File #: 2015-0144    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/30/2015 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 4/27/2015
Enactment date: 5/6/2015 Enactment #: 18029
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to public transportation; establishing a new deadline for the 2015 update to the Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 and the King County Metro Service Guidelines; and amending Ordinance 17143, Section 6.
Sponsors: Reagan Dunn
Indexes: Transportation
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 18029.pdf, 2. 2015-0144 Legislative Review Form.pdf, 3. A. Strategic Plan and Service Guidelines Update Proposed Planning Timeline, 4. 2015-0144 Fiscal Note.xls, 5. 2015-0144 Transmittal Letter.docx, 6. 2015-0144 Staff Report.docx, 7. Attachment 4 to SR Timeline.docx, 8. 2015-0144_SR_NewDeadlineSPPT.docx
Staff: Carlson, Paul
Drafter
Clerk 03/26/2015
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AN ORDINANCE relating to public transportation; establishing a new deadline for the 2015 update to the Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 and the King County Metro Service Guidelines; and amending Ordinance 17143, Section 6.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County council adopted Ordinance 17143 in July 2011, adopting the King County Metro Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 ("the strategic plan") and the King County Metro Service Guidelines ("the service guidelines").
2. Ordinance 17143, Section 6, requires an update to the strategic plan and the service guidelines by April 30, 2012, 2013 and 2015.
3. In November 2014 the council adopted the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941. Section 113, Proviso P1, of the ordinance directed the executive to transmit a motion establishing a regional stakeholder transit task force and adopting a detailed task force work plan. Section 113, Proviso P2, of the ordinance further directed the executive to change the April 30, 2015 deadline for transmittal of an ordinance updating the strategic plan and the service guidelines to a later date in 2015 in order to provide sufficient time for the development of amendments to these documents as a result of the review and recommendations by the regional stakeholder task force.
4. In February 2015, the council passed Motion 14304 adopting the work plan for a regional stakeholder transit task force, that will convene from February through June 2015. The task force is charged with reviewing and making recommendations regarding:
a. How transit service performance is measured as specified in the service guidelines to reflect the varied purposes of different types of transit service;
b. Approaches to evaluating how the goal of geographic value is included in the service guidelines, including minimum service standards;
c. Approaches to evaluating how the goal of social equity i...

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