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AN ORDINANCE revising the transportation benefit district boundaries and purposes in accordance with chapter 36.73 RCW; amending Ordinance 16742, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.121.010 and Ordinance 16742, Section 6, and 2.121.020 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 2.121.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Chapter 36.73 RCW authorizes a county to create a transportation benefit district consisting of just the unincorporated areas of the county and authorizes such a transportation benefit district to impose, by a majority vote of the district's governing board, up to twenty dollars of the vehicle fee, authorized by RCW 82.80.140.
2. Ordinance 16742, amended K.C.C. Title 2 and created the King County Transportation Benefit District.
3. Ordinance 16742 stated an intent to re-evaluate the appropriateness of the transportation benefit district's boundaries before the governing board of the transportation benefit district votes to impose any vehicle fee on residents in order to determine whether annexations occurring after formation of the transportation benefit district but before the imposition of a vehicle fee should affect the boundaries of the created transportation benefit district territory.
4. Since Ordinance 16742 was adopted and signed, several annexations have changed the boundaries of unincorporated King County.
5. K.C.C 2.121.010 defines the boundaries of the King County transportation benefit district as the "geographical boundaries comprised of the unincorporated limits of the county," and the county desires to make clear that the boundaries of the transportation benefit district change as the boundaries of unincorporated King County change.
6. Funding for improvement of the transportation infrastructure in the county has been dramatically reduced in recent years due to declining revenues from property taxes and the state motor fuel tax and decreases in available state and federal grant funding. At the same time, transportation maintenance, safet...

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