File #: 2013-0229    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/6/2013 In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 6/3/2013
Enactment date: 6/7/2013 Enactment #: 17597
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to public transportation; revising the reporting schedule for the annual service guidelines report and establish a new reporting schedule for the biennial strategic plan progress report; and amending Ordinance 17143, Section 5.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski
Indexes: Transportation
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17597.pdf, 2. 2013-0229 Transmittal Letter.doc, 3. 2013-0229 Copy of Fiscal Note - 2013 Strategic Plan Reporting Schedule.xls, 4. 2013-0229 Staff Report Proposed Ordinance - Date Changes.docx, 5. 2013-0229 Staff Report - Transit Report Due Dates (5-21-13).doc, 6. 2013-0229 Attachment 2 Ordinance 17143 Section 5(5-21-13).docx, 7. 2013-0229 Attachment 3 Text of Ordinance 17143, Attachment A, Chapter 3(5-21-13).docx
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Clerk 05/01/2013
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AN ORDINANCE relating to public transportation; revising the reporting schedule for the annual service guidelines report and establish a new reporting schedule for the biennial strategic plan progress report; and amending Ordinance 17143, Section 5.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The King County council adopted Ordinance 17143 in July 2011, adopting the King County Metro Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 ("the strategic plan") and the King County Metro Service Guidelines ("service guidelines").
2. Chapter three of the strategic plan requires Metro to report on strategic plan measures on a biennial basis. Complementary to the biennial strategic plan report, Ordinance 17143 requires Metro to transmit to the council, for acceptance by motion, an annual service guidelines report. Ordinance 17143, Section 5.B, requires the service guidelines report and motion to be transmitted by March 31 of each year for consideration by the regional transit committee.
3. The data collected and utilized by Metro in preparing the annual service guidelines report is available for evaluation beginning in late summer of each year.
4. The data that is used to formulate the service guidelines report also forms the basis for service change proposals and therefore should be made available as soon as possible.
5. Data necessary for measuring the cost of service, which is a subject of the biennial strategic plan progress report, is not typically available in time for a March 31 transmittal.
6. The biennial strategic plan progress report provides information useful to Metro's biennial budgeting process and therefore should be submitted in the same year as the budget.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 17143, Section 5, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Beginning with a baseline report in 2012 and then annually thereafter through the duration of the plan, the executive is directed to transmit to the ...

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