MINUTES OF THE METRO COUNCIL

TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING

Thursday, July 18, 2002

Metro Council Chamber

Members Present:  Rex Burkholder (Chair), and Rod Monroe

Members Absent:  Bill Atherton (excused)

1.  CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL. Chair Burkholder called the meeting to order at 10:08 a.m.

2.  CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS.

None.

3.  RELATED COMMITTEE UPDATES.

•  Bi-State Transportation Committee. None.

•  JPACT. None.

•  Southwest Washington RTC Board. The Board did not meet in July. The next meeting will be in August.

•  South Corridor Policy Advisory Group. The Advisory Committee will not meet until late September.

•  Transportation Task Force. This new task force, appointed by the Executive Officer, first met this week. The task force will be of brief duration and by its end in November is expected to recommend specific projects for funding, with precise funding mechanisms, and the entity responsible. It is possible that Metro may be requested to place a measure on the November ballot.

4.  CONSIDERATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE JULY 2, 2002, TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING.

5.  Resolution No. 02-3206, For the Purpose of Adopting the Policy Direction, Program Directives, Procedures and Criteria for the Priorities 2003 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP) and Allocation of Flexible Funds.

Mike Hoglund, Planning Department, said a public hearing had been planned for this legislation. The outreach efforts early on have satisfied the interested parties and electeds. All of the advisory committees have unanimously approved the proposal. The primary policy objective emphasizes centers, industrial areas and UGB areas with completed concept plans which are eligible for a 90/10 match ratio. Also, other RTP financially constrained projects that emphasize modes that do not have other sources of revenues but complete gaps in the system or help develop the multi-modal transportation system are eligible at a ratio of 70/30.

Outstanding issues listed previously are project eligibility and application of criteria, and are estimated to take about three meetings to resolve.

Chair Burkholder opened a public hearing. No one came forward. He closed the public hearing.

Councilor Monroe said it was clear to him that the Council was not interested in cutting back from 200% to 150% for each region in terms of the number of projects able to be submitted, giving the Council more latitude to select the projects that more precisely meet the 2040 criteria. He asked for the approximate start of the project submittal timeline. Mr. Hoglund said the schedule was within the resolution attachment. August 2002 – Project Solicitation; December 3/4 - Project Applications Due; Reports will be made to the December Committee meetings; January 2003 – Technical Ranking; February/March – 150% Cut List.

The next meeting of this committee will be the first week of September. Chair Burkholder urged attendees at the meeting to share the idea of federal flexible funding within the focus that this committee has utilized

6.  COMMUNICATIONS.

None.

There being no further business before the committee, the meeting was adjourned at 10:25 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Pat Mannhalter

Council Assistant

ATTACHMENTS TO THE PUBLIC RECORD FOR THE MEETING OF JULY 18, 2002

There were no submissions for inclusion in the record.

There were no testimony cards.