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October 8, 2025 by Cindy Alia

King County has posted its proposed budget for the next biennial and you can review it here:  https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/executive/governance-leadership/performance-strategy-budget/budget/2026-2027-budget  comments you may have can be sent to the county at this email: budget.council@kingcounty.gov 

Below, you will find a comment provided to the county with an overview geared at implementing cost savings through targeted cuts and fraud detection improvements:

Date: October 8, 2025
Subject: Targeted Budget Cuts and Enhanced Fraud Prevention Measures

Dear King County Council,

By Cindy Alia 9/11/25

9/1/2025 By Cindy Alia

CAPR Fought Hard for Property Rights in the battle for property use in the 2005 Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) Making.  What seemed a savage assault on a constitutionally fair and reasonable regulatory environment suffered in the name of environmentalism.  Now King County has almost completed its update to the CAO for 2025, and it is clear the lessons of the past have not become an intrinsic motivator for ordinance makers at the county.  They are in fact doubling down on such things as fish life, buffers, and more complicated and less equitable regulatory features.  

Here are the two most useful summary of information links, you can peruse them to see if there are features to the planned ordinance you find objectional.

By Cindy Alia 7/24/25

King County, Washington, residents and businesses face a complex sales tax structure that has sparked confusion, particularly with recent tax changes. A July 22, 2025, King County Council announcement about a new 0.1% sales tax for public safety and criminal justice has raised questions about the total sales tax rate, with some mistakenly interpreting it as “10.3 cents per $100.” This article aims to clarify the combined sales tax rate in King County, including the new increment, and address potential misconceptions.

Enjoy and learn from this fact and linked post by Guest Author Steve Busch from his websitehttps://oldmanoftheski.com/ OMOTS

Who Owns AMERICA?  Identifying Threats to Private Property

July 15, 2025 by Steve Busch

The fundamental right of the average citizen to own property is under siege. Threats to private ownership include a net reduction in the amount of property available due to government land acquisitions, increasing foreign ownership of both residential and agricultural land, plus onerous government taxes and regulations.

8/20/25 By Dominique Scarimbolo

Dear Councilmembers, 

On behalf of the Citizens’ Alliance for Property Rights (CAPR), King County Chapter as the new President, I submit the following written comments to be entered into the record regarding the August 20, 2025 Local Services and Land Use Committee meeting packet and agenda. CAPR represents property owners and small business stakeholders across King County who are deeply concerned about the ongoing erosion of private property rights under the guise of “comprehensive planning,” “equity,” and “environmental stewardship.” 

I. Accessibility and Transparency Failures 

By Cindy Alia 6/20/25

The call for administrative law reform:

Washington State Statutes Reveal the Need for Administrative Law Reform in a hypothetical situation of a Ban on Gender Affirming Care as Determined in the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, as well as in Current Statute in Washington State which Allow for Gender Affirming Care.

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti (June 18, 2025) upheld Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, which bans puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors to treat gender dysphoria, while allowing these treatments for other medical conditions. Tennessee defended the law as protecting minors from unproven treatments with risks like fertility loss.

June 20, 2025 By Cindy Alia

Where should justice stand?  Should it take a back seat to so called expediancy of administrative adjudication?  Where should the people carry the weight of decision making in any adjudication?

By Cindy Alia 5/28/25

Join us at the CAPR Annual Banquet Event Saturday, May 31, 2025!  

Seating still available, register for the event here!

To be held at the Doubletree Suites, Southcenter

Registrtion/Social hour 5:00 pm, Dinner/Event to begin at 6:00pm

May 13, 2025 by Cindy Alia

President Trump has signed an Executive Order intended to fight Overcriminalization In Federal Regulations.