How do you kill a government agency?

The West Seattle Herald reports:

Monorail officials are feeling their way in the dark as they try to find how to kill the government agency that once planned a monorail line through West Seattle.

Apparently there are no instruction books explaining the procedure for terminating the Seattle Monorail Project. Usually the work done by a doomed agency is merely transferred to another department. But after voters killed the project last fall, no monorails are being planned.

The monorail agency must be put into a condition called repose. It's a procedure so rare the agency is looking to the Washington Legislature and the attorney general to figure it out.

Monorail officials have been meeting with legislators representing Seattle as well as state Attorney General Rob McKenna to put together repose legislation in time for January's reconvening of the Legislature in Olympia. The Monorail Project will continue to exist until then.

"We need one section (in state law) to provide a method for us to go out of business," said Jonathan Buchter, executive director.

Great moments in government.