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I my name is Kathy Lambert I'm

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a King County Council member and I know
there are lots of concerns right now about

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property taxes so I wanted to tell you

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a little bit about property taxes. First
off King County is the bank for one

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hundred and sixty four different taxing
districts so when you write your check out

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to King County then we disperse it to

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a variety of other taxing to Strix.
King counties portion of that is about

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seventeen percent some would
be a little more some of be

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a little bit less but it averages to about
seventeen percent of every dollar stays

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of King County and not with the other one
hundred sixty three taxing districts I'd

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like you to know that there is

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a new website right now that is put out
by the assessor and it is called local

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skate the local skate gives you information
about your own particular property and

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compares it to other properties in the
county this is the Web site address for

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local scape as local scape
property. Accessor give you

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a second to look at that to write it down.
When you get on the local skate the

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third button over says my property when
you put it in under my property your own

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address you will get

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a pie chart that tells you all about the
different taxing districts and how much

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money goes into each of those taxing districts
so in this example which is from is

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a quad you would be able to see that the
schools get the most amount of money this

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section right here in red is school and
then this blue section of the pie chart

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they're both schools one from the local
and one from the state so in this example

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forty one percent is this red and then
also for the state schools the blue is

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twenty percent of over two hundred sixty
one percent of your taxes is going to

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schools then the other percentage in this
example eleven percent would go to the

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city four point five five percent to the
library. So you can see each of these

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breakdowns in addition you can see how much
is voter approved so fifty three point

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twenty eight percent is voter approved
things that have Qantas about it and

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citizens have agreed that that should be
the levy rate every year your taxes are

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calculated by the sales in your community
then once every six years we do

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a visual check to make sure that what
is on the tax bill and what is on your

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property are the same. We also have seen
your and disabled exemptions so if you are

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a senior or a person has

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a disability you could apply for
this exemption Unfortunately this is

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a state law and so it is based on state
averages so right now if you make less than

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forty thousand dollars

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a year you can apply for this exemption
that is obviously if you live in King

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County

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a very small amount and so we are working
with the state to have that for us counties

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such as ours that have

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a much higher median income so if you
do qualify then you need to call our

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assessor's office at this number two zero
sixty nine six thirty nine twenty and ask

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to talk to them about one of these exemptions
again this is information about your

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property taxes I know there are many
concerns but I thought that having this

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information would help you be more
informed residents have a great day.