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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Public Works/Planning - 07/21/1993 r PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE JULY 21, 1993 PRESENT: JIM WHITE KEVIN LINDELL JON JOHNSON DICK GILLISSEE DON WICKSTROM MR & MRS RUST TONY McCARTHY BRUCE RAYBURN GARY GILL MR & MRS SCALZO TOM BRUBAKER ABSENT: COMMITTEE MEMBER PAUL MANN City of SeaTac Request for Sewers Bruce Rayburn stated that he had submitted a letter to Don Wickstrom requesting that sanitary sewers be constructed in the City of SeaTac, as well as some area of unincorporated King County lying between Military Road and the western boundary of Kent. Rayburn indicated that approximately two years ago, the same type of proposal was brought before this committee and then on to the Planning Committee who had previously denied this request. Rayburn displayed a wall chart showing a schematic of sewers within the city limits of SeaTac only, with the intention that they be accommodated by the existing Metro system which ends at the river. Rayburn said, to get to that point from Orillia Rd. we will still keep a proposed pump station which would then make this a force line. Rayburn said that a major concern is the matter of land use, in terms of how this property is developed. Rayburn stated that SeaTac is starting their Utility Comp Plan and it will address sanitary sewers, water and storm drains. Brubaker stated that Kent does have a moratorium. White asked if the moratorium extends to another city? Brubaker said he wasn't sure, however we do have exemptions for non-profit organizations. Wickstrom stated that this would be SeaTac's sewer utility not Kent' s. He further said that SeaTac is essentially looking for permission to run a force main into our right of way. Wickstrom said it would be SeaTac, not Kent, extending sewer. White said he would not be comfortable with Kent extending sewers west of the river. White further stated that he has no problem with the City of SeaTac connecting to a Metro sewer on the east side of the river. White said they would be serving their city (SeaTac) and we should not block service. Brubaker said that he doesn't really feel that land use is an issue. He said that the last time this topic came forth, 1 ` c controlling the land use designation in SeaTac was discussed with respect to high density apartments in that area. Brubaker said it was previously discussed that we cannot contract away the rights of the SeaTac City Council. Brubaker said that possibly we could, as a contractural condition of extending service, not try to control the land use designation but control amount of flow or amount of residences to be served. He said it would then be incumbent on the city of SeaTac. White said that he is not sure whether we have the right to tell another city what they do with their land use. He further said that citizens in that city are paying for Metro in one way or another so he questions why we are blocking them. Johnson asked if we could grant a sewer extension and limit the size of the capacity of the line. Wickstrom again stated that it would be SeaTac's sewer and their force main, but would be in our public right of way. Committee directed staff to address the problem and come back to the Committee with a workable recommendation. Mar-Del Investment Street Vacation Wickstrom said that this is a petition to vacate a piece of property and as such requires a public hearing. He requested that the hearing date be set for September 7th. Committee unanimously recommended setting the public hearing for September 7th. T.I.P. - Presentation of Projects Referring to the 194 through 199 project listing, Wickstrom said that we did make a lot of changes in the first year, indicating on a wall map which of the projects that had been rearranged. In response to White's question on the time-line on the Reith Rd. & Meeker St. widening project, Wickstrom said we have a proposal with the state and are waiting for them to buy off on our proposal. Wickstrom explained that one of the additions made to the first year's program was changing Canyon Drive to a Pedestrian and Bike Lane project thinking we would probably get a better chance for a grant. However, now the Federal money has been dictated and we are not getting any money for that project. White asked Wickstrom if a traffic signal at Russell Rd. & Meeker St. "fits in" with this category of projects. Wickstrom stated that it will be in one of our six year T.I.P.s. Wickstrom said that we will have to do some adjusting in order to move our 212th St. project up. He said we have submitted for a grant application and it looks like we will get some money. In response to White's question on grade separation, Wickstrom said we put that in the list to get some interest from it. He said that 2 s there is $1 billion dollars of federal money around and only five systems in the U.S. that it can be spent on. White asked if the Regional Transit Authority is going to have input on that. Wickstrom said he thinks it would go for grade separations and its improving the rail for high speed trains running from Eugene, Oregon to Vancouver B.C. Wickstrom said they want to get it above 125 mph and to do this they need grade separations. Wickstrom said that knowing the money is out there and also we may not