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Clerk 05/15/2003
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A MOTION declaring the intent of King County to approve the agreement for the South County Area Transportation Board; committing to staffing support for its continuation through 2005; clarifying its membership and representation; and authorizing the executive to enter into an agreement to further the purposes of this board.
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WHEREAS, the King County and the cities in King County have a long history of multi-jurisdictional transportation planning; including the Green River Valley Transportation Action Plan, and
WHEREAS, each of the jurisdictions in the south King County area has experienced significant population growth and economic development in the last decade, and project continued growth and development in the future, and
WHEREAS, the enormous cost of many of the needed transportation improvements and their importance to south King County as a whole demonstrate the need for a cooperative approach to the planning, financing and construction of these improvements, and
WHEREAS, many of the transportation problems which were identified in Green River Valley Transportation Action Plan still exist and new transportation issues have emerged, and
WHEREAS, King County, the Washington state Department of Transportation and the south King County cities of Auburn, Kent, Renton, Tukwila, SeaTac, Burien, Federal Way, Algona, Pacific, Milton, Normandy Park, Enumclaw and Black Diamond in 1992 recognized that a cooperative approach to the transportation problems would facilitate application of the south King County jurisdictions for funding from the state of Washington and the United States, and in recognition of this, formed the South County Area Transportation Board to serve as a central forum for solving transportation issues affecting the south county area jurisdictions, and
WHEREAS, the new cities of Maple Valley and Covington joined the South County Area Transportation Board and have joined South County Area Transpo...

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