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| 1200 King County Courthouse
516 Third Avenue Seattle, WA 98104 |
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| Meeting Proceedings | ||||||||
| Transportation Committee | ||||||||
| Councilmembers: Dwight Pelz, Chair; Rob McKenna, Vice-Chair; Carolyn
Edmonds, Kathy Lambert, Larry Gossett, David W. Irons, Julia Patterson Staff: Paul Carlson (296-1673), Lead Analyst; Doug Hodson (296-1668), Analyst; Arthur Thornbury (296-1680), Analyst; Angelica Vazquez (296-1661), Committee Assistant |
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| Room 1001 | June 5, 2002 | 1:00 P.M. | ||||
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| SPECIAL MEETING | ||
| Call to Order | |||||||
| The meeting of the Transportation Committee was called to order at 1:13 P.M. by Chair Pelz. | |||||||
| Roll Call | |||||||
| Present: Mr. Pelz, Mr. McKenna, Ms. Lambert, Mr. Gossett and Ms. Patterson
Excused: Ms. Edmonds and Mr. Irons |
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| Approval of Minutes | |||||||
| 1. | |||||||
| The minutes of May 22, 29 and 30, 2002 meetings were approved as written. | |||||||
| Discussion and Possible Action | |||||||
| 2. | |||||||
| Proposed Ordinance No. 2002-0243 | Mr. Pelz | ||||||
| AN ORDINANCE relating to an agreement for joint light rail and bus operations in the
downtown Seattle transit tunnel with the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority; adopting an agreement between and among King County, the city of Seattle and the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority. |
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| The following people were present to offer public testimony:
1. Michael Richmond, 1754 So. Horton, Seattle, WA 98144 2. Richard Borkowski, 131 Bellevue Avenue E., Seattle, WA 98102 3. Mark Dublin, 3038 NW Market, #3, Seattle, WA 98107 4. Sydney Elmer, 1617 Boylston Avenue, Seattle, WA 98133 5. Lance F. Norton, A.T.U. 587, 2700 1st Avenue, #204, Seattle, WA 98102 6. Peter Coates, 2700 1st Avenue, #101, Seattle, WA 98121 7. Kevin Shively, Regional Policy and Field Coordinator, Transportation Choices Coalition. 8. Dan McGrady 9. Jonathan Lazer, City of Seattle The Chair introduced the following panels: Downtown Street Improvements represented by Matt Shelden, Transit Planner, Transit Division and Mike Williams, Sound Transit. Joint Operations represented by Jim Jacobson, Deputy General Manager, DOT; Charles Joseph, Sound Transit; David Hopkins, King County Regional Transit Manager and Mike Williams, Sound Transit. Safety - Fire and Life Safety issues represented by Chief Nelsen, Seattle Fire Department; Hamid Qasim, Sound Transit and Terry Compton, Supervisor of Transit Safety, Transit Division, DOT. Design and Construction Issues represented by Judy Riley, Transit Design and Construction Manager; Joe Beck, Engineer, Transit Division, DOT and Ahmad Fazel, Sound Transit. Risk and Insurance represented by Keith Mitchell, Deputy Risk Manager, Risk Management Division all were present to brief and answer questions of the Committee regarding Proposed Ordinance 2002-0243. |
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| Deferred | |||||||
| 3. | |||||||
| Proposed Ordinance No. 2002-0242 | Mr. Pelz | ||||||
| AN ORDINANCE authorizing execution of an agreement with the Central Puget Sound
Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) and the state of Washington, by and through its Department of Transportation to provide the real property, real property interests, and associated operating agreements to allow Sound Transit to construct and operate a LINK light rail alignment on and adjacent to the E-3 Busway between the southern boundary of the Downtown Transit Tunnel and South Forest Street. |
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| Deferred | |||||||
| Adjournment | |||||||
| There being no further business to come before the Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 3:06 | |||||||
| P.M.
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