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Planning & Development <br />Community Development <br />MEMORANDUM <br />Date: February 26, 2004 <br />To: Mayor Torrey and City Council <br />From: Mike Sullivan, 682-5448 <br />Community Development Manager <br />Mark Schoening, 682-5243 <br />City Engineer <br />Subject: Courthouse Transportation Improvements <br />City of Eugene <br />99 W. 10`h Avenue <br />Eugene, Oregon 97401 <br />(541) 682-5443 <br />(541) 682-5572 FAX <br />www.ci.eugene.or.us <br />The City Council will be requested to act on the second supplemental budget (SB2) of fiscal year <br />2004 on March 8, 2004. There are two items in SB2 related to the Courthouse District <br />transportation improvements. The purpose of this memo is to provide additional information to <br />the City Council on these two items. <br />Planning, Engineering and Design -The 2002 United Front effort resulted in a federal earmark <br />of $500,000 in transportation and community and system preservation (TCSP) funds to initiate <br />the planning, engineering and design of the transportation improvements for the Courthouse <br />District. A prospectus has been developed and an intergovernmental agreement between the City <br />and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has been executed to use the earmarked <br />funds. TCSP funds do not require anon-federal match. <br />A consultant team has been retained through ODOT for the planning, engineering and design of <br />the transportation improvements at a cost of $960,000. In addition, the City and ODOT are <br />incurring costs related to the project. In April of this year it is anticipated that the consultant team <br />will have prepared 30 percent construction plans for all of the transportation improvements. In <br />addition, it is anticipated that the federal earmark of $500,000 will be completely expended <br />sometime in April. <br />SB2 includes an appropriation of $350,000 in Urban Renewal Agency funds to continue the <br />design of the transportation improvements through the end of the fiscal year. This will allow the <br />consultant team, and City and ODOT staff to continue working uninterrupted toward the <br />completion of the construction plans with the goal of advertising a construction contract early in <br />2005 and completing all of the improvements prior to the opening of the new courthouse early in <br />2006. In the event the 2004 United Front effort results in a $7.6 million earmark for the <br />transportation improvements, the $350,000 expended by the City will not be eligible to count as <br />Page i of 2 <br />