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AN ORDINANCE adopting the 2008 Annual Budget and making appropriations for the operation of county agencies and departments and capital improvements for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2008, and ending December 31, 2008, and adopting the 2008/2009 Biennium Budget and making biennial appropriations for the operation of transit, the department of transportation director's office, transit revenue vehicle replacement, public transportation capital improvement program and public transportation construction fund for the fiscal biennium beginning January 1, 2008, and ending December 31, 2009.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: The council makes the following findings of fact:
A. King County government is responsible for providing a variety of services to all residents of the county. These include: regional services, such as criminal justice, public health, wastewater treatment and public transportation; subregional services through contracts with many suburban cities for police protection, jail services and municipal court services; and local services to unincorporated areas, such as police protection, roads, surface water management, local parks and land use regulation.
B. As the legislative branch of government, the metropolitan King County council sets policy for the county. It funds county services through the exercise of its authority to adopt an annual budget for the county. To provide these services, the council has adopted a 2008 budget totaling $4.9 billion, of which $662 million is in the general fund.
C. Citizens expect fiscal integrity and accountability in the use of their tax dollars. The council meets those demands by spending less, saving more and prioritizing expenditures. This adopted budget makes a total reduction from the executive proposed budget of $64 million, reduces general fund expenditures from the executive proposed budget by $1.8 million and increases general fund reserv...
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