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AN ORDINANCE to adopt the King County Department of Local Services, Road Services Division, Annual Six-Year (2024 - 2029) Capital Improvement Program in accordance with K.C.C. 4A.100.030, to serve as the County's adopted 2024 Annual Road Plan in accordance with RCW 36.81.130 and to serve as the County's Adopted Comprehensive Transportation Program in accordance with RCW 36.81.121.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. K.C.C. 4A.100.010 requires King County adopt a biennial budget for such County funds as the Council may determine and conduct a midbiennium review and modification for the second year of the biennium.
2. K.C.C. 4A.100.0130 requires each county agency to include its capital projects in a Six-Year Capital Improvement Program ("CIP") for the fiscal period and the next fiscal periods.
3. In conjunction with the 2023-2024 biennial budget process, the Road Services Division of the Department of Local Services prepared, and the Council adopted the Road Services Division's Six-Year CIP for 2023-2028.
4. RCW 36.81.121 requires that before the adoption of a Roads Division Budget, the Council must adopt a Comprehensive Transportation Program for the next ensuing six calendar years. The purpose of the statute is to ensure that each county shall perpetually have available advanced plans looking to the future for not less than six years as a guide in carrying out a coordinated transportation plan.
5. RCW 36.81.130 requires the Council to adopt an Annual Road Plan. Any appropriations contained in a County Road Budget are void if the County's Annual Road Plan is not adopted before such appropriations.
6. The proposed Roads Six-Year CIP for 2024-2029 incorporates the executive's proposed amendments to the Roads Division Capital Budget included in the second omnibus supplemental.
7. Attachment A to this Ordinance is the Roads Division Six-Year CIP for 2024-2029.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The King County Road Services Division 2024-20...
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