Drafter
Clerk 08/19/2024
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute an amendment extending the term of fiber optic installation and maintenance agreements; authorizing the executive to enter into future project agreements under approved general terms and conditions; and authorizing the executive to execute two project agreements for fiber optic installation and maintenance with the city of Seattle and the Washington state Department of Transportation.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Ordinance 12871 authorized the execution of a twenty-year interagency agreement among King County, the city of Seattle, the University of Washington, Seattle Community College District VI, the United States General Services Administration, Seattle Community Colleges, King County Library, and Seattle School District ("the participating agencies").
2. The interagency agreement set general terms and conditions to be used for shared fiber optic network installation and maintenance projects ("the general terms and conditions").
3. Ordinance 12871 further authorized the executive to a execute a specific project services addendums for fiber optic installations and maintenance from the Seattle Municipal Building to the Seattle Center using the general terms and conditions.
4. Since 1997, the county has executed other project services addendums using the general terms and conditions and committing the county to pay its proportionate share of capital and maintenance costs.
5. The cost of maintenance owed by the county under executed project services addendums is on average ten thousand dollars per year but generally continues beyond a single appropriation period.
6. In 2018, a proposed amendment to the general terms and conditions was presented to the participating agencies to extend all project services addendums for an additional ten years.
7. It is in the best interests of the residents of King County to extend the executed project services addendums for an additional ten ...
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