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Clerk 03/10/2010
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A MOTION establishing a work plan for a regional stakeholder task force to recommend a policy framework to the executive and council that reflects prioritization of key system design factors.
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WHEREAS, Ordinance 16717, adopting the 2010 King County Budget, including Metro transit's 2010-2011 biennium budget, contains Section 131, Expenditure Restriction ER3, which directs the executive to transmit a detailed work plan for a regional stakeholder task force to consider a policy framework that reflects prioritization of the key system design factors, and
WHEREAS, the work plan shall include a scope of work, tasks, schedule, milestones, budget and appointment criteria and process for municipal and community stakeholders, and a coordinated staff working group, and
WHEREAS, the policy framework for the regional stakeholder task force should include:
1. Concurrence with or proposed changes to the vision and mission of the King County Transit system;
2. Criteria for systematically growing the transit system to achieve the vision;
3. State and legislative agenda issues to achieve the vision;
4. Strategies for increasing efficiency of the King County transit system; and
5. Criteria for systematically reducing the transit system should revenues not be available to sustain the King County transit system, and
WHEREAS, the task force shall explore the King County transit system based on key system design factors and integration within the region's public transportation and overall transportation system, and
WHEREAS, the task force shall develop recommendations by September 2010 that will give direction on how and to what extent system design factors should be reflected in the design of King County's transit system, and
WHEREAS, the task force shall develop recommendations by September 2010 regarding King County Metro's role within the region's public transportation and overall transportation system, and
WHEREAS, the task force shall develop a policy framework by September, 2010, that reflects prioritization of the key system design factors, and
WHEREAS, Motion 13138 describes the details of the task force charge, composition, oversight, facilitation and support, and
WHEREAS, the executive, with this motion, has transmitted to the council a work plan;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
The King County council hereby adopts the work plan for a regional stakeholder task force to recommend the extent that key system design factors should be reflected in King County's transit system, and to recommend King County Metro's role within the
region's public transportation and overall transportation system, and to recommend a policy framework that reflects prioritization of the key system design factors.