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EUGENE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Work Session: FY2005-2007 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program Project List Meeting Date: January 24, 2005 Agenda Item Number: C Department: Public Works Staff Contact: Mark Schoening www. cl. eugene, or. us Contact Telephone Number: 682-5243 ISSUE STATEMENT The City Council is requested to approve the project list in FY2005-2007 Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (MTIP). The FY2005-2007 MTIP was adopted by the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) on December 30, 2004. The project list is shown as Attachment A. The project list is annotated to reflect the changes from the FY2004-FY2006 MTIP project list to the FY2005-2007 MTIP project list. The project list is further annotated to show the previous council actions taken on City of Eugene projects. BACKGROUND Federal legislation requires that the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), in cooperation with the state and transit operators, develop an MTIP that is updated and approved at least every two years by the MPC and the Governor. Copies of the MTIP are provided to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Specific requirements for the MTIP are outlined in various implementation rules developed by FHWA, FTA, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In summary, the MTIP must cover a period of not less than three years, must include all federally funded projects and regionally significant projects, must be consistent with funding that is expected to be available during the relevant period and must be consistent with the long-range transportation plan. The FY2004-2006 MTIP was adopted by the MPC on October 9, 2003 (and was subsequently amended both by MPC and administratively by the Transportation Planning Committee (TPC)). The FY2004- 2006 MTIP listed transportation projects using federal funds programmed for fiscal years 2004-2006. The FY2004-2006 MTIP was updated with the adoption of the FY2005-2007 MTIP to be consistent with the updated Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). In addition, State regulations require that the MTIP be updated within six months of an update of the RTP. The RTP, adopted in July 2002 was updated by MPC on December 9, 2004, to meet the federal requirement to keep the RTP current with respect to the planning horizon (20 years), the MPO geography, and the financial constraint analysis. On June 9, 2004, the City Council passed a motion that all project lists or funding allocations for projects within the City of Eugene or the Eugene urban growth boundary generated through the TPC for the MPC/MPO approval shall first be reviewed and approved by the Eugene City Council before the L:\CMO\2005 Council Agendas\M050124\S050124C.doc