File #: 2025-0141    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 9/16/2025 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action: 10/21/2025
Enactment date: Enactment #: 19987
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute fiber optic installation and maintenance agreements.
Sponsors: Pete von Reichbauer
Indexes: Agreement, Executive, Fiber
Attachments: 1. A. 2018 – Ten Year Extension of the Seattle Fiber One Agreement Addendum #33, 2. B. Terms and Conditions for Sharing of Fiber Optic Installation Projects, dated July 27, 2010, 3. D. Fiscal Note, 4. 2025-0141_S1_StrikingAmendment_FiberOne bar, 5. 2025-0141_T1_TitleAmendment_FiberOne, 6. 2025-0141_RevisedSR_Shared Fiber Agreements 10-6-2025, 7. 2025-0141_SR_Shared Fiber Agreements, 8. 2025-0141 transmittal letter, 9. 2025-0141 Legislative Review Form, 10. B. Project Services Addendum #34 to Fiber One Agreement, 11. C. Project Services Addendum #36 to Fiber One Agreement
Drafter
Clerk 10/15/2025
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute fiber optic installation and maintenance agreements.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Ordinance 12871 authorized the execution of a twenty-year interagency agreement among King County, the city of Seattle, the University of Washington, Seattle Community College District VI, the United States General Services Administration, Seattle Community Colleges, King County Library, and Seattle School District ("the participating agencies") and approved the general terms and conditions to be used for specific shared fiber optic network installation and maintenance projects ("general terms and conditions"). Each specific project would have its own agreement form to which these general terms and conditions would apply. However, in accordance with Addendum 2 to the general terms and conditions, for those specific projects to which a federal government agency was a participant, the term was only ten years.
2. Ordinance 12871 further authorized the executive to execute a specific project agreement for fiber optic installations and maintenance from the Seattle Municipal Building to the Seattle Center using the general terms and conditions and also an amendment to that same agreement.
3. Since 1997, the county has executed other project services agreements, more recently referred to as "addenda," using the general terms and conditions.
4. Among the provisions of the general terms and conditions was the commitment by each participating agency to a specific project agreement or addendum committing the county to pay its proportionate share of capital and maintenance costs.
5. In 2010, the general terms and conditions were updated and replaced with Terms and Conditions for Sharing of Fiber Optic Installation Projects, dated July 27, 2010 ("the updated GT&Cs"). Under Article VI.D. of these updated GT&Cs, the term of each specific project agreement or addendum would be twenty years. The updated GT&Cs...

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