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RESOLUTION NO. 5398 A RESOLUTION authorizing special fare media for patrons of the Everett Senior Center. WHEREAS, the Everett Senior Center, a gathering place for life enhancing activities, provides a vital service to our senior citizens; and WHEREAS, the Everett Senior Center, located at the corner of Pacific and Lombard, has traditionally relied upon on-street parking and thirty-nine (39) off-street parking stalls to serve over three hundred (300) daily visitors to the center; and WHEREAS, the Snohomish County Government is undergoing a significant campus re-development in downtown Everett, estimated to be complete in fall of 2004; and WHEREAS, the Everett Events Center generates activity requiring on-street parking adjacent to the Everett Senior Center; and WHEREAS, EVERETT TRANSIT operates a public transit system for routed bus service, and para-transit service; and WHEREAS, EVERETT TRANSIT, as stated in its mission statement, is charged with helping "local governments manage anticipated Snohomish County growth in a manner that minimizes the negative environmental and social consequences"; and WHEREAS, EVERETT TRANSIT operates Everett Station, a multi-modal regional transportation center with spaces for over seven hundred parked vehicles; and WHEREAS, EVERETT TRANSIT fixed route services provide frequent trips between the Everett Senior Center and Everett Station; and WHEREAS, senior citizens, age sixty-two and over, may currently ride EVERETT TRANSIT fixed route services without paying a fare, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM; and WHEREAS, increasing the fare free provision for seniors for trips on all EVERETT TRANSIT services between the Everett Senior Center and Everett Station is believed to encourage the use of Everett Transit services and mitigate parking concerns at and near the Everett Senior Center;