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Clerk 09/02/2016

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A MOTION approving a report by the department of transportation on the implementation of the first 18 months of a 2015-2018 alternative services demonstration program as required in Ordinance 17941, Section 113, Proviso P5.

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                     WHEREAS, the alternative services demonstration program brings transportation service to parts of King County that do not have the infrastructure, density or land use to support traditional fixed-route bus service, and

                     WHEREAS, $12,000,000 was approved for these alternative services in the 2015/2016 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 17941, and

                     WHEREAS, Ordinance 17941 Section 113, Proviso P5 withheld $500,000 of the $12,000,000 until the executive transmits a report on the implementation of the first eighteen months of the 2015-2018 alternative services program and a motion approving the report and the motion is passed by council, and

                     WHEREAS, the report must address but not be limited to:

                     1.  A description of each alternative service implementation by community served, including, but not limited to, an assessment of the number of riders affected, geographic coverage, access and linkage to the regional transit network, and the services being or planned to be delivered;

                     2.  A description of the community collaboration, engagement and partnerships for each alternative service implementation;

                     3.  Start-up costs, annual costs, including credit for any reinvestment of current services, and grant and fare revenues for each implementation; and

                     4.  Baseline performance measures and targets for the demonstration period for each implementation;

                     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:

                     The report entitled Alternative Services Program Report, included as Attachment A to this motion, on the implementation of the first 18 months of a 2015-2018 alternative

services demonstration program is hereby approved, as required in Ordinance 17941, Section 113, Proviso P5.