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AN ORDINANCE related to the public transportation and the June 2012 and Winter 2013 reduction or elimination of low performing fixed-route bus service and reinvestment of resources into priorities established within the King County Metro Transit Strategic Plan 2011-2021 and Service Guidelines as adopted by Ordinance 17143.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The transit service changes proposed for June 2012 reduce or eliminate low performing routes throughout King County and invest resources into priorities identified in the newly adopted service guidelines. The priorities are relieve standing loads, improve on-time performance, and increase service levels on corridors deemed underserved.
2. The transit service changes proposed for June 2012 are consistent with adopted plan and budget priorities, as well as the recommendation of the regional transit task force.
3. The transit service changes implement the Congestion Reduction Plan adopted by Ordinance 17168 guiding expenditures of revenue collected from the imposition of a two-year congestion reduction charge of twenty dollars on vehicle registrations renewals in King County.
4. Ordinance 17169 imposing a two-year congestion reduction charge of twenty dollars on vehicle registrations renewals in King County in accordance with Chapter 373, Laws of Washington 2011, requires at a minimum during the period in which the congestion reduction charge is imposed, one hundred thousand of the lowest productivity service hours shall be reduced or restructured and the resulting service hours savings reinvested consistent with the King County Strategic Plan for Public Transportation 2011-2021 and Service Guidelines.
5. The June 2012 proposed transit service change involves reduction and reinvestment of approximately thirty-six thousand annual service hours.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The June 2012 and Winter 2013 public transportation service improvements for King County, substantially as...

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