Drafter
Clerk 03/21/2008
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to enter into agreements with transit service partners as authorized in Ordinance 15582 and in accordance with Ordinance 15756.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The Transit Now ordinance, Ordinance 15582, adopted by the council on September 5, 2006, and the subsequent Transit Now proposition approved by the voters in the general election on November 7, 2006, provides funds for new transit services. The Transit Now ordinance also authorizes King County metro transit to enter into certain service partnerships with public and private service partners to add other transit services mutually agreed to by the service partners and metro transit. Two types of service partnerships are authorized by the Transit Now ordinance: direct financial partnerships and speed-and-reliability partnerships.
B. According to the Transit Now ordinance, service partnership agreements are intended: to "leverage metro's service resources to increase overall transit service resources"; to be located "where transit service investments will generate the most riders"; to "act as a tool to meet growth targets and improve transit market share to support employee commuting"; and to target but not limit partnerships to designated urban, manufacturing, and industrial centers.
C. The Transit Now ordinance establishes the maximum number of annual service hours available for service partnerships, and sets minimum requirements for service partnership proposals to be eligible for service partnership agreements.
D. The Transit Now Service Partnership Criteria Ordinance, Ordinance 15756 adopted on May 7, 2007, adopts criteria for selecting among eligible applications for entering into service partnerships and establishes a process to solicit proposals from interested parties.
E. Fourteen direct financial service partnership and two speed-and-reliability service...

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