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Thurston County transportation benefit district: commissioners review options to assume powers, funding choices and projects
Summary
County staff briefed commissioners on an option to fold the Transportation Benefit District into the Board of County Commissioners, timelines and costs for an advisory vote, council‑ and voter‑funding options, and a two‑year project list that could be funded by TBD revenues.
Thurston County commissioners received an extended briefing on the Transportation Benefit District (TBD), including an option for the board to assume TBD powers, eligibility questions for board members, projected road fund pressures, timelines and costs for an advisory ballot measure, sample funding options, and a prioritized list of projects that TBD revenue could help fund.
Staff said RCW 36.74 permits a county’s board of commissioners to assume the TBD’s rights, powers, functions and obligations; doing so would dissolve the TBD as a separate legal entity and allow the county’s prosecuting attorney’s office to advise the TBD. Staff noted that most cities and many TBDs adopt the “assume powers” approach and that Jefferson County recently used that…
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