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A MOTION relating to the King County Metro Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 and Service Guidelines, accepting the King County Metro Transit 2017 Strategic Plan Progress Report.

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                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 17143, enacted in July 2011, adopted the King County Metro Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 ("the strategic plan") and the King County Metro Service Guidelines ("the service guidelines") in July 2011, and

                     WHEREAS, the strategic plan and service guidelines have been amended from time to time and in June 2016, via Ordinance 18301, the most-recent updates to the strategic plan and service guidelines were adopted, and

                     WHEREAS, the strategic plan and service guidelines were to follow the recommendations of the regional transit task force regarding the policy framework for the Metro transit system, and

                     WHEREAS, the regional transit task force recommended that the strategic plan and service guidelines focus on transparency and clarity, cost control, and productivity, social equity, geographic value and sustainable funding, and

                     WHEREAS, the regional transit task force further recommended that the policy guidance for making service reductions and service growth decisions be based on the following priorities:

                     1.  Emphasize productivity due to its linkage to economic development, land use, financial stability and environmental sustainability;

                     2.  Ensure social equity; and

                     3.  Provide geographic value throughout the county, and

                     WHEREAS, chapter 3 of the strategic plan requires Metro to report on strategic plan measures on a biennial basis, and

                     WHEREAS, chapter 3 of the strategic plan specifies that the report will measure progress toward broad outcomes to give an indication of Metro's overall performance toward achieving its vision as well as use discrete, quantifiable metrics to determine whether strategies are being implemented successfully, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 17641 adopting the 2013 updates to the strategic plan identified additional performance measures, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 17597, adopted in June 2013, amended Ordinance 17143, Section 5, to establish a new reporting schedule for the biennial report on meeting the goals, objectives and strategies identified in chapter three of the strategic plan; and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 17597, Section 1.B., requires that, beginning in 2014, the biennial strategic plan progress report be transmitted to the council by motion by June 30, and

                     WHEREAS, King County Metro transit staff has compiled the required information and the executive has transmitted the Strategic Plan Progress Report set forth as Attachment A to this motion to the council and to the regional transit committee;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     The council hereby accepts the attached King County Metro Transit 2017 Strategic Plan Progress Report, which is Attachment A to this motion.