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A RESOLUTION of the King County transportation district, fixing and imposing a one-tenth of one percent sales and use tax within the boundaries of the district to finance transportation improvements, as authorized by RCW 36.73.040, 36.73.065, and 82.14.0455.
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WHEREAS, chapter 36.73 RCW authorizes counties to establish transportation benefit districts for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, providing, and funding transportation improvements, as defined in RCW 36.73.015, within the district, and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 17746 established the King County transportation district with the authority to fund, acquire, construct, operate, improve, provide, maintain, and preserve certain transportation improvements, defined in the ordinance to include specified categories of projects or programs contained in the transportation plan of the Puget Sound Regional Council, King County, or a city within King County, and
WHEREAS, the King County council is the governing board of the transportation district, acting in an ex officio and independent capacity, with the authority to exercise the statutory power in chapter 36.73 RCW, and
WHEREAS, the geographical boundaries of the King County transportation district are coterminous with the boundaries of King County, and
WHEREAS, RCW 36.73.065 authorizes the district to fix and impose up to a one-tenths of one percent sales and use tax for up to ten years within the district in accordance with RCW 82.14.0455 upon a majority vote of the governing body of the district for the purpose of financing transportation improvements of the district, and
WHEREAS, the King County road services division of the department of local services manages approximately one thousand five hundred miles of roads, one hundred eighty-eight bridges, more than three million linear feet of drainage pipe, more than twenty-eight thousand culverts, more than seven hundred crosswalks, and two hundred seventy-five miles of sidewalk in the count...

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