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Item No:  6b_attach 3

Date 0: meeting: April  6,  2010

Attachment 3

RESOLUTION NO. 3500

A RESOLUTION    of the Port Commission of the Port of Seattle authorizing the '
Chief Executive Ofcer to enter into a 2002 Memorandum of
Understanding for Phases I and II of the Freight Action
Strategy for the Seattle-Tacoma ("FAST") Corridor.

WHEREAS, the assurance of continued freight and passenger mobility throughout the

Puget Sound is an issue of critical strategic importance to the Port; and

WHEREAS, the Port of Seattle has joined with other agencies and private partners in

the Freight Action Strategy for Seattle and Tacoma ("FAST") Corridor partnership; and

WHEREAS, this partnership has resulted in the completion of several of the grade

separations and port access projects, and substantive progress on the remaining projects

envisioned in Phase 1; and

WHEREAS, representatives of the Port of Seattle; the Washington State Department

of Transportation (WSDOT), Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board (Fl'SIB) and

Transportation Improvement Board (TIB); the Puget Sound}?egiqnal'Cougiil, the ports of

Tacoma and Everett, King County, Pier/:L'Cwnty and ".unomish County, The Burlington

Northern Santa Fe Raay CompanyhthellnionPacific Railroad Company, the Washington

Trucking Association, and the: cities of Tacoma, Fife, Puyallup, Sumner, Pacific, Algona,

Auburn, Kent, Renton, Tukwila, Seattle and Everett, all located along the Everett-Seattle-

Tacoma corridor, have reached consensus and recommended the projects shown in

Attachment B to Exhibit A of this resolution as a Phase 2 program of projects for
an
integrated freight mobility strategy; and

WHEREAS, detailed procedures for funding and disbursement of funds and other

factors among the FAST Corridor partners will come before the Port Commission for review

and approval on a project by project basis;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Port Commission of Seattle that:

l.       The Chief Executive Ofcer (CEO) is hereby authorized to execute a 2002

Memorandum of Understanding for Phases I and II of the FAST Corridor ("MOU"),

in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A and by this reference

incorporated herein.
Exhibit B.
2.       A copy of the final executed MOU shall be attached to this Resolution as
72/797
ADOPTED by the Port of Seattle at a regular meeting thereof, held on this            day of
MIMI y ,
2003, and duly authenticated in open session by the signatures of the Commissioners

voting in favor thereof and the seal of the'Commission.
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PAIGE MILLER



BOB EDWARDS
Port Commissioners