On Monday, November 23, 2009, the King County Council unanimously adopted the 2010 budget, which included language authorizing funding to keep King County’s urban growth area parks open.

According to the Council’s press release,
“The Executive Proposed Budget included the closure of 39 parks within the County’s Urban Growth Area in 2010. The Council’s budget authorizes the funding to keep these parks open next year, but the revenues to back that authority are still being developed.”

Read the full press release. Read the full 2010 adopted budget.