{"id":22493,"date":"2016-09-23T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/king-county-council-to-hold-budget-hearing-in-kent-on-oct-18\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:30:25","slug":"king-county-council-to-hold-budget-hearing-in-kent-on-oct-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/king-county-council-to-hold-budget-hearing-in-kent-on-oct-18\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Council to hold budget hearing in Kent on Oct. 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Residents can tell the King County Council&#8217;s Budget Committee what the county&#8217;s priorities should be for its 2017-18 biennial budget during a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The meeting will be in Courtroom 3F at the Maleng Regional Justice Center, 401 Fourth Ave. N.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Public input is vital to the creation of the King County budget, said County Councilman Dave Upthegrove, chair of the Council&#8217;s Budget and Fiscal Management Committee. Upthegrove&#8217;s District 5 includes parts of Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We are going to make some tough choices this year and will rely on public input to make the best choices possible,&#8221; said Upthegrove in a media release. &#8220;I encourage anyone who cares about buses, human services or public safety to not only attend or watch a hearing, but to contact the council with your thoughts.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can tell the King County Council&#8217;s Budget Committee what the county&#8217;s priorities should be for its 2017-18 biennial budget during a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":22494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22493"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}