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Clerk 09/22/2005
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an interlocal agreement with the cities of Renton and Tukwila regarding the transfer of ownership and the operation of city-owned traffic signals and related intelligent transportation system equipment by the King County road services division.
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STATEMENT OF THE FACTS
1. The Trans-Valley corridor, defined as starting from SE 151st Street on Petrovitsky Road and follows along on SE 176th Street, Carr Road, SW 43rd Street, and onto S 180th Street where it ends at Southcenter Parkway, is a regional arterial that serves both unincorporated King County and city residents.
2. The county's intelligent transportation system ("ITS") project, which is identified in the road services division adopted six-year capital improvement plan as CIP #400400, will improve traffic flow by interconnecting and coordinating the signal system and providing transit signal priority along the corridor.
3. The operation of the city-owned traffic signals along the corridor by the King County road services division is vital to the implementation of the county's project.
4. Chapter 39.34 RCW authorizes the county and the city to enter into an interlocal cooperation agreement such as Attachment A to this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The county executive is hereby authorized to execute an interlocal agreement, substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, with the cities of Renton and Tukwila regarding the transfer of ownership and the operation of city-owned
traffic signals and related intelligent transportation system ("ITS") equipment by the King County road services division.