File #: 2015-0143    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 3/30/2015 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action: 2/1/2016
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to coordination of development of the Sound Transit Operations and Maintenance Satellite Facility with the Eastside Rail Corridor and Metro Transit East Base; requiring council approval of certain related agreements.
Sponsors: Jane Hague, Kathy Lambert
Indexes: ERC/BNSF, Sound Transit
Attachments: 1. 2015-0143_SR_OMSF_agreement.docx, 2. 2015-0143_ATT1_Proposed_Ordinance.doc, 3. 2015-0143_ATT2_ST_OMSF_Stakeholder_Letter_11202014.pdf, 4. 2015-0143_ATT3_OMSF_Scheme_A2_Phase1_&_Phase2.pdf, 5. Three Party Agreement realignment of 120th Ave NE.pdf
Drafter
Clerk 03/30/2015
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to coordination of development of the Sound Transit Operations and Maintenance Satellite Facility with the Eastside Rail Corridor and Metro Transit East Base; requiring council approval of certain related agreements.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Sound Transit Board selected a preferred site for an Operations and Maintenance Satellite Facility ("OMSF") that is adjacent to King County's East Base and multipurpose easement in the Eastside Rail Corridor ("the ERC").
2. Representatives of King County participated in the OMSF stakeholder workshops in 2014.
3. The 2014 OMSF stakeholder workshop participants recommended supporting OMSF Alternate Site Plan A2 and development of a three party agreement with Sound Transit, the city of Bellevue and King County within the next six months that results in a phased OMSFA2 site plan in its entirety.
4. OMSF Alternate Site Plan A2 involves relocation of at least a portion of East Base and could affect the couny's multipurpose easement in the ERC.
5. The metropolitan King County council adopted the Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 in Ordinance 17143, setting the policy for and guiding the implementation of the Metro transit service network.
6. The Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 contains Goal 2: Human Potential. Provide equitable opportunities for people from all areas of King County to access the public transportation system, and Goal 6: Financial Stewardship. Exercise sound financial management and build the transit division's long term sustainability.
7. Strategies for achieving these goals include:
a. Strategy 2.1.3: Provide products and services that are designed to provide geographic value in all parts of King County; and
b. Strategy 6.2.2: Provide and maintain capital assets to support efficient and effective service delivery.
8. King County's East Base provides bus parking for approximately two hund...

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