see it in six years, we need to let people know we need some. In response to White's question on S. 256th between 104th & 116th, Wickstrom said that the County has received a grant and we are waiting for them to make the improvement. Then we will be in a better position to get a grant from TIB to fund it. Commute Trip Reduction Program for City Employees Gillissee explained that being a major employer of over 100 people, we have to follow our own ordinance. He said that 90% of our employees drive alone to work and we have to reduce that down to 72% by 1995. In so doing, we need to provide some form of encouragement and formal program in which we can effectively change the way employees commute. Gillissee has put together a suggested program of nine steps to be implemented. In response to White's question on the monthly bus pass reimbursement, Gillissee said that several companies are starting out their programs with 1/2 the cost . of monthly bus pass reimbursement rather than full reimbursement. Regarding the adoption of the compressed work-week schedule, Gillissee stated that nine 80 's have been suggested, rather than four 101s. McCarthy said that if we go ahead with the compressed work-week, he wants the schedules staggered so that no more than 25% of the people in any one department would take any one day off. Gillissee said that his prepared plan indicates that State funding provided for CTR, will provide resources needed to carry the program through June 1994 . He said that this is really June of ' 93 . He said the first two years the funds received from the State were a grant that could be used by the City for anything having to do with CTR. However, starting in July of this year, it is no longer a grant fund; it is an appropriation and part of the provision of that is that it cannot be used by the City to fund the program for their own employees specifically. Committee unanimously approved the CTR Program. High Capacity Transportation Grant Wickstrom said that essentially this is establishing a budget for a grant we have received in the amount of $37 , 000. Wickstrom said the total project is $46,250 and we need authorization to establish 3 o the budget for same. Committee unanimously agreed to establish project budget and authorize the Mayor to sign the agreement. North 4th Avenue Street Rebuild- - Bid Wickstrom stated that this is a project where we are re-overlaying 4th Ave. , north of 228th using our ISTEA allocation for our overlay money. He said that it will be bidding on August 3rd, the day of the Council meeting and we would like to award it that same evening, if the bids are within budget. Committee unanimously agreed to place the North 4th Ave St Rebuild project on the August 3rd Council agenda and to award the contract if the bids are within budget. 196th St Corridor Bridge Over Mill Creek Wickstrom explained that this is the bridge that goes into Western Processing and in our subsequent work with PRPs we had the bridge tested and the only thing it can support is pedestrian traffic. He said that the bridge is on the 196th St right of way crossing Mill Creek. He said if the bridge is torn down, access to Western Processing will be off 72nd Ave. Wickstrom said we want to demolish it and Western Processing will take care of the cleanup. Committee unanimously agreed to the emergency demolition of the bridge over Mill Creek. Central Ave & Pioneer St Pedestrian Signal Wickstrom stated that this is a signal pedestrian project on Central & Pioneer by the Jr. High School, for which we were able to get a grant in the amount of $27, 000. Wickstrom requested authorization for the signing of the agreement and establishing the budget for same. He stated that matching funds would come from the James St Pedestrian Improvement. Committee unanimously recommended authorization for signing the agreement and establishing the budget for same. In response to White, Lindell said the time-line on this would be shortly after school begins. Downtown Infrastructure Update No comments on this item. Royal Woods Manor - Bill of Sale Committee unanimously agreed to approve the bill of sale. 4 Grant Funding Wickstrom said we have been offered a T. I.B grant for approximately $2 . 9 million and the project is approximately $3 . 6 million for putting in HOV, sidewalks and street lighting along S. 212th, West Valley Highway to SR 167 . He said that at this point we would like to fund it and we have money budgeted along that route including a small proposed L. I.D. and there is some money in the C. I.P for the James St. and Central Ave. intersection improvement for 1994, which we would like to transfer to this project because we have the grant. Wickstrom said that in subsequent years, we would budget for Central & James. In response to White regarding the concerns of the Bicycle Advisory Committee, Wickstrom said that's an issue we will need to address. He said this will put sidewalks and street lights in there plus widening with the reconstruction of the pavement. He said a bike lane was considered there but that may be a function of how big we can push the LID to. White would like to see this done. Wickstrom said right now he is primarily concerned with getting the grant thru. Committee unanimously agreed to reallocate the $350, 000 denoted in the James & Central intersection project. 5