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ii The International City and County Management Association (ICMA) is conducting a performance measurement project to accumulate such data, however, the early results don't provide the answer. Eugene is a participant in that project and therefore has access to the data for future comparisons as it improves. ~ The cities chosen for comparison are show in the chart below. ti e ~,a c~ Population` 140,366 143,560 131,127 96,727 118,652 '126,638 Area in Sq. Mi. 42 65 24 25 47 47 Road Miles 484 550 300 290 403 ' 560 Median Famiiylncome $34,153 $26,927 $53,081 $46;208 $37,491 $31,282 i j Different service levels r The comparison cities have roughly equivalent service levels in many areas. Notable exceptions are urban forestry, sidewalk maintenance and street sweeping. None of the cities except Eugene includes their urban forestry program in the transportation budget. Vancouver, Fort Collins and Boulder don't have a regular program of tree maintenance for trees in the right of way. None of the cities except Eugene carries a full time crew for sidewalk and concrete repair. All of them except Vancouver have someone assigned, however, to inspect sidewalks and issue repair notices to property owners. All of the cities budget for street sweeping in the transportation budget while Vancouver ` only shows half the amount with the other half charged to the storm drainage utility. The whole amount for street sweeping is charged to the Storm utility in Eugene. It should be noted that Vancouver also pays the storm drainage utility about $605,000 per year in utility fees for impervious roadway surfaces. Transportation engineering budgets vary greatly depending on local conditions. Travel Demand management efforts are extremely important in cities like Boulder. Vancouver's growth management efforts take up a significant amount of time. Eugene spends a fair amount of time in all categories of transportation engineering. 9 _ - _