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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Hello Community Partners,</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">We are reaching out to provide a status update and share next steps for the Metro Transit Policy Updates that many of you have helped to shape through your input and involvement over the last year.  </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Since our final Policy Updates meeting last spring, Metro incorporated Equity Cabinet and community stakeholder input to complete the draft updates to the Strategic Plan, Metro Connects, and the Service
 Guidelines. In July the King County Executive transmitted those policies to the King County Council. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Below you will find an overview of the Council process and timeline and information about how to provide comments to elected leaders along with a refresher on the key proposed changes to center equity and
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">We greatly appreciate your involvement throughout our engagement process and would be happy to connect with you if you have any questions or would like more information.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Policy Updates Council process</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">The Policy Updates will first be reviewed by the Regional Transit Committee and the Mobility and Environment Committee, then on to the full King County Council for adoption.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 Environment Committee</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"> is a subcommittee of the full King County Council that reviews legislation on transportation and environment related plans, policies, and budgets.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">The Policy Updates will be (or are anticipated to be) on the agendas for the following Council and Committee meetings. All Council and Committee meetings will be held virtually until further notice. Please
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Overview of key changes in the Policy Updates</span></b></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Background </span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">In 2019, a 23-member Equity Cabinet convened to co-create the Mobility Framework with Metro. The Mobility Framework provides guiding principles and recommendations to steer Metro’s work and to prepare our
 region for mobility innovations in a way that puts marginalized communities first; addresses climate goals; and uses public space efficiently and equitably. Following adoption by the King County Council, work began to update Metro’s guiding policy documents
 to better align with the Mobility Framework. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">How does Metro define equity?</span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Metro defines equity as a system of fairness, providing full and equal access to opportunities, power, and resources. The policy updates take a ‘targeted universalism’ approach, outlining how Metro will specifically target
 and tailor investments towards communities with the greatest needs, to improve priority populations’ mobility, and thereby access to other determinants of equity.   </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="color:black">Where in the updates is equity specifically centered or prioritized? </span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">In alignment with, and in response to the Mobility Framework:  </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><u><span style="color:black">The Strategic Plan</span></u></b><span style="color:black"> - <b>Metro’s high-level goals, strategies, objectives, and measures</b> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Increases transparency of performance monitoring with a public facing online dashboard, consistent with Mobility Framework recommendations. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><u><span style="color:black">Metro Connects</span></u></b><span style="color:black"> - <b>Metro’s long-range vision for the capital and service network through 2050</b> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Includes an Equity Gap Analysis and commits the future system to advance equity and address climate change. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Emphasizes the need to make information more accessible. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Calls for increased communication about innovations, and to ensure that innovations respond to community-identified needs. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Calls for improved communications with strategies targeting priority populations. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Emphasizes universal design, safe facilities, and prioritizing access for people who bike, walk, or roll to stations. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Incorporates Metro’s work on equitable transit-oriented communities, and commitment to increase access to affordable housing. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Calls for a diverse workforce that reflects communities and an increased focus on becoming an anti-racist organization. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Provides policy guidance to prioritize </span></span><span class="spellingerror"><span style="color:black">RapidRide</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black"> and other
 Capital investments by leading with equity and sustainability. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Directs Metro to co-create upstream decisions with priority population communities on upstream decisions for the greatest opportunity and to align with community-identified
 priorities, and articulates a list of non-financial partnership opportunities and ways Metro may work with cities with fewer staff and/or higher percentages of priority populations </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><u><span style="color:black">The Service Guidelines</span></u></b><span style="color:black"> - <b>Metro’s criteria for evaluating, designing and modifying transit service</b> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Includes substantial changes throughout the document to incorporate a stronger focus on advancing equity and addressing climate change, as outlined in the Mobility Framework’s
 recommendations and guiding principles. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Prioritizes service growth investments based on equity, productivity, and then geographic value. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">In addition to productivity, adds equity to the list of current measures used to prioritize routes being considered for reductions. </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:black">Expands the definition of social equity from race and income, to also include disability, immigrants and refugees, linguistically diverse populations, low- and no-income populations,
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