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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTrans 2016-03-21 Item 3D - SCATBd - Meeting Agenda, Minutes and 2/19/16 Letter to Dow ConstantineriOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) January 19, 2016 MEETING SUMMARY Members in Attendance Councilmember Dana Ralph (Chair) Mayor Carol Benson (Vice-Chair) Mayor Dave Hill Councilmember Bill Peloza Councilmember Debi Wagner Councilmember Dave Kaplan Deputy Mayor Jeanne Burbidge Stephanie Pure Councilmember Kathy Hougardy Councilmember Linda Johnson Elizabeth Leavitt Kelly McGourty Chelsea Levy Charles Prestrud I. Approval of December 15, 2015 SCATBd Meeting Summary The meeting summary was approved with no changes. City of Kent City of Black Diamond City of Algona City of Auburn City of Burien City of Des Moines Federal Way King County City of Tukwila City of Maple Valley Port of Seattle PSRC Sound Transit (Alternate) WSDOT (Alternate) 11. Reports Chair Ralph reported that the PSRC Transportation Policy Board passed recommendations for the regional grant project selection process and recommended funding amounts for the rural and preservation set-asides. Mayor Hill reported that the RTC will be having workshops for its members on Metro's Service Guidelines, Long-range Plan, and King County's Strategic Climate Action Plan. Chair Ralph also reported that the 2016 SCATBd Legislative Message pamphlets are printed and available at the meeting for members to take. 111. Budget Discussion: Chair Ralph stated that at the December meeting, there was a request for discussion in January about how revenue from the October 2015 Advanced Transportation Technology will be reserved for future use. A copy of the consultant's (CATES) financial report from the conference is included with the agenda. The financial report indicates that $10,525.69 is being held by the consultant jointly for ETP, SCATBd, and SeaShore, for a future conference. At ETD's January 8 meeting, they requested the consultant return the $10,525.69, and have King County, the financial administrator for ETP, SCATBd, and SeaShore, hold this money in trust for future joint ventures. In addition, SCATBd has approximately $7,000 in its account, and should collect about $1,500 more after all 2016 dues are collected. In response to comments, members approved a motion to return SCATBd's proportional share of funds being held by the consultant to SCATBd. Comments: • Hill — Concerned about jointly sharing funds with the other boards, and recommended SCATBd asking for its proportional share back. • Hougardy — Requested a budget discussion of SCATBd's finances at the February meeting. • Prestrud — WSDOT was also a contributor to the conference, but does not expect any funding back. He believes that any leftover funding is intended only for use be ETP, SCATBd, and SeaShore. 42 IV. City of Kent 228th Grade Separation Project Update: 8th Chad Bieren, Kent City Engineer, gave a presentation on Kent's 228th Separation Project. South 228th is an East-West corridor that will connect SR 167 to 1-5 and the future SR 509 extension. The project is approximately $80 million with local and partner financial investments. The project includes three phases, with Phase One, the South 228th Street West Leg, and the Phase Two, Burlington Northern Railroad Grade Separation, complete—Phase Three, the Union Pacific Grade Separation is currently underway. Vice-Chair Benson said that they will be looking to have cities present on local projects throughout the year, and asked members to think about projects in their cities that could be presented to SCATBd. V. Public Comment and Good of the Order: There was no public comment. Chair Ralph asked members if there are any topics that should be considered for SCATBd's 2016 work plan. Members made the following suggestions: • Port of Seattle Airport Master Plan update • 1-405 ETL update • Legislator visit/discussion King County Metro Long-range Plan update • King County Roads Service's Bridges and Roads Task Force update • SR -167 financial projections • WSDOT Gateway Project update • Maple Valley SR 169 connection and multi-city coordination update • Sound Transit's ST3 package, environmental reviews, projects