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AN ORDINANCE related to county automotive parking facilities, authorizing parking at county expense for employees working on certain time-sensitive projects; amending Ordinance 15648, Section 2, and K.C.C. 3.32.006; and declaring an emergency.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. County employees currently are authorized to park in the county automotive parking facilities at county expense when this is for the business convenience of the county. The current definition of business convenience includes after hours parking for all employees but does not include parking during business hours for most employees.
2. Some employees are required to be at work early or late to work for a specified and limited period of time on a time-sensitive project. In these cases it would be a significant disruption to urgent agency business if these employees needed to leave the workplace either to move their private vehicles or to return home to obtain their private vehicles and then return to park in county automotive parking facilities for after hours work.
3. To ensure that time-sensitive agency functions are not disrupted under these circumstances, it is necessary to amend K.C.C. 3.32.006 to authorize county payment of day parking of employees under strictly limited conditions.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15648, Section 2, and K.C.C. 3.32.006 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "After hours parking" means parking for employees whose normal work shifts begin after 1:30 p.m. and end between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. or who are required to come into work after 4:30 p.m. "After hours parking" also includes parking on weekends and holidays that is required by the employee's agency.
B. "Business convenience" means a county business-related requirement. For purposes of this chapter, "a county business-rela...

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