File #: 2018-0481    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/1/2018 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/13/2018
Enactment date: 11/19/2018 Enactment #: 18824
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the county property tax levies for collection in 2019, and implementing RCW 84.55.120.
Sponsors: Dave Upthegrove
Indexes: Property Tax
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18824.pdf, 2. 2018-0481 legislative review form, 3. 2018-0481_0479_0480_SR_Property Tax_Hamacher.docx
Staff: Hamacher, Patrick

Drafter

Clerk 09/25/2018

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AN ORDINANCE relating to the county property tax levies for collection in 2019, 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, 2018, for the 2019 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 2019, the council hereby authorizes property tax changes compared to the amounts authorized for collection in 2018 as follows:

 Levy

Estimated  Dollar Increase

  % Increase

Estimated Total Levy

Regular Levy

$7,464,933

1.17%

$660,946,264

Regular - Transit

$5,136,150

21.72%

$29,336,521

Road District

$744,879

0.83%

$91,087,919

Conservation Futures

$152,001

0.76%

$20,685,007

Emergency Medical Services

$973,197

0.76%

$131,382,129

Marine

$178,108

3.00%

$6,105,904

The changes shown above are exclusive of any amounts resulting from new construction valued in 2018, any increases in value of state-assessed property for 2019 and any amounts necessary to fund tax refunds paid in 2018.

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