details, and relationship with Metro's Long-range Plan development. • PSRC Parking study and analysis Councilmember Peloza let members know that Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus was appointed to the Sound Transit board. Other Attendees: Lacey Jane Wolf, Kent Katie Kuciemba, SCA Golden, WSDOT Wes Edwards, KCDOT -Mike Perez, Federal Way Florendo Cabudol, SeaTac -Rick Andrews, Burien Tamie Deedey, Black Diamond -Maiya Andy Williamson, Black Diamond Don Vondran, Covington -Tommy Owen, Des Moines 2 43 SOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:00 — 11:00 a.m. SeaTac City Hall 4800 South 188th Street SeaTac 1. Open Meeting Action 9:00 a.m. • Breakfast provided by City of Normandy Park • Introductions • Approve January 19, 2016 SCATBd Meeting Summary 2. Reports and Communications Reports and 9:05 a.m. • Chair and Vice Chair Discussion • Participant Updates from RTC and Other Regional Committees 3. What the FAST Act means for Local Jurisdictions Reports and 9:20 a.m. Emiko Atherton, Director, National Complete Streets Coalition Discussion Chris Rall, Pacific Northwest Field Organizer, T4America 4. Sumner/Pacific Manufacturing and Growth Center Expansion Reports and 9:45 a.m. Ryan Windish, Sumner Interim Community Development Director Discussion 5. Consideration of ST3 Candidate Projects comment letter Discussion 10:10 a.m. and Potential Action 6. SCATBd Financial Report Reports and 10:30 a.m. Wes Edwards, King County 1 Discussion 7. • Public Comment 10:40 a.m. • For the Good of the Order • Next SCATBd Meeting: March 15, 2016 • March Meeting Breakfast — City of Pacific M1 SOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd) February 16, 2016 MEETING SUMMARY Members in Attendance Councilmember Dana Ralph (Chair) - Kent Jim Morgan — Pacific Mayor Carol Benson (Vice-Chair) — Black Diamond Councilmember Peter Kwon - SeaTac Councilmember Dawn Dofelmire — Algona Councilmember Kathy Hougardy - Tukwila Councilmember Bill Peloza - Auburn Councilmember Linda Johnson - Maple Valley Councilmember Debi Wagner - Burien Elizabeth Leavitt - Port of Seattle Councilmember Dave Kaplan — Des Moines Commissioner Don Meyer — Port of Tacoma Deputy Mayor Jeanne Burbidge - Federal Way Chelsea Levy — Sound Transit Chris Arkills - King County Charles Prestrud - WSDOT Mark Hoppen — Normandy Park I. Approval of January 19, 2016 SCATBd Meeting Summary The meeting summary was approved with no changes. 11. Reports Chair Ralph reported that the RTC will be hearing about Metro's Strategic Guidelines and Long Range Plan updates in the coming months. Also, additional copies of SCATl3d's legislative agenda brochure are still available. Please let Wes Edwards know if you would like copies. 111. What the Fast Act Means for Local Jurisdictions: Emiko Atherton, National Complete Streets Coalition Director, and Chris Rall, T4America's Pacific Northwest Field Organizer, provided an update on the recently passed federal surface transportation program. The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act was passed on December 3, 2015. It is a $305 billion, five-year authorization for the federal surface transportation program, passenger rail program, and adds new highway freight funding programs. This bill will split $225 billion to highway programs, and $61 billion to transit programs. The FAST Act increases local funding provided to metropolitan areas, but the popular TIGER grant programs were not authorized. The new freight programs begin with $1.95 billion nationally in 2016, rising to $2.5 billion in 2020. Allotment of freight formula funds are based on highway formulas, not freight or tonnage movement in states. Transit formula grants will include $9.3 billion in 2016, increasing to $10.2 billion in 2020. The program also includes transit investment grants at $2.3 billion per year from 2016 through 2020. The program also includes additional formula and grant funding for buses and bus facilities. • Ralph —The Governor is considering increasing the distribution formula for local jurisdictions to receive federal funding that is distributed by the state. He will review the allocation with a variety of local and state agency officials, and elected officials. IV. Sumner/Pacific Manufacturing and Growth