File #: 2019-0432    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/23/2019 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/20/2019
Enactment date: 12/4/2019 Enactment #: 19023
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the county property tax levies for collection in 2020, and implementing RCW 84.55.120.
Sponsors: Claudia Balducci
Indexes: King County, levy, Property Tax
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19023, 2. 2019-0432 transmittal letter, 3. 2019-0432 fiscal note, 4. 2019-0432 Amendment 1 Dated 11-19-2019

Drafter

Clerk 11/21/2019

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AN ORDINANCE relating to the county property tax levies for collection in 2020, and implementing RCW 84.55.120.

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                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The council is under an obligation by charter to enact revenue measures that support the budget appropriation ordinance by December 1, 2019, for the 2020 budget.  This ordinance sets the amount of property tax to be collected for the regular property tax levy, the transit levy, the road district levy, the conservation futures levy, the emergency medical services levy and the marine levy.  In accordance with RCW 84.55.120, the council has given proper notice of this ordinance to the public.

                     SECTION 2.  For collection of the property tax levies in 2020, the council hereby authorizes property tax changes compared to the amounts authorized for collection in 2019 as follows:

 Levy

Estimated  Dollar Increase

 % Increase

Estimated Total Levy

Regular Levy (includes new 2019 voter-approved parks levy, under Ordinance 18890)

$46,051,752

6.95%

$720,758,064

Regular - Transit

$235,149

0.80%

$30,184,815

Road District

$795,204

0.87%

$92,987,997

Conservation Futures

$159,677

0.77%

$21,297,118

Emergency Medical Services (New 2019 voter-approved levy, under Ordinance 18931)

$37,929,127

28.83%

$169,468,451

Marine

$61,174

1.00%

$6,290,100

The changes shown above are exclusive of any amounts resulting from new construction valued in 2019, any increases in value of state-assessed property for 2020 and any amounts necessary to fund tax refunds paid in 2019.

                     SECTION 3.  Upon enactment, the clerk is directed to forward this ordinance to the assessor in accordance with RCW 84.52.070.