reading and Referral of Motions  
21.  
Proposed Motion No. 2026-0107  
A MOTION relating to the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, providing notice of King  
County's intent to terminate participation in the authority under the Amended and Restated Interlocal  
Agreement.  
Dembowski and Dunn  
Sponsors:  
This matter had its first reading and was referred to the Committee of the  
Whole.  
Adjournment  
The Chair adjourned the meeting in honor of Larry Evans at 3:54 p.m.