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In 2006, the $365 million "Bridging the Gap" levy was approved by Seattle voters, using property taxes and parking fees to fund nine years of transportation improvements. [9] [10] The levy was replaced in 2015 by the voter-approved "Move Seattle" levy, funded by a new property tax, that will provide $930 million over a nine-year period. [11]
As of 2022, the agency has 1,484 full-time employees and an annual budget of $443 million.It collected $3.07 billion in revenue during fiscal year 2022. [31] As of 2022, the DOL has issued 5.98 million driver's licenses and 800,000 identification cards and learner's permits; approximately 8.05 million vehicles were registered with the DOL.
Seattle, Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island, Vashon Island: Original statewide area code until 1957, when area code 509 was created for Eastern Washington. Further splits in 1995 to create area code 360 for most of Western Washington, and 1997 to form area codes 253 and 425. 564 will be added to the 206 area in 2025. 509
To alter the area of a county, the state constitution requires a petition of the "majority of the voters" in that area. A number of county partition proposals in the 1990s interpreted this as a majority of people who voted, until a 1998 ruling by the Washington Supreme Court clarified that they would need a majority of registered voters. [4]
Seattle City Hall (also known as the Seattle Municipal Building) is the home of the offices of the mayor and city council of Seattle, Washington, located between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue in the downtown area of the city. Most city departments have their offices in the nearby Seattle Municipal Tower. In 2003, the Seattle city government moved ...
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is the public health department in King County, Washington, United States. It is jointly managed by the City of Seattle and King County governments, [ 1 ] serving approximately 2.6 million residents.
The return of the Seattle exurbs, combined with the continued proliferation of cell phones, faxes, and pagers, hastened a three-way split of the 206 territory, effective on April 25, 1997. The southern portion, including Tacoma, received area code 253 , while the northern portion, including Everett and the Eastside , was assigned area code 425 .
From the city's founding through the 1880s, Seattle's water was provided by several private companies. In a July 8, 1889, election, [4] barely a month after the Great Seattle Fire (June 6, 1889) gave a dramatic illustration of the limitations of the city's water supply, Seattle's citizens voted 1,875 to 51 to acquire and operate their own water ...