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Clerk 11/12/2010
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AN ORDINANCE relating to county automotive parking facilities; and amending Ordinance 15648, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.006, Ordinance 12077, Section 17, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.020, Ordinance 3511, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.040, Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 and Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.055.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15648, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.006 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "After hours parking" means work time parking for employees whose normal work shifts begin after 1:30 p.m. and end between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. or who are required to come into work after 4:30 p.m. "After hours parking" also includes parking on weekends and holidays that is required by the employee's agency.
B. "Business convenience" means a county business-related requirement. For the purposes of this chapter, "a county business-related requirement" includes after hours parking for county employees, parking for commissioned sheriff's office personnel, parking for county volunteers specifically authorized by ordinance to park in county automotive parking facilities at no charge, parking for county employees working for a specified and limited period on a time-sensitive project that requires them to arrive before or stay after regular work hours and parking for county employees who are required as part of their jobs to use their private vehicles to routinely travel to multiple county business locations and parking for county-owned vehicles.
C. "County automotive parking facility" means:
1. The Goat Hill parking garage located at Sixth Avenue and Jefferson in Seattle;
2. The parking structure located at the regional justice center in Kent;
3. County adult detention center parking facilities located at Fifth Avenue and James in Seattle;
4. Open surface lots that are owned or leased by the county; and
5. The ((New County Office)) Chinook Building parking located at ((Sixth)) Fifth Avenue and Jefferson in Seattle.
D. "County volunteer" means a person who is not a county employee, who performs service for the county for civic, charitable or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation or receipt of compensation from the county for services rendered and who is accepted as a volunteer by the county. "County volunteer" includes, but is not limited to, a person serving as a board member, officer, commission member, volunteer intern or direct service volunteer.
((D.)) E. "Director" means the director of the county department of executive services and his or her successor or designee, unless otherwise specified in this chapter.
((E.)) F. "Public parking" means general purpose parking by persons who are not county employees and by county employees that park for less than a full day.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 12077, Section 17, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.020 are each hereby amended as follows:
A. All county employees((and)), elected officials and county volunteers shall pay their own parking fees unless they are parking for the business convenience of the county. The ((employee's)) agency served by an employee, elected official or county volunteer, who is parking for the business convenience of the county, shall be charged for ((employee)) such parking ((that is for the business convenience of the county)) at a rate equal to the county employee rate. Current county employees covered by existing collective bargaining agreements shall be affected only in a manner consistent with state law.
B. The parking fees for monthly parking that is not for the business convenience of the county shall be paid through monthly payroll deductions from the wages of the employee or elected official who is assigned the regular use of the county parking stall regardless of whether that person is assigned the use of a county-owned vehicle, assigned a vehicle provided at county expense, or uses a privately-owned vehicle.
C. In order to evaluate the appropriateness of any potential adjustments to established employee parking rates, the department of executive services, facilities management division may conduct a survey of the monthly parking rates charged for public parking in comparable lots. The survey and any employee parking fee recommendations shall be forwarded to the council for consideration during the budget process.
SECTION 3. Ordinance 3511, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.040 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Public parking space within county automotive parking facilities shall be ((established)) made available to the extent practicable. Members of the public on county business shall be charged for all time parked. Religious service volunteers who work at the King County jail are parking for the business convenience of the department of adult and juvenile detention. ((Other volunteers who are specifically authorized by ordinance to park in county automotive parking facilities at no charge are parking for the business convenience of those agencies that the volunteers serve.))
SECTION 4. Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The rates for county employees parking at the Goat Hill parking garage shall be as follows:
A. Daily parking for motorcycles: ((fifteen)) five dollars((.));
B. Hourly parking: Hourly public parking rates shall apply up to a maximum of fifteen dollars per day for automobiles ((and four dollars per day for motorcycles)); and
beginning after 1:30 p.m. on weekdays and on weekends and holidays)) shall be seven dollars per day.
SECTION 5. Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.055 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Monthly employee and county vehicle rates for parking in the Goat Hill parking garage, the Chinook Building, the King County Correctional Facility and open surface parking lots that are designated by rule to be subject to parking charges, shall be as follows:
Reserved/Designated Area Unreserved Area
1. Vehicle parking (($273.00)) $300 (($235.00)) $260.00
2. Electric Cars (($165)) $182.00
3. Open surface lots $20.00 $20.00
4. City of Seattle ((C))certified ((C))carpool (($165.00)) $182.00
5. Employee ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) (($118.00)) $130.00.
B. The facilities management division of the department of executive services shall identify surface parking lots where it is reasonable and feasible to charge employees for monthly parking. These surface parking lots are located at county facilities outside the downtown Seattle metropolitan core and include, but are not limited to, district courts, health centers, alcohol treatment facilities, police precincts, youth service centers and similar facilities. Designation of open surface lots that are subject to parking charges shall occur by administrative rule adopted pursuant to K.C.C. 3.32.010.
C. For county employees with disabilities that make it difficult or impossible to use public transit, and who display a disabled parking permit, the fee for covered parking in facilities managed by the facilities management division shall be fifty percent of the ((normal)) monthly employee rate, rounding up to the next even dollar ((and applies to all King County facilities management division managed parking facilities)). Employees
with disabilities shall receive first priority in the assignment of available parking stalls.
SECTION 6. This ordinance takes effect January 1, 2011.
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