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Street Light & Signal Locates ($79,000) - This service responds to utility locates requests for capital and private construction or repair activities in the vicinity of street light and traffic signal conduit and traffic signal loops. Overall this service includes locates for storm and wastewater facilities. Reduction in the total FTE devoted to locates will reduce the timeliness of our response to locate requests. If street light and traffic signal locates are not completed in time it could result in increased damage to the City’s underground facilities, increased costs to repair those facilities damaged and possibility for electrical hazard to third parties if City facilities are broken. The City is also liable for potential civil penalties if, under state rules, adequate locates are not performed in a timely manner. Infrastructure Planning ($75,000) - Engineering staff provide planning assistance to answer questions and provide information regarding the existing street system and future street needs and proposed projects to the public, City Council, utilities and to other divisions. An example of infrastructure planning work is developing projects for the Six- Year CIP, preparing cost estimates for grant applications, participating in the West Eugene Collaborative, and evaluating transportation needs for hospital siting. Engineering support for all infrastructure planning would be reduced. In order for staff to support efforts such as the evaluation of the transportation needs for different hospital sites or mixed used areas, new earmarked funding would need to be provided. Long-Range Transportation Planning ($57,000) - Engineering staff participate in regional transportation planning through the Metropolitan Planning Organization. This includes participation on the Technical Advisory Subcommittee and Transportation Planning Committee and support to the Metropolitan Policy Committee. Engineering staff also support other departments in planning studies, such as the Courthouse District Concept Plan, Downtown Plan and River Road/Santa Clara Transition Project. Long-range transportation planning would be limited to participation in regional transportation planning activities. Support for other long-range planning would require a specific funding earmark. Land Use/Development Review ($54,000) - Engineering Division staff coordinate the review of development applications with respect to the transportation system, providing information and feedback to the development project teams, the public, and the Planning Department regarding city policies relating to dedications and construction of street improvements. Staff review projects impact to the existing transportation systems and their compliance to adopted plans and design standards. The program would lose substantial capacity to provide timely and comprehensive review comments on development applications, resulting in short and long-term impacts to the transportation system without any mitigation by the development applicants. Neighborhood Transportation Program (35,000) - This service would experience a reduced ability to take and evaluate neighborhood traffic issues, such as traffic calming or other system-wide approaches, for possible mitigation. The neighborhood transportation program would see a reduced level of service. Staff would still receive requests, but would be limited in the ability to conduct field investigations or technical analyses. Staff time for the development of traffic calming projects would be paid from capital funds, reducing the overall amount of capital funds available for the construction of traffic calming projects.