Center Expansion: Ryan Windish, Sumner Interim Community Development Director, presented on the Sumner and Pacific Proposal for a new PSRC designated Manufacturing and Industrial Center (MIC). The proposed MIC would cover 2,100 acres, include 12 million square feet of industrial space and 10,000 existing jobs, and would provide growth for 10,000 more jobs. The process to designate this area a MIC began in 2010 with designation planned to occur in early 2016. After the MIC is designated, Sumner and Pacific have committed to a subarea planning process as part of the PSRC approval, which will look to further address concerns regarding transportation, open space, and environmental impacts. Most of the transportation projects that will support the MIC are complete, however the SR 167 improvements that will be completed as part of WSDOT's Gateway Program will provide significant transportation improvements in the area. 45 V. Consideration of ST3 Candidate Projects Comment Letter: Chair Ralph asked members to look at the draft letter to Sound Transit that was provided in the meeting materials. As Sound Transit is refining the candidate projects that will be proposed in a final ST3 package, SCATBd should add their support for South King County projects by sending the drafted letter. Councilmember Peloza reported that Sound Transit is returning funding to the Auburn and Kent garage projects as part of the ST2 program to continue with their design, after funding was reduced for these projects during the recession. Councilmember Hougardy asked that the Boeing Access Road infill light rail station be added to the letter. Due to the timing, Chair Ralph asked if SCATBd members would tentatively approve the draft letter to Sound Transit, and allow staff to make the suggested changes after the meeting in order to send it as soon as possible. ACTION: SCATBd approved sending a letter to Sound Transit recommending South King County projects to be included in an ST3 package. VI. SCATBd Financial Report: Wes Edwards provided a copy of SCATBd financial balance sheet as of February 2016. SCATBd had about $8,500 in its account, and most member cities had paid their 2016 dues, Currently, there are no financial policies that SCATBd has created to guide how they expend funds. Members suggested that SCATBd should develop rules or policies, and staff suggested that the SCATBd Operating Procedures could be amended at any time to include financial policies. Councilmember Hougardy expressed concern about how SCATBd's funding was spent in 2015 on the Advanced Technology Conference held by CATES, but recognized that is too late to revisit the terms of that agreement as no contract was in place. Councilmember Hougardy, Peloza, and Kaplan offered to form a committee to propose financial policies for SCATBd to consider. Mayor Bernie Talmas of Woodinville also spoke to SCATBd members regarding CATES planned use of funding that was left over from the conference in 2015. He said CATES was anticipating that if the conference in 2015 was successful, they would use the remaining funds as seed money for future events. This allowed them to keep their fees low in 2015, by anticipating potential future work. VII. Public Comment and Good of the Order: There was no public comment. Lacey Jane Wolf, Kent Katie Kuciemba, SCA Mike Golden, WSDOT Wes Edwards, KCDOT Rick Perez, Federal Way William Appleton, SeaTac Maiya Andrews, Burien Tamie Deedey, Black Diamond Andy Williamson, Black Diamond Joe Welsh, Auburn Andrew Merges, Des Moines Louis Strander 2 46 1. Open Meeting • Breakfast provided by City of Pacific • Introductions Action 9:00 a.m. • Approve February 16, 2016 SCATBd Meeting Summary 2. Reports and Communications • Chair or Vice Chair Report and 9:05 a.m. • Participant Updates from RTC and Other Regional Discussion Committees 3. Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program Update Report and Brian Nielsen, WSDOT Deputy Program Administrator Discussion 9:15 a.m. 4. SCATBd Recommendation for PSRC Regional Projects Report and Cities' Staff Action 9:50 a.m. 5. King County Bridges and Roads Task Force Report and Task Force Member and King County Roads Services Discussion 10:30 a.m. 6. • Public Comment • For the Good of the Order 10:55 a.m. • Next SCATBd Meeting: April 19, 2015 • April Meeting Breakfast — City of Renton 47 r A South County Area Transportation Board MS: KSC-TR-0814 201 South Jackson Street Seattle, WA 98104-3856 Phone: (206) 477 -3812 Fax: (206) 684-2111 February 19, 2016 Sound Transit The Honorable Dow Constantine, Chair, & Board of Directors 401 South Jackson Street Seattle, WA 98104 The South County Area Transportation Board (SCATBd) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Sound Transit 3 (ST3) candidate projects. SCATBd's 15 cities in King County collaborate to improve the regional transportation systems that support the State's economy. Greater connectedness in the South County region benefits all SCATBd jurisdictions and the 720,000 people who live here. Our highway systems are overburdened. Many of our commuter trains and buses are full. More transit investments will take single-occupant vehicles off the road during the most congested hours. Furthermore, transit reduces air pollution and promotes more walkable and bike- friendly communities, thereby providing public health benefits to all ages of the population. We are confident that the South King County Subarea of the Sound Transit district can generate revenue within the district to accomplish the proposed investments below needed to improve regional transit connections. South County's participation in the region's economic recovery has already allowed Sound Transit to restore several projects from Sound Transit 2, including the Auburn and Kent Sounder Station Access projects. We urge Sound Transit to completely fulfill the promises of Sound Transit 2. With ST3 funding, the following projects can be completed closer to the time frame that voters intended: • S-01 Kent/Des Moines to Star Lake Link light rail extension • 5 -06 Expand Sounder South Train Platforms to 8 Cars To make the most of the Sound Transit 2 investments already completed, the following projects should also be included in the ST3 package: Algona • Auburn • Black Diamond * Burien • Covington • Des Moines • Enumclaw * Federal Way • Kent • King County • Maple Valley Muckleshoot Indian Tribe • Normandy Park • Pacific • Renton • SeaTac • Tukwila • Pierce Transit • Port of Seattle • Sound Transit • Puget Sound Regional Council • Washington State Department of Transportation 48 r-M South County Area Transportation Board MS: KSC-TR-0814 201 South Jackson Street Seattle, WA 98104-3856 Phone: (206) 477-3812 Fax: (206) 684-2111 • S-02 Star Lake (272nd) to Federal Way Link light rail extension • S-03-04 Federal Way to Tacoma Dome Station Link light rail extension • 5 -05 Tacoma Dome Station to Tacoma Mall Link light rail extension • S-07 Additional South Sounder Platform Extensions • 5 -08 Additional Sounder Service • S-15 South Sounder Access Program • C-09 Infill Light Rail Station: Boeing Access Road • C-10 Infill Sounder Station: Boeing Access Road • C-12 Additional parking at Tukwila International Boulevard (TIB) Station • C -13 West Seattle/Junction to Burien Transit Center Light Rail • E-02 Option 1 or 3 1-405 Bus Rapid Transit Lower Capital to Burien Transit Center • P-05 HCT Study: Light Rail Extending from West Seattle to Burien and SeaTac Airport Station • P-06 HCT Study: Light Rail Directly Linking Burien to Tukwila and Renton • R-05 System Access Program (Pedestrian and bicycle access, bicycle parking, transit) With 329,000 jobs located in the South County area alone, we need reliable and convenient transportation to jobs within and outside of South County to ensure continued economic growth and quality of life in our communities and the Puget Sound Region as a whole. SCATBd looks forward to collaborating further with the Sound Transit Executive Board in the planning of Sound Transit 3 to achieve that goal. Sincerely, D a-r-0- " Dana Ralph Councilmember, City of Ken! SCATB• Chair Carol Benson Mayor, City • Black Diamond SCATBd Vice-Chair Algona • Auburn • Black Diamond • Burien • Covington • Des Moines • Enumclaw • Federal Way • Kent • King County • Maple Valley Muckleshoot Indian Tribe • Normandy Park • Pacific • Renton • SeaTac • Tukwila • Pierce Transit • Port of Seattle • Sound Transit • Puget Sound Regional Council • Washington State Department of Transportation 49