File #: 2014-0445    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/3/2014 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/10/2014
Enactment date: 11/20/2014 Enactment #: 17932
Title: AN ORDINANCE related to the provision of transit tickets to human services agencies; amending Ordinance 12643, Section 19, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.700.210 and Ordinance 12643, Section 19, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.700.210 and repealing Ordinance 17295, Section 6, and Ordinance 17295, Section 7.
Sponsors: Dave Upthegrove, Larry Phillips
Indexes: Human Services, transit
Code sections: 4A.700.210 - .
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17932.pdf, 2. Staff Report Proposed Ordinance 2014-0445 HS Transit Tickets.docx
Staff: Carlson, Paul
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to the provision of transit tickets to human services agencies; amending Ordinance 12643, Section 19, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.700.210 and Ordinance 12643, Section 19, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.700.210 and repealing Ordinance 17295, Section 6, and Ordinance 17295, Section 7.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. K.C.C. 4A.700.210 authorizes a program for the sale and distribution of transit tickets to human service agencies at twenty percent of face value. The total value of the eighty percent discount is established in this section at one million eight hundred seventy-five thousand dollars per year.
2. Ordinance 17295, Section 1, established a congestion reduction transit incentives program including authorization for individuals to donate transit tickets to the human services ticket program. Ordinance 17295, Section 6, amended K.C.C. 4A.700.210 to increase the total value of the eighty percent discount to include two hundred thousand dollars value of the donated tickets per year. A contingent effective date was provided to allow the donated ticket value to be extended on a yearly basis as long as donated tickets were available.
3. The remaining value of donated tickets is now known, so the contingent effective date is no longer necessary.
4. The March 2015 increase in transit fares will reduce the number of tickets available to human service agencies if the existing dollar value of the discount remains in effect.
5. Human service agencies have requested more tickets than available under the total authorized dollar value of the eighty percent discount.
6. A revision of this section of the King County Code will eliminate the contingent effective date, which is no longer necessary, and increase the number of tickets available for purchase by the human service agencies.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. 12643, Section 19, as amended, and K.C.C. 4A.700.210 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
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