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Clerk 03/13/2003
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute an interlocal agreement for the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the regional fare coordination system.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County and other governmental entities in the central Puget Sound region provide public transportation services within their service areas and, as part of the services, collect fares from riders.
2. The county has determined that regional fare coordination promotes the use of public transportation throughout the region due to increased ease and convenience for customers.
3. Under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, chapter 39.34 RCW, the county and other providers of public transportation in the region may jointly exercise their powers to better coordinate their respective services and fare payment systems to improve the availability, reliability and convenience of public transportation services within their service areas and throughout the region.
4. The county and other providers of public transportation in the region have participated in a procurement process seeking a contractor to design, implement, operate and maintain a regional fare coordination system that uses smart card technology to establish a common, noncash fare system throughout their service areas.
5. The procurement process has identified a vendor with whom contract negotiations are currently underway.
6. The purpose of the interlocal agreement attached to this ordinance is to establish the respective roles and responsibilities of the agencies in the regional fare coordination system should a vendor contract be developed that is acceptable to the county and other public transportation providers in the region.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute, substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance, an interlocal agreement for the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the regional fare coordination system, which authority is subject to the conditions that:
A. The interlocal agreement is entered into by at least three other providers of public transportation services in the region; and
B. A vendor contract has been developed on terms that are acceptable to the executive and consistent with the provisions of the interlocal agreement.
SECTION 2. If, by April 25, 2003, Everett Transit is authorized by its governing board to enter into the interlocal agreement, then the executive is hereby authorized to execute a replacement interlocal agreement that is modified as necessary to include Everett Transit as a party and that replaces the finance plan that is Exhibit C to Attachment A to this ordinance with the finance plan that is Attachment B to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. The executive is hereby required to notify the council in writing no later than May 9, 2003, of which version of the interlocal agreement was executed.
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