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Clerk 01/04/2010
Title
AN ORDINANCE establishing a transportation benefit district within unincorporated King County, Washington, providing for the construction of certain transportation improvements, in accordance with chapter 36.73 RCW; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 2.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. Funding for improvement of the transportation infrastructure in King County has been dramatically reduced in recent years due to the effects of several statewide initiatives, declining revenues from the state motor fuel tax and decreases in available state and federal grant funding. Transportation safety, preservation and other needs are, however, increasing due to aging infrastructure, population growth, development and changing travel patterns.
B. The county needs to make high priority transportation infrastructure improvements to prevent an overall decline in the condition, structural integrity and safety of its transportation system, and to facilitate the movement of people, goods and services throughout the region.
C. Chapter 36.73 RCW authorizes counties to create transportation benefit districts and authorizes transportation benefit districts to establish certain revenue sources for transportation improvements within the districts that meet specified eligibility requirements. Transportation benefit districts may contract with other governments to fund , plan and construct these transportation improvements.
D. RCW 82.80.140 authorizes a transportation benefit district created by a county to impose, by a majority vote of the district's governing board, a vehicle fee of up to twenty dollars annually if the district includes all of the area within the county and if the county negotiates an interlocal agreement with the cities in the county that provides for the distribution of the fee revenue to each city within the county. The interlocal agreement must be approved by sixty percent of...

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