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A MOTION adopting the 2008 work program for the operating budget, fiscal management and select issues committee.
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WHEREAS, the operating budget, fiscal management and select issues committee is charged with: reviewing and monitoring of the operating budget, including financial plans, revenues, expenditures, quarterly reports and operating programs; monitoring the financial status of county funds; considering and making recommendations on supplemental appropriations; and considering and making recommendations on debt and investment proposals, levies, fees and taxes, and
WHEREAS, the committee shall also consider and make recommendations on municipal annexations and incorporations and on select issues, such as implementation of the new sales tax for mental health services and the United States Justice Department's report on the downtown jail , and
WHEREAS, King County continues to experience financial challenges in its current expense and other funds, and
WHEREAS, the committee has, therefore, developed a work plan for 2008 to facilitate its review of budgets, financial policies and plans, annexations, debt and investments and select issues and its development of policy options and recommendations on these and other issues, and
WHEREAS, the committee seeks to be fully transparent and accountable to the public for its work program, and
WHEREAS, the committee seeks full council involvement in and support for its work program;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The operating budget, fiscal management and select issues committee's 2008 work program, as attached to this motion, is hereby adopted.
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