File #: 2023-0233    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/3/2023 In control: Government Accountability and Oversight Committee
On agenda: Final action: 11/28/2023
Enactment date: 12/6/2023 Enactment #: 19693
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute an interlocal agreement with the city of Seattle to regulate for-hire transportation.
Sponsors: Pete von Reichbauer
Indexes: Executive Services, Interlocal Agreement, Seattle, City of, Transportation
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19693, 2. A. Interlocal Agreement Between the City of Seattle and King County For-Hire Transportation dated November, 2023, 3. 2023-0233 Legislative Review Form, 4. A. King County - Seattle Interlocal Agreement for For-hire Transportation, 5. 2023-0233 Transmittal Letter - Taxi and FHR Ordinances, 6. 2023-0233 Copy of Fiscal Note - Taxi and FHR Seattle ILA, 7. 2023-0230_0231_0232_0233_SR_TaxiForHireTNC-Package_10-10-23, 8. 2023-0233 ATT8 Proposed Ordinance, 9. 4A_2023-0233_S1, 10. 4C_2023-0233_S1_tracks, 11. 4D_2023-0233_Att.A.SeattleILA_11.09.2023_tracks, 12. 4E_2023-0233_T1, 13. 2023-0230_0231_0232_0233_Amendment Tracker_20231114-GAO, 14. 2023-0230_0231_0232_0233_SR_TaxiForHireTNC-Package_11-14-23-GAO (2), 15. 2023-0233 Vote Sheet, 16. 2023-0230_0231_0232_0233_RevisedSR_TaxiForHireTNC-Package_11-14-23-GAO, 17. 4B_2023-0233_Att.A.SeattleILA_11.09.2023
Staff: Sherrie Hsu

Drafter

Clerk 11/15/2023

Title

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute an interlocal agreement with the city of Seattle to regulate for-hire transportation.

Body

STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  Due to changes in state law governing the regulation of transportation network companies, modifying K.C.C. chapter 6.64 that regulates transportation network companies and establishing a new King County Code chapter to regulate taxicabs and for-hire vehicles best articulates the county's objectives for that industry.

2.  The county partners with the city of Seattle through an interlocal agreement to regulate the for-hire transportation industry and desires to maintain that partnership under common regulations in the future.

3.  The county and the city of Seattle last updated the interlocal agreement concerning for-hire transportation in August 1995.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The executive, or designee, is authorized to execute the Interlocal

Agreement for For-Hire Transportation with the city of Seattle, which is Attachment A to this ordinance.