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Clerk 03/29/2012
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an interlocal agreement with the Washington state Department of Transportation to provide transportation demand management services on an as-requested basis.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Washington state Department of Transportation ("WSDOT") has adopted a plan for addressing congestion, Moving Washington, that includes a strategy for managing demand to decrease the need for additional road capacity and maximize the efficiency of the transportation system.
2. WSDOT recognizes that King County's department of transportation, metro transit division ("Metro Transit"), has considerable expertise in formulating and implementing transportation demand management strategies and has contracted with Metro Transit in the past to design and implement such programs.
3. The proposed agreement would allow WSDOT to enter into task order contracts with Metro Transit to provide transportation demand management services on an as-requested basis. The agreement sets forth the terms and conditions by which Metro Transit would provide such services, including the terms by which WSDOT would compensate Metro Transit for such work.
4. Allowing Metro Transit to provide transportation demand management services for WSDOT via periodic task order contracts as provided for in the agreement, and to be compensated for such work, will allow the parties to achieve cost savings and benefits that are in the public interest.
6. Chapter 39.34 RCW authorizes the state and the county to enter into an interlocal cooperation agreement such as that set forth in Attachment A to this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute an interlocal agreement with the Washington state Department of Transportation,
substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, to provide transportation demand management services on an as-requested basis.