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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Public Works/Planning - 11/03/1988 Uak PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE SPECIAL BUDGET PRESENTATION NOVEMBER 3, 1988 PRESENT: Jon Johnson Brent McFall Judy Woods Jim Hansen Berne Biteman Tony McCarthy Don Wickstrom May Miller Gary Gill John Marchione Tim Heydon Bonnie Fell Brent McFall opened the presentation stating that the General Fund portion of the Public Works Department Budget was up approximately $401,000 representing a 17% increase over the 1988 budget. This budget includes $250, 000 in the Street Department to continue the City's street overlay program, 2 new positions, consulting fees for update of the comprehensive transportation plan and a 60% increase in the drainage charges(primarily effecting the street department) . The two new positions include a Maintenance Worker for the Street Department and an Engineer II for the Contruction Division. The meeting was opened to discussion and Councilmember Biteman voiced concerns about the potential traffic impact of several new developments just outside the eartern City boundary. Wickstrom noted that the Public Works Transportation Department was aware of the developments just outside of the city limits and many were being addressed through Mitigation agreements as developments occur. Additional corridors being develgped would help reduce the traffic congestion, however, traffic volumes will have increased so much by the time the corridors are complete, that the corridors will not be adequate to handle the volumes of traffic at that time. Councilmember Biteman suggested further intersection improvements be made in addition to those already improved to aid in the traffic problem. Wickstrom noted that almost all major intersections have already been improved or are in developing stages to include additional turn lanes, etc. "TSM", Transportation System Management measures are now the only other solutions available to resolve our problem of rapidly increasing traffic volumes. Examples of TSM would include carpools, vanpools and "flextime", etc. Councilmember Biteman inquired into $121,113 increase in the Design budget. This increase included a $22,689. increase in salaries($5,000 additional overtime) , $6,046 increase in benefits, $76,599 inc#ease in allocation of information services for computerized mapping, $6,500 for microfilming of as builts, $6,484 for miscellaneous charges associated with the annex area and $2,795 of miscellaneous increased expenses. The utility budgets were also presented, highlighting majors changes, such as capital outlays and equipment rental rate adjustents reflecting the financial analysis recently completed. It was noted that all departments within the city were effected by the rate changes. The addition of 2 new employees in the utilities divisions was also noted as being included in the utility budgets. The issue of a rate increase for the Arainage utility was discussed and will be presented to the council for further review when some formal rate analysis has been completed. A 5.7% pass along increase from Metro was also discussed, as well as the Capital Improvement program as outlined in the preliminary budget document. In closing Councilmember Woods moved that the budget be adopted as presented and Councilmember Johnson seconded the motion.