Faced with the choice of “taking a risk or biting the bullet and taking action,” the director of King County Elections Wednesday told a Metropolitan King County Council committee that she must move Elections operations out of Renton before the November general election.

King County Elections Director Sherril Huff told the council’s Committee of the Whole she decided it was more prudent to move elections operations out of the Earlington Building in Renton on Grady Way after receiving a recent projection that the release of water from the federal Howard Hanson Dam could put the facility under up to 10 feet of water.

She said the county has identified the Airport Operations Center at Boeing Field as a temporary site for relocation and that her goal is to move to the new location by the first or second week of October, in order to be prepared to receive and count ballots from the Nov. 3 general election.