King County - File #: 2009-0534

• File #: 2009-0534
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Lapsed
• File created: 9/8/2009
• In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
• Final action: 2/1/2010
• Title: AN ORDINANCE modifying the use of transit funding that is described and approved in Ordinance 15582 and Attachment A to make it available for other, more beneficial transportation purposes; and amending Ordinance 15582, Section 4, and K.C.C. 4.29.020.
• Sponsors: Larry Gossett
• Indexes: transit, Transit Now 2006, Transportation
• Code sections: 4.29.020 -
• Staff: Thornbury, Arthur

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/10/2009	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Passed Out of Committee Without a Recommendation	Fail
11/4/2009	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
11/3/2009	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
10/27/2009	1	Budget and Fiscal Management Committee	Deferred
9/8/2009	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 09/03/2009
Title
AN ORDINANCE modifying the use of transit funding that is described and approved in Ordinance 15582 and Attachment A to make it available for other, more beneficial transportation purposes; and amending Ordinance 15582, Section 4, and K.C.C. 4.29.020.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: The council makes the following findings:
A. Ordinance 15582 was passed by the King County council and approved by the voters in 2006. By approving Ordinance 15582, the voters authorized King County to impose a one-tenth of one percent sales and use tax ("Transit Now tax"). Ordinance 15582 limits the use of the proceeds of the Transit Now tax to a program of public transportation improvements, described in Attachment A to ordinance 15582, to be implemented by King County Metro over a ten-year period. In approving Ordinance 15582, the council assumed that the current transit system would remain intact, and that the Transit Now improvements increase the overall 2006 transit system size.
B. Ordinance 15963, passed by the King County council in 2007, adopted the Strategic Plan for Public Transportation, 2007-2016 to provide guidance about improvements to the public transportation system. The guidance is consistent with Attachment A to Ordinance 15582, which describes the Transit Now program and with Ordinance 15756, which establishes processes and criteria to implement the partnership programs included in the Transit Now program. In the Strategic Plan, a phasing plan was included to guide how the new service hours would be invested over the ten-year period.
C. During 2007-2009, the public transportation improvements described in Attachment A to Ordinance 15582 were implemented by King County Metro according to the approved phasing plan in the adopted Strategic Plan.
D. In 2008, revenue projections for King County Metro from the office of management and budget were revised as they had been ...