AN ORDINANCE relating to the Seattle Monorail, authorizing the Director of the Seattle Center Department to execute a second amendment to the easement agreement with Westlake Center, LLC previously authorized by Ordinance 113272; providing additional easement area for improvement and expansion of the Monorail station platform; granting rights to install and maintain ticket kiosks and commercial and informational signage; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Agenda Item two Capital 119815 relates to the settlement or authorizing the director of the South County Department to execute a Second Amendment to the easement agreement with Westlake Center LLC, previously authorized by. Audit. 113272 providing additional easement area for the expansion of the monorail station platform, granting rights to install and maintain a kiosk and commercial and informational signage and ratifying and affirming certain prior acts. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I will move to pass Council Bill 119815. Is there a second? Okay. It's been we've been seconded to pass the bill. Councilmember Suarez, you are the sponsor of the bill, so you are recognized in order to address it. Thank you. This regards the monorail expansion, as you heard from the clerk from my comments this morning. This legislation allows the Seattle Center director, Robert Dellums, to take the next step in moving forward with the platform expansion by authorizing execution of an amendment to the existing monorail, operating and easement agreement with Westlake Center. Westlake Center owns the Westlake Monorail Station platform and the monorail use. The site utilizes it under the terms of a 1987 monorail operating and easement agreement. This legislation amends the easement with that Westlake Center. The monorail, which is owned by the city and operated by a concessionaire. Seattle Monorail Services asked to transport 6000 riders per hour each direction of travel. Traffic mitigation efforts are underway in anticipation of the arena's opening, which should be fall of 2021. To achieve that maximum capacity. The size and layout of the Westlake Center monorail station needs to be modified. The legislation expands access ways, provides new ticketing equipment and gateways, as well as information and commercial signage. Monorail services will pay 6.6 million for platform capital improvements and another 38,000 a year for use cleaning and maintenance of the added space. The amortized cost of the improvements will be reimbursed with monorail revenues over the remaining 14 years of the Seattle Monorail Services Concession Agreement. As you know, colleagues, we've been working on this for a couple of years. Hopefully it will go as planned and we will open the Staples Center in fall of 2021 as chair of the Public Asset and Native Communities Committee. I recommend full council to pass this bill. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Suarez, are there any other comments on the bill? Councilmember Strauss. Thank you. Council President Thank you, Councilmember Waters, for your leadership on this agreement. We know that the monorail is going to be that last mile connection between our light rail system and the new climate pledge arena at the Seattle center. We are going to with these changes, will be able to see more people able to move, be moved faster, being able to use both trains rather than just one at a time. This is going to change the way that we're able to use the monorail and get to Seattle Center. So thank you all for your leadership. Director Nelmes in particular. Any other comments on the bill? KC Nunn. Thank you so much, Councilmember Suarez, for bringing this bill forward. I know it's been many years in the in the works, so appreciate the opportunity to support this bill as well. I would ask that the Kirk please call the role on the passage of the bill. RS. I. Lewis. I. Morales. I. Macheda I Pietersen. I so want. I. Strauss. I herbold i President Gonzalez. I am in favor and unopposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it and ask that the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation. Will the clerk please read item three into the record?