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Courthouse  
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Meeting Agenda  
Metropolitan King County Council  
Councilmembers: Girmay Zahilay, Chair;  
Sarah Perry, Vice Chair of Policy Development and Review;  
Reagan Dunn, Vice Chair of Regional Coordination;  
Claudia Balducci, Jorge L. Barón, Rod Dembowski,  
Teresa Mosqueda, De'Sean Quinn, Pete von Reichbauer  
1:30 PM  
Tuesday, July 22, 2025  
Hybrid Meeting  
REVISED AGENDA - ADDED ITEM 20  
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  
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CONNECTING TO THE WEBINAR  
Webinar ID: 890 5838 1493  
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:  
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.  
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1.  
2.  
3.  
Call to Order  
Roll Call  
Flag Salute and Pledge of Allegiance  
Councilmember Barón  
4.  
Approval of Minutes of July 15, 2025  
Councilmember Perry  
5.  
6.  
Additions to the Council Agenda  
Special Item  
Recognition of Captain Dan Krehbiel upon his retirement from King County Water Taxi  
Councilmember Mosqueda and Councilmember Quinn  
7.  
Public Comment  
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Hearing and Second Reading of Ordinances from Standing Committees  
and Regional Committees, and of Ordinances related to Collective  
Bargaining  
There will be one public hearing on Items 6-12  
Consent Item 8  
Councilmember Perry  
8.  
AN ORDINANCE relating to existing regional transportation boards, including the SeaShore  
Transportation Forum, the Eastside Transportation Partnership, and the South County Area  
Transportation Board; authorizing the executive to enter into agreements for their continuation and  
committing to King County staff support through 2028.  
Quinn  
Sponsors:  
On 6/10/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Transportation,  
Economy, and Environment Committee.  
On 7/15/2025, the Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee Recommended Do Pass  
Consent.  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Passed.  
Budget and Fiscal Management  
Councilmember Dembowski  
9.  
AN ORDINANCE imposing an additional sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent, as authorized  
in Section 201, Chapter 350, Laws of Washington 2025 for criminal justice purposes; providing for the  
use of the sales and use tax proceeds for eligible expenditures; and adding a new section to K.C.C.  
chapter 4A.500.  
Zahilay and Dembowski  
Sponsors:  
On 6/10/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Budget and  
Fiscal Management Committee.  
On 7/9/2025, the Budget and Fiscal Management Committee Recommended Do Pass.  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Passed.  
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Transportation, Economy, and Environment  
Councilmember Quinn  
10.  
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an agreement with respect to the  
purchase of the landfill gas processing plant located at the Cedar Hills regional landfill.  
Quinn  
Sponsors:  
On 7/1/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Transportation,  
Economy, and Environment Committee.  
On 7/15/2025, the Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee Passed Out of  
Committee Without a Recommendation.  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Passed as Amended.  
Motions, from Standing Committees and Regional Committees and  
Motions related to Collective Bargaining, for Council Action  
Consent Item 11  
Councilmember Perry  
11.  
A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Marsha Matsumoto, who resides in council  
district four, to the King County board of ethics.  
Barón  
Sponsors:  
On 7/1/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Government  
Accountability and Oversight Committee.  
On 7/8/2025, the Government Accountability and Oversight Committee Recommended Do Pass  
Consent.  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Passed.  
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First Reading of and Action on Motions Without Referral to Committee  
12.  
A MOTION appointing committees to write the voters' pamphlet statements for the November 4, 2025,  
election regarding Ordinance 19950 providing for the submission to the qualified electors of King  
County, at special election on November 4, 2025, of a proposition to continue funding for the  
countywide Medic One emergency medical services system by authorizing a regular property tax levy  
for a consecutive six year period, for collection beginning in 2026, at a rate of $0.25 or less per $1,000  
of assessed valuation, to provide for Medic One emergency medical services.  
Dunn  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Passed.  
SUBJECT TO A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES TO TAKE ACTION WITHOUT REFERRAL  
TO COMMITTEE PURSUANT TO K.C.C. 1.24.085  
First Reading and Referral of Ordinances  
13.  
AN ORDINANCE relating to the levy collection of the sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent for  
the delivery of behavioral health services and therapeutic courts authorized by RCW 82.14.460;  
continuing the sales and use tax; adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.500, establishing an  
effective date, and establishing an expiration date.  
Dembowski  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Budget and  
Fiscal Management Committee.  
This is a dual referral first to the Budget and Fiscal Management Committee and then to the  
Regional Policy Committee.  
This is a nonmandatory referral to the Regional Policy Committee under K.C.C. 1.24.065.I as an  
issue that would benefit from interjurisdictional discussion.  
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14.  
AN ORDINANCE related to civil immigration enforcement at facilities contracted with King County;  
amending Ordinance 18665, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.15.005, and adding a new section  
to K.C.C. chapter 2.15.  
Barón  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Law and Justice  
Committee.  
First Reading and Referral of Motions  
15.  
A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Jonathan Deex, who resides in council district  
nine, to the King County community advisory committee on law enforcement oversight, as a  
representative from King County sheriff contract cities.  
Barón  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Law and Justice  
Committee.  
16.  
A MOTION confirming the executive's appointment of Daisy Wong, who resides in council district nine,  
to the King County human and civil rights commission.  
Barón  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Law and Justice  
Committee.  
17.  
A MOTION accepting the King County Clean Water Healthy Habitat Strategic Plan 2020-2025 in  
accordance with Ordinance 19881, Section 377.  
Perry  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Local Services  
and Land Use Committee.  
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18.  
A MOTION accepting the King County 30-Year Forest Plan in accordance with Ordinance 19881,  
Section 377.  
Quinn and Perry  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Local Services  
and Land Use Committee.  
19.  
Reports on Special and Outside Committees  
Other Business  
First Reading and Referral of Ordinances  
20.  
AN ORDINANCE outlining the intended sequencing of steps to acquire property interests needed for  
the RapidRide I Line project; and authorizing the condemnation of real property to obtain fee title,  
easements, and other rights in property for the construction of the RapidRide I Line in the cities of  
Renton, Kent, and Auburn.  
Quinn  
Sponsors:  
On 7/22/2025, the Metropolitan King County Council Introduced and Referred to Transportation,  
Economy, and Environment Committee.  
Adjournment  
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