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King County Television is your window onto King County government, for live and taped coverage of Metropolitan King County Council meetings, County Executive news briefings, community meetings, and other programming on county issues. [Requires free version of Windows Media Player] |
| King County Connects is a roundtable discussion on King County Television that connects you with the regional issues facing King County, and the critical decisions that must be made on your behalf by members of the King County Council and other elected leaders. The progam is hosted in the studio of KCTV by Reporter/Producer Kimberly Hill. RealPlayer needed to watch videos. |
Watch video: Council priorities for 2008 |
Council priorities for 2008  - Chair Julia Patterson outlines issues to be taken up this year by the King County Council, with vice-chairs Dow Constantine and Reagan Dunn. |
Watch video: Countywide Community Forums |
Countywide Community Forums - The King County Council enacted an innovative public outreach program called Countywide Community Forums to enhance citizen participation, civic engagement, and citizenship education in government. Volunteers Dick and Jim Spady and County Auditor Cheryle Broom describe how neighbors meeting in private homes will provide big feedback to county decisionmakers. |
Watch video: Waterborne Transit |
Waterborne transit - You’ll soon be able to cross Puget Sound and Lake Washington in a passenger ferry operated by the new King County Ferry District. Board members Dow Constantine and Jane Hague join Harold Taniguichi, the county's Director of Transportation, to discuss the creation of a modern-day Mosquito Fleet. |
Watch video: Preventing flood disasters |
Preventing flood disasters - King County has more than 100 miles of river levees in urgent need of repairs. What's being done to update those aging levees and protect you and your property from flooding? Councilmembers Larry Phillips and Kathy Lambert join Mark Isaacson, director of the Water and Lands Resources Division, to examine the ten-year plan and funding for the King County Flood Control Zone District. |
Watch video: Adopting the 2008 King County Budget |
Adopting the 2008 King County Budget - After a year of public engagement and five weeks of intensive deliberations, the County Council adopted a King County Budget that responds to the priorities voiced by citizens and respects the property tax limits of I-747. Councilmembers Bob Ferguson, Kathy Lambert and Dow Constantine of the budget leadership team detail what's in it. |
Watch video: Saving the Sound |
Saving the Sound - What's being done to clean-up Puget Sound and what can you do to help? Councilmembers Larry Phillips and Dow Constantine are joined by Bill Ruckelshaus, Leadership Council chair for the Puget Sound Partnership, the new state agency funded with more than $200 million to bring together people, governments, tribes and busineses to return the Sound to health by 2020. |
Watch video: Citizen Budget Priorities |
Citizen Budget Priorities - Councilmember Bob Ferguson with pollster Stuart Elway recap the citizen engagement initiative launched by the council this spring to give the public a stronger voice in setting the priorities for funding programs and services in the 2008 King County Budget and beyond. |
Watch video: The new King County logo |
The new King County logo - Council Chair Larry Gossett and County Executive Ron Sims are joined by graphic designer Tony Gable to share the inspiration and the process of adopting a new logo for King County that reflects its namesake, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Upcoming programs are scheduled to include discussions of the county's role in cleaning up Puget Sound, the county's Mental Illness & Drug Dependency Action Plan, the need to repair and rebuild levees through the new King County Flood Control Zone District, and potenial creation of local waterborne transit through the King County Ferry District. |
