Item B: Funding Strategies for Transportation System Operations, Maintenance, and Preservation

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has been focused on local street improvement but is now being expanded to include property owners who may qualify along arterial and collector street improvements. The subsidy program has not been funded for several years; however, it has a limited reserve remaining for a limited number of properties that may qualify along pending projects. Estimated funding gap:$300,000 per year Street Trees and Median Maintenance The City has an active Neighborwoods program that is adding to the inventory of street trees. In addition, new development is required to plant street trees as a condition of development. Capital projects such as Ferry Street th Bridge, West 11 from Danebo to Terry Street, etc., have included landscaped medians that are adding to the City?s maintenance inventory. In FY93, the Landscapebudget was established in the Road Fund to maintain planting beds in street medians. Since that time, more than 325,000 square feet of median beds have been added to the inventory. Service demands have increased by more than 200% just for landscape maintenance. Estimated funding gap:$250,000 per year Residential and Arterial/Collector Street Lights Recently, the Council adopted a policy requiring new developmentto install residential street lights. Transportation System Development Charges (SDCs) currently fund new street lights associated with improvements to arterialand collector capital projects. At present, funding is unavailableto address the requests for lightingexisting neighborhoods, and a long list of requests exists. With the installationof street lights associated with new development, funding for electric service and ongoing maintenance is adding to the current unfunded liability. Estimated funding gap:$244,000 per year Selective Utility Undergrounding within the Right-of-Way As projects are planned, undergrounding of existing above-ground utilitiesis taken into consideration. This program is currently unfunded. The goal of the program would be to take advantage of current construction to limit costs. The cost of this program would depend on the size of the projects and the number of utilities involved. Estimated funding gap:$200,000 per year Nodal Development Planning for nodal development is currently funded through the Road Fund for the transportation-related elements. This service has an inadequate budget with approximately $90,000 in staff time spent on this activity. The amount needs to be increased to provide for anticipated planning. Estimated funding gap:$130,000 per year Transportation Marketing and Education The alternative mode program is dependent on informed citizens and requires adequate funding for educating the communityabout options to automobile transportation. Marketing different modes of transportation is critical to getting people out of their cars and it lacks sufficient funding. The City needs a modest, on-going budget for this type of outreach. Estimated funding gap:$75,000 per year Other Transportation System Needs Other items that need to be considered include system enhancement programs such as photo radar, photo red light and traffic signal interconnection. Additional evaluation will have to be completed on these elements to cover not only the capitalcost of installation, but also the on-going costs of maintenance and enforcement. Estimated funding gaps:$57,000 per year for photo radar Amounts to be determined for photo red light and traffic signal interconnection B2