File #: TD2025-01    Version: 1
Type: TD Resolution Status: In Committee
File created: In control: King County Transportation District
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: A RESOLUTION of the King County transportation district, authorizing the appointment of a labor liaison to serve as a resource and assist the board of supervisors and executive committee.
Sponsors: Claudia Balducci
Indexes: Appointments, Boards, Committees, Executive, King County, Labor, Transportation
Attachments: 1. TD2025-01_SR_Labor_Liaison

Drafter

Clerk 12/17/2024

Title

A RESOLUTION of the King County transportation district, authorizing the appointment of a labor liaison to serve as a resource and assist the board of supervisors and executive committee.

Body

                     WHEREAS, chapter 36.73 RCW authorizes counties to establish transportation benefit districts for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, providing, and funding transportation improvements, as defined in RCW 36.73.015, within the district, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 17746 established the King County transportation district with the authority to fund, acquire, construct, operate, improve, provide, maintain and preserve certain transportation improvements, defined in the ordinance to include specified categories of projects or programs contained in the transportation plan of the Puget Sound Regional Council, King County, or a city within King County, and

                     WHEREAS, the King County council is the governing board of the transportation district, acting in an ex officio and independent capacity, with the authority to exercise the statutory power in chapter 36.73 RCW, and

                     WHEREAS, the geographical boundaries of the King County transportation district are coterminous with the boundaries of King County, and

                     WHEREAS, transportation improvements funded by the King County transportation district will rely on labor organizations to construct, operate, improve, provide, maintain, or preserve those improvements, and

                     WHEREAS, through Motion M2019-79, the board of the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority ("Sound Transit") authorized the appointment of a labor liaison to advise the Sound Transit board, in recognition of the labor force required to construct, operate, and maintain Sound Transit's services, and

                     WHEREAS, the King County transportation district's rules and operating procedures, as adopted in Resolution TD2014-01, state that the board of supervisors of the King County transportation district shall determine and provide for staff and other resources required to assist the board of supervisors and the executive committee in performing their duties, and

                     WHEREAS, it would be consistent with the King County transportation district's rules and operating procedures and appropriate in performing their duties for the King County transportation district board of supervisors and executive committee to seek input from a liaison from the labor community, as a resource;

                     BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE KING COUNTY TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT:

                     SECTION 1.  The board of supervisors is authorized to appoint a labor liaison to serve as a resource to assist the board and the executive committee, as requested, on issues that could affect the labor forces required to construct, operate, improve, provide, maintain, or preserve transportation improvements funded through the King County transportation district.

                     SECTION 2.  The appointment of the labor liaison shall be effectuated through the following process:

                     A.  The Martin Luther King, Jr. County Labor Council ("MLK Labor"), shall be asked to recommend a labor liaison to the executive committee of the King County transportation district within sixty days after the passage of this resolution, or as soon thereafter as practicable.  The recommended liaison must:

                       1.  Reside within the boundaries of the King County transportation district; and

                       2.  Have knowledge and experience in working with labor unions that represent employees constructing, operating, improving, providing, maintaining, or preserving transportation improvements;

                     B.  The executive committee of the King County transportation district shall consider the recommendation from MLK Labor to serve as a labor liaison; and

                     C.  The board of supervisors shall consider the recommendation of the executive committee at its next regular meeting, or at a special meeting, if desired. Confirmation or rejection shall be by board resolution.

                     SECTION 3.  The duties of the labor liaison shall be to serve as a resource to assist the board or the executive committee, as requested, on issues that could affect the labor forces required to construct, operate, improve, provide, maintain, or preserve transportation improvements funded through the King County transportation district.  The labor liaison shall serve for a four-year term and the board of supervisors may use the

process established in this resolution to fill a vacancy for the remainder of a liaison's unexpired term.