Drafter
Clerk 05/06/2011
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to establishing a per-use fee for public use of King County-owned electric vehicle charging stations; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 4.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In 2010, Ordinance 16804, creating an electric vehicle charging station program that provides publicly available charging stations, was adopted by the King County council and approved by the King County executive.
2. The ordinance requires the program to recover all of its operating costs through flat-rate, time-based or combination use fees for all vehicles using the electric vehicle charging stations on county-owned, leased or partnering organizations' property.
a. Under the ordinance, operating costs include, but are not limited to, the county's costs of planning, outreach and administration, utility costs related to the charging stations and facility enforcement costs.
b. Any supplemental capital costs in excess of a five-hundred-thousand-dollar county maximum that is not financed through any grant source must also be fully recovered as part of the use fees; however, the King County department of transportation does not expect capital costs to exceed that maximum and it has the ability to scale back site work to stay within the maximum.
3. Ordinance 16804 also requires annual reporting to the King County council by June 30 of each year that addresses the affordability of user fees, usage of the charging stations, cost recovery and public benefit for King County's electric vehicle charging program participants and compared to other programs in Washington state. The report will be used by the council to evaluate the program and to decide whether or not the program should continue beyond three years.
4. King County is installing electric vehicle charging stations at multiple sites throughout the county for public and county vehicle use. Some of these sites include Burien Transit Center Park-and-Ride, Issaquah Highlands Park-a...
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