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AN ORDINANCE related to productivity in the King County wastewater program; clarifying participation of represented bargaining units in the wastewater division; codifying the productivity initiative for the wastewater program and extending the initiative to major capital projects and the asset management program for metropolitan water pollution abatement facilities; making technical corrections; amending Ordinance 14084, Section 2, and K.C.C. 3.12.363 and Ordinance 12014, Section 38, and K.C.C. 3.13.015 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 28.86.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County is committed to working with its employees and labor unions to identify the most efficient manner to successfully deliver services to its customers and clients.
2. King County is responsible for providing wastewater conveyance and treatment services in the region and owns and operates certain wastewater treatment facilities.
3. The King County wastewater program ("WWP"), a program of certain sections from within the wastewater treatment division and water and land resources division of the department of natural resources and parks, has the responsibility for the planning, design and construction, maintenance and operations, finance and administration for the wastewater conveyance and treatment system.
4. In response to the increasing public demand for demonstration that sewer rates paid for wastewater conveyance and treatment services are being held as low as possible, while protecting the environment and human health, in 2001 the council, by adopting Motion 11156, endorsed and the WWP instituted a productivity initiative with respect to the operations and maintenance of the wastewater conveyance and treatment system.
5. The adopted productivity initiative called for the development of an incentive plan to recognize performance that exceeds the established cost targets for the WWP capital program.
6. In accordance with the goals and intentions in Motion ...

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