Proposed Ordinance: 2025-0129

METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCIL

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Proposed Ordinance 2025-0129

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing before the Metropolitan King County Council will be held at the King County Courthouse, 516 3rd Avenue Room 1001, on the 17th day of June 2025, at 1:30 p.m. to consider the adoption of Proposed Ordinance 2025-0129, which establishes the sewer rate and capacity charge for the year 2026.

Information on the public hearing and how to submit public testimony can be found at this website: https://www.kingcounty.gov/council/committees/full_council.aspx.

SUMMARY

Proposed Ordinance 2025-0129 would make a determination of the sewer rate for the year 2026 that must be charged in order to meet the monetary requirements (administration, operating, and maintenance, repair and replacement costs) of the County's sewage disposal program. The proposed sewer rate for 2026 is $62.66 per month per residential customer equivalent (RCE). The adopted sewer rate for 2025 is $58.28 per RCE per month.

The proposed ordinance would also set the capacity charge for sewer connections occurring between and including January 1, 2026, and December 31, 2026. The capacity charge is the fee that is assessed against customers establishing new connections to ensure that those customers bear their equitable share of the cost of new capacity-related sewage facilities necessary to serve them. The proposed capacity charge is $77.99 month per RCE for fifteen years. The adopted capacity charge for the 2025 is $76.09 per RCE per month for fifteen years.

A copy of Proposed Ordinance No. 2025-0129 is available on the internet at https://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7352914&GUID=EC41B7A8-4B5F-4D91-8605-C39846153330&Options=ID|Text|&Search=2025-0129.

DATED at Seattle, Washington, this 3rd day of June, 2025.

METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCIL

KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON

Melani Hay

Clerk of the Council