June 23, The Honorable Jay Inslee, Governor. The Honorable Mark Schoesler, Senate Majority Leader

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1 June 23, 2015 The Honorable Jay Inslee, Governor The Honorable Mark Schoesler, Senate Majority Leader The Honorable Sharon Nelson, Senate Minority Leader The Honorable Frank Chopp, House Speaker The Honorable Dan Kristiansen, House Minority Leader The Honorable Curtis King, Senate Transportation Chair The Honorable Judy Clibborn, House Transportation Chair & Members of the Washington State Legislature Dear Governor Inslee, Senators Schoesler, Nelson, and King; Speaker Chopp and Reps. Clibborn and Kristiansen; and all Members of the Washington State Legislature: We are writing in a united, bi-partisan spirit as leaders, representatives, and elected officials from business and labor, local government and contractors, trades and transit agencies, engineering companies and environmental organizations, and as members of coalitions that have worked with and talked to all of you about the critical need to pass a balanced transportation revenue and reform package this session. We are writing to remind you of the vital importance of a transportation package and the economic activity, jobs, quality of life and environmental enhancements, mobility, safety, transit, multimodal and congestion relief benefits that go with it. We are extremely disappointed to hear negotiations have been put on hold just as a historic $15 billion, 16-year package of investments was on the cusp of becoming a reality. To us, it would be disappointing and damaging to our economy not to enact a package, and we urge you to finish the job. It has been more than a decade since the State of Washington adopted a comprehensive statewide transportation package - it is well past time we do so. We can think of no better jobs package to continue our state s recovery from the Great Recession. A transportation package will improve the movement of freight and goods, bring good family-wage jobs to our contractors and our building trades, and bring our communities the transportation safety, capacity and mobility improvements that are long overdue. We understand the challenges surrounding the operating budget. We do not believe passage of a transportation package and passage of an operating budget are mutually exclusive. Adoption of a transportation package should be seen as a win for everyone the Governor, both chambers, both parties, and most of all the economy and the citizens you serve. Each of you have the chance to do something that is truly historic for our state this session by finishing the projects that have been on the drawing board for decades, by creating thousands of jobs, by spurring our economy, and by upgrading our transportation infrastructure. This job is too important to be left undone, and failure should not be an option. Please stay at it and pass a transportation investment package.

2 Sincerely, of Washington Business Washington Conservation Voters Washington Roundtable of Washington Cities Washington Environmental Council Washington State of Counties Washington State Building and Construction Trades, AFL-CIO Washington Public Ports Washington State Transit Adams County Commissioner John Marshall Arlington City Councilperson Debora Nelson Auburn Area Chamber of Bellingham Mayor Kelli Linville Bremerton Mayor Patty Lent Algona Mayor David Hill Arlington City Councilperson Jan Schuette Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus Benton Rural Electric Burien Deputy Mayor Nancy Tosta American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington Associated General Contractors of Washington Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci Black Diamond Mayor Carol Benson Burien Mayor Lucy Krakowiak Cheney Mayor Tom Trulove City of Algona City of Bellevue City of Bellingham City of Black Diamond City of Cheney City of Covington City of Des Moines City of Edmonds City of Everett City of Fife City of Issaquah City of Kelso City of Kenmore City of Kent City of Kirkland City of Lacey City of Lake Stevens City of Lakewood City of Longview City of Lynnwood City of Marysville City of Mercer Island City of Mountlake Terrace City of Pasco City of Puyallup City of Redmond City of Renton City of Richland City of Ridgefield City of SeaTac City of Tukwila City of Vancouver

