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e Jim Farah, Planner, said a recommendation would be made to the Metropolitan Area Transportation Committee on April 13 that they act in a coordinating role to meld different jurisdictional opinions together. He figures that will take a month to accomplish. Council in the meantime could recommend to the Transportation Committee what its position is. Mayor Keller noted that Jim Bernhard of the Planning Commission has advised that a Planning Commission member will be present at all meetings of the Council regarding T-2000. Mr. Bernhard reiterated that, in view of the time element~ it might be a better way to handle questions that Council might have. / e Ollie Snowden, Transportation Coordinator for L-COG, said that the Trans- portation Committee considered alternatives suggested by the Community Meet group. He felt that it was a sufficient basis for judgments that were made by the Transportation Planning Committee. He said a good many of the projects had already been studied by the Transportation Planning Committee and were not recommended for the final plan. The technical report discusses the reasons why not. Mr. Obie felt it was necessary to determine the validity of the basis on which the plan was prepared regardless of what positions have been taken in the past. He does not feel the plan can be adopted if 15 percent transportation alternatives cannot be realized. He also noted that the second issue would be the Level of Service E. He wonders if the community will accept that. Mr. Farah responded that he does not believe this city is saying it will reach 15 percent by the year 2000 but rather than it is a goal, that the City is aiming at a major increase in transit ridership. Second, the plan is predicated on a five-year update with an intensive monitoring system. Therefore, the plan could be changed in five years without invalidating what is suggested for immediate implementation. Regarding Level of Service E, he said that the staff's response to the Planning Commission was that, if the Commission was concerned about the higher level of service, it could be addressed by changing the phasing of particular projects, specifically areas such as the Ferry Street Bridge. Mr. Lieuallen moved, and it was seconded, to request staff to do a program model and request the State transportation people to supply information on how long it might take and ask if they can do it fairly soon. Gary Spivak, Data Processing, said they tried to pick out what seemed to work on the computer models. He said they feel it is a reasonable and efficient system and needs to be tested as a whole. Mr. Williams said he doesn't see any reason not to ask staff to run the data. He thinks the Plan is a bad plan that won't work, but he doesn't see there is much choice and hopefully, by the time of the five-year update, maybe the data can be changed. Because of concern by some Council members regarding the issue of timing, Ollie Snowden of L-COG said that July 1 is not a hard and fast date. After July 1, however, without an adopted plan, . projects cannot be programmed with Federal Highway or Urban Mass Transit money. LTD is one of the agencies which would suffer from lack of funding. He said that modeling is a tool and that judgment is involved in using it. . 4/12/78--11 257