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Clerk 12/21/2022
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AN ORDINANCE related to the retired passenger van program; and amending Ordinance 12045, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.56.100.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Each year, the King County council provides retired passenger vans from the Metro transit department's vanpool program to nonprofit organizations or local governments to help meet the mobility needs of low-income, seniors or young people or people with disabilities.
2. The King County Code requires that agencies selected to receive a van must demonstrate "specific plans for use of the van to transport low-income, seniors or young people or people with disabilities."
3. In 2021, in recognition of the safety consequences of transporting people in passenger vans during the pandemic emergency and to facilitate organizations' ability to reduce single occupancy vehicle travel and meet the needs of low-income, seniors or young people or people with disabilities by transporting goods and supplies to them rather than transporting them directly, Ordinance 19241 was enacted, which provided flexibility in the use of retired passenger vans for the duration of the declared pandemic emergency.
4. That added flexibility has value beyond the pandemic emergency, by providing nonprofit organizations and local governments more tools to meet the needs of low-income, seniors or young people or people with disabilities. Allowing continued flexibility with the use of vans granted by the council will facilitate organizations' ability to reduce single occupancy vehicle travel while meeting the needs of low-income, seniors or young people or people with disabilities by transporting goods and supplies to them or by transporting them directly.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 12045, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 4.56.100 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
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