3 Community Transit Covington Mayor Margaret Harto Covington Chamber of Dealers Auto Auction Northwest Covington City Councilmember Marlla Mhoon Des Moines Mayor Dave Kaplan Diehl Engineering Company DuPont Mayor Michael Grayum East King County Chambers of Legislative Coalition Economic Alliance Snohomish County Edmonds Mayor Dave Earling Eltech Electric Incorporated Enumclaw Mayor Liz Reynolds EnviroIssues Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson Fife Mayor Tim Curtis Fife Milton Edgewood Chamber Franklin County Commissioner Bob Koch Futurewise Gig Harbor Mayor Jill Guernsey Graham Trucking Greater Spokane Incorporated HNTB ILWU Puget Sound District Council Innovative Vacuum Services, Inc. Island County Commissioner Helen Price Johnson John Parrott, Totem Ocean Trailer Express Kent City Council Member Dennis Higgins Kirkland Mayor Amy Walen Kitsap County Commissioner Robert Gelder Lake Forest Park Deputy Mayor Catherine Stanford Lincoln County Commissioner Mark Stedman Mason County Commissioner Randy Neatherlin International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 302 Issaquah Mayor & Sound Transit Board Member Fred Butler Kenmore Mayor David Baker Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke Kitsap County Chamber of Lacey Mayor Andy Ryder Lake Stevens Mayor Vern Little Lochner Mercer Island Mayor Bruce Bassett Iron Workers District Council of the Pacific Northwest Jefferson County Commissioner Kathleen Kler Kent Area Chamber of King County Executive and Sound Transit Board Chair Dow Constantine Kitsap County Commissioner Charlotte Garrido Lake Forest Park Mayor Mary Jane Goss Lakewood Mayor Don Anderson Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring Milton Mayor Debra Perry

4 Mountlake Terrace Mayor Jerry Smith Nichols Brothers Boat Builders Northwest Marine Trade Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson Normandy Park Councilmember and South King County Area Transportation Board Member Stacia Jenkins OneRedmond Murray Pacific Corporation Northwest Building, LLC Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters Parsons Parsons Brinckerhoff Pasco Mayor Matt Watkins PCI, Performance Contracting Inc. Pierce County Council Member Derek Young PEMCO Port of Allyn Pierce County Council Member Rick Talbert Port of Chelan County Port of Clarkston Port of Everett Port of Ilwaco Port of Moses Lake Port of Quincy Port of Seattle Port of Tacoma Port of Walla Walla Port Orchard Councilmember John Clauson Professional and Technical Employees Local 17 Puyallup Mayor John Knutsen Redmond Mayor and Sound Transit Board Member John Marchione PRR Puyallup Sumner Chamber of Renton Business Development Committee Puget Sound Regional Council Recreational Boating of Washington Renton Chamber of Renton Legislative Committee Renton Mayor Denis Law Richland Mayor David W. Rose Rontra Freight, Inc. Sammamish Mayor Tom Vance Seattle Marine Business Coalition Seattle Mayor and Sound Transit Board Member Ed Murray Seattle Port Commissioner John Creighton Shoreline City Councilmember Chris Roberts Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Seattle Port Commissioner Stephanie Bowman Shoreline Deputy Mayor Chris Eggen Seattle Port Commissioner Courney Gregoire Seattle Port Commissioner Tom Albro Skamania County Commissioner Bob Hamlin

5 Committee for Improved Transportation Councilmember Stephanie Wright Council Chair Dave Somers Councilmember Terry Ryan Councilmember Brian Sullivan Executive John Lovick Public Works Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson Sound Cities Sound Transit Board Vice Chair Paul Roberts South Sound Chambers of Legislative Coalition Southwest King County Chamber of Steilacoom Mayor Ron Lucas Town of Beaux Arts Village Transpo Group Transportation Choices Tri-City Regional Chamber of Tukwila Mayor Jim Haggerton UURWAW Local 153, AFL-CIO Vigor Industrial Virginia Mason Medical Center Wahkiakum County Walla Walla County Commissioner James L. Duncan Washington Maritime Federation Walla Walla County Commission Chairman Perry L. Dozier Washington Asphalt Pavement Washington State Patrol Troopers Walla Walla County Commissioner James K. Johnson Washington Ferry Coalition Wright Runstad