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ORDINANCE NO. 3386-14 /4/%%.6 /aA6 1104/111.1r AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT DISTRICT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 36.73 RCW WHEREAS, the City of Everett has the responsibility for the improvement, maintenance, protection and operation of public streets and ways within the corporate limits of the City ; and WHEREAS, the improvement, maintenance, protection and operation of public ways requires preserving existing transportation improvements to avoid both catastrophic failure of the improvements which would require significant additional funds to reconstruct, as well as their gradual deterioration; and WHEREAS, the number one priority in the "Washington Transportation Plan for 2007- 2026" adopted by the Washington Transportation Commission ("State Transportation Plan") is to preserve and extend prior investments in existing transportation facilities and the services they provide to people and commerce; and WHEREAS, the State Transportation Plan identifies in Section II that there is no more fundamental transportation investment than existing system preservation, keeping the physical infrastructure in safe and efficient operating condition; and WHEREAS, the state Transportation Plan on page 72 establishes unfunded high priorities of state-wide significance and includes the need to "[p]reserve, maintain and operate city streets $6 billion" thereby recognizing that the shortfall in funding to preserve, maintain and operate city streets is a matter of state-wide significance and accordingly, an eligible transportation improvement listed on the state plan within the meaning of RCW 36.73.015; and WHEREAS, Transportation 2040, this area's regional transportation plan, calls for transportation improvements that focus first on maintenance and preservation and after that on efficiency and mobility improvements that provide multimodal solutions; and WHEREAS, the City Council has adopted economic development goals and strategies and recognizes thatthe foundation of economic development isadequate infrastructure, including effective transportation facilities; and WHEREAS, the City has limited transportation funding to pay for necessary transportation preservation, maintenance and improvement and reduction of congestion on its streets; and WHEREAS, the funding dedicated for the preservation, maintenance and improvement of the City's transportation infrastructure has been dramatically reduced due to factors such as the passage of Initiative 695 in 1999 and Initiative 776 in 2002; and WHEREAS, while dedicated revenues have decreased, the ongoing annual costs to preserve, maintain and improve the City's transportation infrastructure continue to rise, leaving the City unable to continue to adequately preserve and maintain the City's transportation infrastructure; and