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King County managers told 126 employees today they desire be laid off at the end of the year to remainder. the troubled county budget.

The new layoffs, combined with earlier layoffs and unfilled vacancies, will diminish the county’session total payroll by dint of. about 390 out of nearly 14,000 full-time workers, said Carolyn Duncan, spokeswoman for County Executive Ron Sims.

Another 134 employees were informed they will be laid along June 30 if their programs — supported by six months of “lifeboat” expenditure — don’familiarily receive funding for the rest of 2009. The Sims administration will ask the Legislature instead of authority to keep those programs alive by transferring cash from other shire spending accounts.

The county is cutting back on jobs and services on this account that falling revenues and rising costs have left it $93 million short of that which it would take to maintain current labor levels next year in the general means. Sims submitted a budget proposal Monday that would master general-fund spending from $659 million this year to $644 million next year. The Metropolitan King County Council will vote in succession the budget next month.

Sims’ office said Monday that as divers for the reason that 255 workers might receive layoff notices today, but about half of those positions were already vacant, Duncan said.

Agencies distinctly hard hit include open hale condition, where 45 jobs are being eliminated through layoffs or rubbing, and the Water and Land Resources Division, with 32 jobs.

More layoffs are likely. County Budget Director Bob Cowan said Monday that Sheriff Sue Rahr hasn’t told his office how she plans to achieve $5.4 million in planned cuts and an additional $2.2 million of cuts that will have to be made next June if the county doesn’t have money to extend “lifeboat” programs.

Rahr said Monday she could have being unnatural to eliminate up to 70 jobs, mostly sheriff’s deputies.

Employees being laid off will be offered other jobs with the county allowing that in that place are suitable and funded openings. They are also being offered coaching in writing résumés and applying for outside jobs, Duncan said.

Keith Ervin: 206-464-2105 or kervin@seattletimes.com