2019 - COFW Legislative Agenda CITY OF
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State
Legislative Priorities
The City of Federal Way is one hundred percent committed • Additional funding for police academy for more academy
to the legislative agenda of the Federal Way Public classes to address the shortage of entry-level officers
Schools (FWPS). Their issues are our issues. In particular, • $80,000 for a work crew program in Federal Way
we support:
• $200,000 to launch a Resource Center for Youth in Federal
• Increased Local Effort Assistance (LEA) to provide $2,500 Way on the lines of the Reach Center in Tacoma
per student • $150,000 to fund more after-school programs for youth in
• Creation of true labor market regions to calculate funding Federal Way
for regionalization • $100,000 to fund youth substance abuse treatment in
• Increase to Special Education multiplier to cover full costs of Federal Way
special education • $65,000 to fund a dedicated staff person to oversee violence
• Increased funded units in the funding model for safety prevention efforts
and security
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• $100,000 to provide sheltering for homeless families with • Fund "second phase" of University of Washington study on
children in Federal Way ultra-fine particles (UFPs) that would examine their health
• $50,000 to partner with a local non-profit on a trial impacts
program whereby "panhandlers" and others experiencing • Amend RCW 53.54 to enlarge the distance from a runway
homelessness would be paid an hourly wage to work on within which port districts are authorized to operate airport
city improvement projects, such as has been successfully noise abatement programs from six to twelve miles(HB 2497
implemented in Albuquerque, New Mexico sponsored by Rep. Pellicciotti in the 2018 session)
• $150,000 to support a comprehensive and • Legislation that would urge,allow,or require the lead agency
regularly updated online website where local/ for the environmental review of the Sustainable Airport
regional services available to those in need Master Plan (SAMP) under the State Environmental Policy
can be easily found Act (SEPA) to be a state agency (such as Department of
Transportation)rather than the Port of Seattle
• Reject changes (other than deadline for final study) to
budget proviso that funded Sea-Tac Airport local community
• impacts study
• $1,000,000 for land acquisition west
of North Lake on Former Weyerhaeuser
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• The impact of Light Rail upon Federal Way: • Support for Engrossed Substitute HB 2974
Impacts and Opportunities of Being End of that would
Line During South Sound Expansion: • Increase public awareness about proper
In cooperation with the University of Washington management of solid waste
Department of Urban Design and Planning, we are • Direct Department of Commerce to perform
requesting $216,000 over four years (2019-2022)for a economic analysis of recycling
twelve-quarter project examining the extensive nature �•
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• Fund at$50 million: • Extension of sidewalks on South 312th
• City Center Access Project that would improve Street from Steel Lake Park going west
access across and to I-5 from the planned urban • Integration of Phases III and IV of the
center of Federal Way's City Center area Adaptive Traffic Control System (South
• South 324th Street Extension that would provide 312th Street,Southwest Campus Drive,and
multi-modal access to and across I-5 First Avenue South)
• Fund at$20 million: • Construction of sidewalk on South 336th
• Improvements to the Southwest 336th-Southwest Street between SR-99, Pacific Highway
340th Corridor, including a roundabout at South and 20th Avenue South
Southwest 340th Street and Hoyt Road Southwest Construction of a southbound auxiliary lane
• Widening of South 356th between 1st Avenue between South 344th Street and South 348th
South and SR-99(Pacific Highway South)
Street along 16th Avenue South
• Fund at$5 million: Fund at$1 million:
• Improvements to SR-509(South Dash Point Road) Traffic Improvements to SR-509(South Dash Point
between 16th Avenue South and 9th Place South Road),including left-turn lanes, roundabouts,or a
combination, at the following locations(each an
• Construction of roundabout at State Route individual project at this funding level):
99 (Pacific Highway South) and South 373rd . 4th Avenue South
Street and Extension of 1st Avenue South to the
Southwest 301st Street
roundabout
• Project to increase circulation and traffic capacity 12th Avenue Southwest
in downtown Federal Way through: Construction of a signal at 21st Avenue South and
• Reconstruction of South 314th Street South 320th Street and integration into adaptive
between Pete von Reichbauer Way South traffic management system
and 23rd Avenue South