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An affected employer is required to make a good faith effort as defined in RCW 70.94.534(2) and this chapter, to develop and implement a CTR program that will encourage its employees to reduce VMT per employee and drive alone commute trips. The CTR program must include the mandatory elements described below.

(1) Mandatory Program Elements. Each employer's CTR program shall include the following mandatory elements:

(A) Employee Transportation Coordinator (ETC). The employer shall designate an employee transportation coordinator (ETC) to administer the CTR program. The ETC and/or designee's name, location, and telephone number must be prominently displayed physically or electronically at each affected work site. The ETC shall oversee all elements of the employer's CTR program and act as liaison between the employer and the city of Selah. The objective is to have an effective transportation coordinator presence at each work site; an affected employer with multiple sites may have one ETC for all sites.

(B) Information Distribution. Information about alternatives to drive alone commuting as well as a summary of the employer's CTR program shall be provided to employees at least once a year and to new employees at the time of hire, the summary of the employer's CTR program shall also be submitted to the city of Selah with the employer's program description and regular report.

(2) Additional Program Elements. In addition to the specific program elements described above, the employer's CTR program shall include additional elements needed to meet CTR goals. Elements may include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:

(A) Provision of preferential parking or reduced parking charges, or both, for high-occupancy vehicles;

(B) Reduced parking charges for high-occupancy vehicles;

(C) Instituting or increasing parking charges for drive alone commuters;

(D) Provision of commuter ride matching services to facilitate employee ride-sharing for commute trips;

(E) Provision of subsidies for rail, transit, or vanpool fares and/or transit passes;

(F) Provision of vans or buses for employee ridesharing;

(G) Provision of subsidies for carpools, walking, bicycling, teleworking, or compressed schedules;

(H) Provision of incentives for employees that do not drive alone to work;

(I) Permitting the use of the employer's vehicles for carpooling or vanpooling;

(J) Permitting flexible work schedules to facilitate employees' use of transit, carpools, or vanpools;

(K) Cooperation with transportation providers to provide additional regular or express service to the work site;

(L) Construction of special loading and unloading facilities for transit, carpool, and vanpool users;

(M) Provision of bicycle parking facilities, lockers, changing areas, and showers for employees who bicycle or walk to work;

(N) Provision of a program of parking incentives such as a rebate for employees who do not use the parking facilities;

(O) Establishment of a program to permit employees to work part- or full-time at home or at an alternative work site closer to their homes which reduces commute trips;

(P) Establishment of a program of alternative work schedules such as a compressed work week which reduce commute trips;

(Q) Implementation of other measures designed to facilitate the use of high-occupancy vehicles, such as on-site day care facilities and emergency taxi services, or guaranteed ride home programs;

(R) Charging employees for parking, and/or the elimination of free parking; and

(S) Other measures that the employer believes will reduce the number and length of commute trips made to the site.

(3) CTR Program Report and Description. Affected employers shall review their program and file a regular progress report with the city of Selah in accordance with the format provided by the city of Selah.

The CTR program report and description outlines the strategies to be undertaken by an employer to achieve the commute trip reduction goals for the reporting period. Employers are encouraged to consider innovative strategies and combine program elements in a manner that will best suit their location, site characteristics, business type, and employees' commuting needs. Employers are further encouraged to cooperate with each other to programs elements.

At a minimum, the employer's CTR program report and description must include:

(A) A general description of the employment site location, transportation characteristics, employee parking availability, on-site amenities, and surrounding services;

(B) The number of employees affected by the CTR program and the total number of employees at the site;

(C) Documentation of compliance with the mandatory CTR program elements (as described in subsection (1) of this section;

(D) Description of any additional elements included in the employer's CTR program (as described in subsection (2) of this section);

(E) A statement of organizational commitment to provide appropriate resources to the program to meet the employer's established goals.

(4) Biennial Measure of Employee Commute Behavior. In addition to the baseline measurement, employers shall conduct a program evaluation as a means of determining worksite progress toward meeting CTR goals. As part of the program evaluation, the employer shall distribute and collect commute trip reduction program employee questionnaires (surveys) at least once every two years, and strive to achieve at least a seventy percent response rate from employees at the worksite. (Ord. 1717, § 6, 2008.)