Ordinance 2021-94 - Laserfiche WebLink

Implementation Strategy Maintenance, Operations and Administration About $217 million or 30% of planned expenditures for the proposed multi jurisdictional transportation investment program in the Planning Area will be for the maintenance, operations and administration of the system. This share does not include County, Community Transit or State maintenance programs within the Everett Planning Area — which would increase the overall share significantly above 30%. The maintenance, operations and administration programs for the City of Everett will represent nearly 75%of its expenditures. This estimate includes the City's transit operation. Maintenance of the existing system is critical to the success of the Comprehensive Plan. The Plan calls for significant increases in jobs and in housing within the Planning Area. However, the basic network that will be used to accommodate travel is largely in place today and it must be maintained in a safe and usable state. This existing network will be improved in its ability to move people and goods more efficiently, but few significant changes in its overall pattern, physical dimensions or lane capacity is proposed. Except for local access routes added to service new developments, the network of today will be the network of the future. It will carry much higher volumes of traffic, which contributes to increasing maintenance requirements. The commitment to maintenance considers the effect of increased traffic on costs. Capital Investments and Transportation Programs Introduction The City proposes a1-$746 million transportation investment program for the Planning Area. Of this amount, the City is responsible for about S-2-7-5 $300 million or about 3-8-%40%of the cost. Some $140 million is expected from the Regional Transit Authority based upon a 4 tenths sales tax voted in 1995 and renewed by voters in 2005. This transit fund represents nearly 20%of all transportation revenues for the planning period. State, Federal, County and other local jurisdictions account for the remaining 42%40%of system revenues. An additional $140 million in projects (beyond the $721 $746 million funded program) have been deferred until after 2012 because of insufficient revenues but will continue to be listed in the Plan. Since these deferred projects will not have funding commitments, they will not be subject to concurrency tests. However, some of these projects could be constructed during the planning period if additional resources become available. In some cases they may also substitute for projects that are planned but for unforeseen reasons cannot be put into place. The lists of projects and programs in the following tables are conceptual in nature. Most of the projects listed have been identified in previous studies and plans that have been prepared over the past decade. Cost estimates have been prepared for many of these projects by other agencies but few of them have undergone extensive evaluation for environmental impacts, design issues and the typical discovery of unforeseen conditions or I 9 2 T-30