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Of these, King, Whatcom, Snohomish, and Pierce, four major counties on Puget Sound, elect a county executive. Councils in the other three charter counties appoint a manager to administer the government. [10] Voters may also elect a clerk, treasurer, sheriff, assessor, coroner, auditor (or recorder), and
King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population was 2,269,675 in the 2020 census, [1] making it the most populous county in Washington, and the 12th-most populous in the United States. The county seat is Seattle, [2] also the state's most populous city.
Pat McCarthy was elected Washington state auditor on November 8, 2016. She assumed office on January 11, 2017. McCarthy began her career in public service as an elected school board director for the Tacoma School District, a position she held from 1987–1999. She then became the deputy auditor for Pierce County in 1999.
The Center Square previously reported on the county collecting $7.6 billion in property taxes across all of King County this year. Out of that total, residential taxpayers will pay 83% of the $7.6 ...
This is the first time King County has been listed in the annual report. According to the report, the county is listed as a judicial hellhole due to unfair group trials, allowing lesser s
On November 4, 1986, he was elected to the office of Pierce County Auditor, an office his father, Jack W. Sonntag, had held from 1948 to 1969. Following the end of his second term, Sonntag was elected Washington State Auditor on November 3, 1992. He was re-elected four times, most recently in 2008 with 70 percent of the vote.
(The Center Square) – King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci is running for county executive with the intention of connecting the county's transit system, addressing juvenile crime rates ...
In 1971, in Seattle, in one of the first same-sex marriage lawsuits in the United States, gay activists John Singer (later known as Faygele Ben-Miriam) [6] and Paul Barwick requested a marriage license from the King County Auditor, Lloyd Hara, to demonstrate the inequality between gay and heterosexual couples. [7]