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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2044

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Representative Cooper).

Read first time March 6, 1991.  Expanding membership of the transportation improvement board.

     AN ACT Relating to the membership of the transportation improvement board; amending RCW 47.26.121; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 47.26.121 and 1990 c 266 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) There is hereby created a transportation improvement board of ((fifteen)) seventeen members, six of whom shall be county members and six of whom shall be city members.  The remaining members shall be:  (a) The assistant secretary of the department of transportation whose primary responsibilities relate to planning and public transportation; (b) the assistant secretary for highways of the department of transportation; ((and))  (c) the ((state aid engineer)) assistant secretary for local programs of the department of transportation; (d) a representative of a public transit system; and (e) a private sector representative.

     (2) Of the county members of the board, one member shall be a county engineer from a county of the first class or larger; one member shall be a county engineer from a county of the second class or smaller; one member shall be the executive director of the county road administration board, created by RCW 36.78.060; two members shall be county executives, council members, or commissioners from counties of the first class or larger; one member shall be a county executive, council member, or commissioner from a county of the second class or smaller.  All county members of the board, except the executive director of the county road administration board, shall be appointed.  Not more than one county member of the board shall be from any one county.  For the purposes of this subsection, the term "county engineer" ((shall)) means the director of public works in any county in which such a position exists.

     (3) Of the city members of the board two shall be chief city engineers, public works directors, or other city employees with responsibility for public works activities, of cities over twenty thousand population; one shall be a chief city engineer, public works director, or other city employee with responsibility for public works activities, of a city of less than twenty thousand population; two shall be mayors, commissioners, or city council members of cities of more than twenty thousand population; and one shall be a mayor, commissioner, or council member of a city of less than twenty thousand population.  All of the city members shall be appointed.  Not more than one city member of the board shall be from any one city.

     (4) The transit member shall be a general manager, executive director, or transit director of a city-owned transit system, county transportation authority, metropolitan municipal corporation, or public transportation benefit area.

(5) The private sector member shall be a citizen with business, management, and transportation related experience and shall be active in a business community-based transportation organization.

(6) Appointments of county ((and)), city, transit, and private sector representatives shall be made by the secretary of the department of transportation, with ((initial)) appointments to be made by July 1, ((1988)) 1991.  Appointees shall be chosen from a list of two persons for each position nominated by the Washington state association of counties for county members ((and)), the association of Washington cities for city members, and the Washington state transit association for the transit member.  ((Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, terms of appointment are four years.))  In the case of a vacancy, the appointment shall be only for the remainder of the unexpired term in which the vacancy has occurred.  A vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred on the board when any member elected to public office completes that term of office or is removed therefrom for any reason or when any member employed by a political subdivision terminates such employment for whatsoever reason.

     (((5) The initial appointment to the board for three county representatives and three city representatives shall be for terms of two years and the remainder of the)) (7) Appointments shall be for terms of four years.  Terms of all appointed members shall expire on June 30th of even-numbered years.

     (((6))) (8) The board shall elect a chair from among its members for a two-year term.

     (((7))) (9) Expenses of the board, including administration of the transportation improvement program, shall be paid from the urban arterial account.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.      This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1991.