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Clerk 11/02/2016
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AN ORDINANCE relating to county automotive parking facilities; and amending Ordinance 15648, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.006, Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045, Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.055, Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 and Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.055.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. A. This ordinance proposes changes to the rates for county employees at County automotive parking facilities and includes the King Street Center into the County automotive parking facilities portfolio starting June 1, 2017.
B. These fees are assessed pursuant to K.C.C. 2.99.030.
SECTION 2. Section 3 of this ordinance takes effect June 1, 2017.
SECTION 3. Ordinance 15648, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.006 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "After hours parking" means work time parking for employees whose normal work shifts begin after 1:30 p.m. and end between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. or who are required to come into work after 4:30 p.m. "After hours parking" also includes parking on weekends and holidays that is required by the employee's agency.
B. "Business convenience" means a county business-related requirement. For the purposes of this chapter, "a county business-related requirement" includes after hours parking for county employees, parking for commissioned sheriff's office personnel, parking for county employees working for a specified and limited period on a time-sensitive project that requires them to arrive before or stay after regular work hours, parking for county employees who are required as part of their jobs to use their private vehicles to routinely travel to multiple county business locations, and parking for county-owned vehicles and paid parking for county volunteers authorized by ordinance or by any presiding elected official as defined by K.C.C. 3.24.010 or the presiding elected official's designee, but for the executive branch any designee must be at least the highest-ranking employee of a division.
C. "County automotive parking facility" means:
1. The Goat Hill parking garage located at Sixth Avenue and Jefferson in Seattle;
2. The parking structure located at the regional justice center in Kent;
3. County adult detention center parking facilities located at Fifth Avenue and James in Seattle;
4. Open surface lots that are owned or leased by the county; ((and))
5. The Chinook Building parking located at Fifth Avenue and Jefferson in Seattle; and
6. The King Street Center, located at 201 South Jackson Street in Seattle.
D. "County volunteer" means a person who is not a county employee, who performs service for the county for civic, charitable or humanitarian reasons, without promise, expectation or receipt of compensation from the county for services rendered and who is accepted as a volunteer by the county. "County volunteer" includes, but is not limited to, a person serving as a board member, officer, commission member, volunteer intern or direct service volunteer.
E. "Director" means the director of the county department of executive services and his or her successor or designee, unless otherwise specified in this chapter.
F. "Public parking" means general purpose parking by persons who are not county employees and by county employees that park for less than a full day.
SECTION 4. Sections 5 and 6 of this ordinance take effect January 1, 2017.
SECTION 5. Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 are each hereby amended as follows:
The rates for county employees parking at the Goat Hill parking garage shall be as follows:
A. Daily parking for motorcycles: five dollars;
B. Hourly parking: Hourly public parking rates shall apply up to a maximum of ((fifteen)) twenty dollars per day for automobiles; and
C. The rate for after-hours parking shall be seven dollars per day.
SECTION 6. Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.055 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Monthly employee and county vehicle rates for parking in the Goat Hill parking garage, the Chinook Building, the King County Correctional Facility and open surface parking lots that are designated by rule to be subject to parking charges, shall be as follows:
Reserved/Designated Area Unreserved Area
1. Vehicle parking (($300.00)) $385.00 (($260.00)) $300.00
2. Electric Cars (($182.00)) $210.00
3. Open surface lots $20.00 $20.00
4. City of Seattle certified (($182.00)) $210.00
carpool
5. Employee ADA (Americans (($130.00)) $150.00
with Disabilities Act)
B. The facilities management division of the department of executive services shall identify surface parking lots where it is reasonable and feasible to charge employees for monthly parking. These surface parking lots are located at county facilities outside the downtown Seattle metropolitan core and include, but are not limited to, district courts, health centers, alcohol treatment facilities, police precincts, youth service centers and similar facilities. Designation of open surface lots that are subject to parking charges shall occur by administrative rule adopted pursuant to K.C.C. 3.32.010.
C. For county employees with disabilities that make it difficult or impossible to use public transit, and who display a disabled parking permit, the fee for covered parking in facilities managed by the facilities management division shall be fifty percent of the monthly employee rate, rounding up to the next even dollar. Employees with disabilities shall receive first priority in the assignment of available parking stalls.
SECTION 7. Section 8 and 9 of this ordinance takes effect June 1, 2017.
SECTION 8. Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 are each hereby amended as follows:
The rates for county employees parking at the Goat Hill and King Street Center parking garages shall be as follows:
A. Daily parking for motorcycles: five dollars;
B. Hourly parking: Hourly public parking rates shall apply up to a maximum of twenty dollars per day for automobiles; and
C. The rate for after-hours parking shall be seven dollars per day.
SECTION 9. Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.055 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Monthly employee and county vehicle rates for parking in the Goat Hill parking garage, the Chinook Building, the King County Correctional Facility, the King Street Center garage and open surface parking lots that are designated by rule to be subject to parking charges, shall be as follows:
Reserved/Designated Area Unreserved Area
1. Vehicle parking $385.00 $300.00
2. Electric Cars $210.00
3. Open surface lots $20.00 $20.00
4. City of Seattle certified $210.00
carpool
5. Employee ADA (Americans $150.00
with Disabilities Act)
B. The facilities management division of the department of executive services shall identify surface parking lots where it is reasonable and feasible to charge employees for monthly parking. These surface parking lots are located at county facilities outside the downtown Seattle metropolitan core and include, but are not limited to, district courts, health centers, alcohol
treatment facilities, police precincts, youth service centers and similar facilities. Designation of open surface lots that are subject to parking charges shall occur by administrative rule adopted pursuant to K.C.C. 3.32.010.
C. For county employees with disabilities that make it difficult or impossible to use public transit, and who display a disabled parking permit, the fee for covered parking in facilities managed by the facilities management division shall be fifty percent of the
monthly employee rate, rounding up to the next even dollar. Employees with disabilities shall receive first priority in the assignment of available parking stalls.