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<br />City Council Study Session - 01/24/05 <br />Minutes - Page 11 <br /> <br />infrastructure funding originally implemented to maintain <br />the PMP and negate the need to levy for major maintenance <br />by predicting future needs and to determine earnings <br />needed. <br /> <br />Further discussion included use of recycled materials when <br />appropriate; increased maintenance costs due to <br />reconstruction of a majority of the City's streets from the <br />mid-1980's through the mid-1990's; MSA streets; <br />expansion of the metropolitan area to more outer ring <br />suburbs without MSA mileage increased funding; and a <br />comparison between 2001 and 2005 for MSA funding <br />remaining stagnant at approximately $960,000 spread <br />between maintenance and construction with no increased <br />funding for new construction projects. <br /> <br />Mr. Schwartz reviewed short and long-term projected <br />construction needs, including County Road B-2 and the <br />Twin Lakes Parkway, and estimated funding availability; <br />federal grant opportunities and potential gap strategies for <br />MSA projects, the funding that hasn't been increased since <br />1988, to support the County's submittals to reduce city cost <br />participation for regional projects and corridor expansions. <br /> <br />Further discussion included: land use impacts; cost <br />participation in county projects (i.e., for curb and gutter, <br />trails and/or sidewalks, lighting and streetscapes and <br />signalization); local match requirements for grant funds; <br />planning tools required; existing traffic forecast <br />information that was developed in 1992, using 1990 traffic <br />data and incorporated in the City's Comprehensive Plan <br />language; and the need to update those forecasts, including <br />system-wide intersection analyses and a more in-depth <br />study than just major roads. Mr. Schwartz noted that some <br />of the forecasts used in that original study for the year 2010 <br />had already been exceeded in 2001 due to continued <br />growth. <br /> <br />Mr. Schwartz proposed that the City Council consider <br />directing staff to prepare a proposal for Council <br />consideration that would enable the City to develop a city- <br />