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AN ORDINANCE relating to parking at the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center; and amending Ordinance 15648, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.006, Ordinance 12077, Section 16, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.010, Ordinance 12077, Section 17, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.020, Ordinance 3511, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.040, Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.042, Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 and Ordinance 8753, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.090.

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                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  Ordinance 15648, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.006 are 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 related parking Monday through Friday 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 work-related parking on weekends and holidays that is required by the employee's agency.  "After-hours parking" does not include parking for non-related activities.

                     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, 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)) facility located at Sixth Avenue and Jefferson Street in Seattle;

                       2.  The Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center parking ((structure)) facility located at 401 Fourth Avenue North ((the Regional Justice Center)) in Kent;

                       3.  The King County adult ((detention center)) correctional facility parking ((facilities)) facility located at Fifth Avenue and James Street in Seattle;

                       4.  The Chinook Building parking facility located at Fifth Avenue and Jefferson Street in Seattle; ((and))

                       5.  The King Street Center parking facility, located at 201 South Jackson Street in Seattle; and

                       6.  The Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center parking facility located at 1211 East Alder 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 or designee, unless otherwise specified in this chapter.

                     F.  "Electric Vehicle" means a vehicle that uses only electricity, must be plugged in to charge and is propelled by one or more electric motors powered by rechargeable battery packs.

                     G.  "Employees with disabilities" means county employees with disabilities that make it difficult or impossible to use public transit, and who display a disabled parking permit.

                     H.  "Motorcycle" means a motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, on which the driver rides astride the motor unit or power train and is designed to be steered with a handle bar, excluding a farm tractor, an electric personal assistive mobility device and a moped.

                     ((H.)) I.  "Public parking" means general purpose parking by persons who are not county employees.

                     ((I.)) J.  "Qualified employee carpool" means employees who have been qualified as part of a carpool through the King County Employee Transportation Program.

                     SECTION 2.  Ordinance 12077, Section 16, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.010 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     Administrative regulations adopted by the department of executive services shall include, but not be limited to, the following subjects:

                     A.  Identification of positions eligible for reserved and unreserved parking;

                     B.  Regulation of after-hours and weekend parking;

                     C.  Enforcement procedures, including certification and monitoring of carpools and the establishment of procedures for handling complaints;

                     D.  Designation of the public parking areas;

                     E.  Prohibition of the resale of the parking stall assignment;

                     F.  Designation of reserved and unreserved parking areas; and

                     G.  Establishment of public parking rates at the county automotive parking facilities, excluding the King County International Airport which is governed by K.C.C. Title 15.  The public parking rates shall be based upon the advice and market rate information regularly collected and analyzed by the private contractor hired to manage and operate the ((lot)) parking facility or by the director in those cases where the ((lot)) parking facility is not managed by a private contractor.  The director may authorize the contractor to make periodic rate adjustments within a specified range, but shall periodically review the contractor's rate adjustments, rate setting methods and research to ensure that they are based on current data.

                     SECTION 3.  Ordinance 12077, Section 17, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.020 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     A.  All county employees, elected officials and county volunteers shall pay their own parking fees unless they are parking for the business convenience of the county.  The agency served by an employee, elected official or county volunteer, who is parking for the business convenience of the county, shall be charged for such parking at a rate equal to the county employee rate.  Current county employees covered by existing collective bargaining agreements shall be affected only in a manner consistent with state law.  There shall not be any other exemptions from parking fees except as otherwise provided in a collective bargaining agreement.

                     B.  The parking fees for monthly parking that is not for the business convenience of the county shall be paid through monthly payroll deductions from the wages of the employee or elected official who is assigned the regular use of the county parking stall regardless of whether that person is assigned the use of a county-owned vehicle, assigned a vehicle provided at county expense((,)) or uses a privately((-)) owned vehicle.

                     C.  In order to evaluate the appropriateness of any potential adjustments to established employee parking rates, the ((department of executive services,)) facilities management division of the department of executive services may conduct a survey of the monthly parking rates charged for public parking in comparable ((lots)) parking facilities.  The survey and any employee parking fee recommendations shall be forwarded to the council for consideration during the budget process.

                     D.  The public parking rates shall be based upon the advice and market rate information regularly collected and analyzed by the private contractor hired to manage and operate the ((lot)) parking facility or by the director in those cases where the ((lot)) parking facility is not managed by a private contractor.  The director may authorize the contractor to make periodic rate adjustments within a specific range, but shall periodically review the contractor's rate adjustments, rate setting methods and research to ensure that they are based on current data.

                     SECTION 4.  Ordinance 3511, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.040 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     Public parking space within county automotive parking facilities shall be made available to the extent practicable.  Members of the public on county business shall be charged for all time parked.  Religious service volunteers who work at the King County ((jail)) correctional facility are parking for the business convenience of the department of adult and juvenile detention.

                     SECTION 5.  Ordinance 12077, Section 18, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.042 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     A.  Monthly employee and county vehicle rates for parking in the parking facilities at Goat Hill ((parking garage)), the Chinook Building, the King County ((C))correctional ((F))facility((,)) and the King Street Center ((garage)) shall be as follows:

                     B.  ((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.)) Monthly employee and county vehicle rates for parking in the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center parking facility shall be ten dollars.

                     C.  Employees with disabilities shall receive first priority in the assignment of available parking stalls.

                     SECTION 6.  Ordinance 8753, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.045 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     The rates for county employees parking at the Goat Hill and King Street Center parking ((garages)) facilities 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 work-related parking shall be seven dollars per day.

                     SECTION 7.  Ordinance 8753, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.32.090 are hereby amended to read as follows:

                     All revenues derived from parking fees shall be distributed as follows:

                     A.  Applicable local and state taxes;

                     B.  An allocation to cover rent payments or debt service payments for the Goat Hill parking ((garage)) facility and ((pro-rated)) prorated rent for the parking portion of the Chinook Building and King Street Center;

                     C.  It is the intent of the council to biennially, during the budget process, identify a portion of the revenue going to the current expense fund to be transferred to the major maintenance reserve fund to support major maintenance projects at the ((garage and other)) parking facilities, taking into account the major maintenance model and financial plan;

                     D.  An allocation to the facilities management division of the department of executive services's internal service fund to reimburse the fund for expenses associated

with the operation of the parking ((program)) facilities; and

                     E.  The residual revenues distributed to the general fund.