Site updates
This page lists changes that have been made to the site since its launch on June 11, 2007.
Feb. 29, 2008
Service partnership ordinance (2008-0118) transmitted to County Council
On February 21, 2008 King County Executive Ron Sims transmitted a package of recommended service partnerships to the King County Council for approval. The Executive announced his recommendations in a Feb. 20 news release, and those who had made partnership proposals were invited to hear a staff presentation of those recommendations that same day.
Executive Sims has recommended that the county enter into agreements for all of the eligible financial partnership proposals we received, as well as for the two top-ranked speed and reliability partnerships. These partnerships would be phased from September 2008 through 2012.
Demand for partnerships was high. The Transit Now ballot measure allocated 90,000 annual transit hours for service partnerships; interested partners requested over 125,000 hours. The remaining lower-ranked partnership proposals—six other speed and reliability partnerships—are recommended for a contingency list.
Executive Sims’ transmittal letter to Council President Julia Patterson describes the context, recommended partnerships and implementation dates for partnership agreements.
The council’s Transportation Committee is expected to consider the Service Partnership Ordinance during its next several meetings. To view the ordinance and all supporting documents, and to track the legislation’s progress through the council, check Legisearch for legislative file number 2008-0118.
Agreement templates updated
After receiving comments from prospective partners and additional legal review, the county has updated the agreement templates for both direct financial partnerships and speed and reliability partnerships.
These updates are part of the service partnership ordinance transmittal package.
- Direct financial partnership agreement template (scroll down)
- Speed and reliability partnership agreement template (scroll down)
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Sept. 20, 2007
Direct financial partnerships proposals
One of the required items partners must include in direct financial proposals has been listed as “the service costs.” We are revising this item to read “the estimated service costs.”
Some prospective partners expressed concern that precise service costs cannot be known at this stage. Therefore, partners submitting proposals by October 1 should include current estimates of service costs.
Once the service is scheduled, an updated estimate will be specified in the partnership agreement. We often find that estimated costs drop as we look for efficiencies in scheduling the service. For billing purposes, partners will be notified annually of actual per mile and per hour rates for that year. (See section 5.2 of the agreement template - http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/partnerships/direct_template.pdf)
To view the change on the proposal page, see http://www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/partnerships/direct_proposal.stm
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Sept. 11, 2007
King County has posted template agreements for both types of service partnerships (direct financial and speed and reliability). These templates are intended to help our prospective partners anticipate the contractual requirements of service partnerships. Details of each agreement will be negotiated and will appear in Attachment A of any agreement.
A template for a financial partnership has been posted on the direct financial partnerships page, as well as a sample of a current agreement with details applicable to that partnership.
A template for a speed and reliability partnership has been posted on the speed and reliability partnerships page.
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Aug. 24, 2007
Deadlines have changed for final speed and reliability proposals:
- October 1, 2007 remains the deadline for final proposals for financial partnerships.
- October 1, 2007 is now the deadline for preliminary, rather than final, speed and reliability partnership proposals. For required content of the preliminary proposal, visit www.metrokc.gov/kcdot/transitnow/partnerships/speed_proposal.stm.
- October 31, 2007 is the deadline for Metro to provide technical information and analysis results to applicant cities about the State Route 99 South, Bel-Red, and West Seattle RapidRide corridors.
- December 21, 2007 is the new deadline for final speed and reliability partnership proposals (details to come).
For more details about the changes and schedule, please see Revised schedule and process for speed and reliability partnerships (74KB PDF)
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>July 12, 2007
The organizations listed in the document below submitted letters of interest for service partnerships as of July 9. Some of these organizations submitted more than one idea. Several other organizations not listed here sent letters of support related to another organization’s proposal.
All organizations that sent letters of interest will be contacted by Metro staff to schedule time in the next few weeks to discuss the partnership ideas.
TN_partnership_orgs.pdf [35KB PDF]
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June 28, 2007
Pre-proposal meeting held June 21—Representatives from 12 cities and nine employers or other organizations attended the optional pre-proposal meeting on Thursday, June 21. We have updated the Questions and Answers page to include questions discussed at the meeting. The new material begins with Question 11.
- List of attendees (12KB PDF)
- Metro staff members who presented information and answered questions: Matt Hansen, Malva Slachowitz, David Hull, Ellen Bevington, Victor Obeso
- Handouts:
- Transit Now Year 1: a report to the community (799KB PDF)
- Direct financial partnerships checklist (PDF, 20KB)
- Speed and reliability checklist (PDF, 31KB)
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If you have suggestions for improvements to this Web site, please send e-mail to ServicePartnerships@kingcounty.gov.
Last update: February 29, 2008