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Sound Transit is weighing how to deal with a $35 billion budget shortfall.

To do so, it may need to defer some projects and skip others.

New King County Executive Girmay Zahilay is a Sound Transit board member and also nominates new members.

During our sit down interview with him on April 29th, we talked about the agency's significant financial challenge.

What do you think is that King County residents want to see?

Is it getting to Everett or is it the Seattle neighborhoods?

I think first and foremost, they want us to deliver on voter approved projects within budget.

I think those are the two things that they want.

And so that's what I'm committed to is not abandoning a single project, continuing to advance all projects forward, and understanding that some things will have to be delayed or changed based on the money that we have.

Moving forward on all projects means that if any projects are shovel ready and ready to be built right now, we should absolutely build them.

And that's why I think that we should build West Seattle, because it is shovel ready.

When it comes to Ballard, is that getting to Market Street, which is the terminal of that station, is not currently affordable.

But what I'm asking for is go as far as possible, be aggressive, be creative.

with an eye toward we're going to get there eventually, but I want to go as far as possible right now.

Let's talk about the Graham Street station in the Seattle area.

Is that likely on the chopping block?

I want us to build that.

When it comes to infill stations which are stations in between existing stations, that is a far less expensive proposition than building a whole new line like West Seattle or Ballard or whatever it might be.

All this week, we're bringing you parts of our sit-down with Executive Zahilay.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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