Drafter
Clerk 5/2/2007
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to enter into an agreement with Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center for a direct financial partnership for transit service as authorized in Ordinance 15582.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. The Transit Now ordinance, Ordinance 15582, adopted by the council on September 5, 2006, and the subsequent Transit Now proposition approved by the voters in the general election on November 7, 2006, provides funds for new transit services. In addition to those services, the Transit Now ordinance authorizes King County Metro Transit to enter into certain service partnerships with public and private service partners to add other transit services mutually agreed to by the service partners and Metro Transit. Two types of service partnerships are authorized by the Transit Now ordinance: direct financial partnerships and speed-and-reliability partnerships.
B. According to the Transit Now ordinance, service partnership agreements are intended to: "leverage Metro's service resources to increase overall transit resources;" to be located "where transit service investments will generate the most riders;" to "act as a tool . . . to meet growth targets and improve transit market share to support employee commuting;" and to "target but not limit partnerships to designated urban, manufacturing, and industrial centers."
C. The Transit Now ordinance establishes the maximum number of annual service hours available for service partnerships, and sets minimum requirements for service partnership proposals to be eligible for service partnership agreements.
D. The Transit Now Service Partnership Criteria Ordinance, Ordinance xxxx adopts criteria for selecting among eligible applications for entering into service partnerships.
E. Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center's application for a direct financial partnership meets the minimum eligibility requirements and the priority criteria for such partnerships.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is hereby authorized on behalf of the county to execute an agreement for a service partnership with Children's Hospital and Medical Center, in substantially the form as Attachment A to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. The appropriate county officials, agents and employees are hereby authorized to take all actions necessary to implement the agreement and all actions up to now taken by county officials, agents and employees consistent with the terms and purposes of the agreement are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved.
SECTION 4. If any one or more of the covenants or agreements provided in this ordinance to be performed on the part of the county is declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such covenant or covenants, agreement or agreements, are null and void and shall be deemed separable from the remaining covenants and agreements of this ordinance and shall in no way affect the validity of the other provisions of this ordinance or the agreement.
SECTION 5. The authority granted in this ordinance is supplemental to all other powers of the county and nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as limiting or restricting any powers or authority conferred upon the county by law.
SECTION 6. If any provision of this ordinance or its application to any person or
circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
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