HomeMy WebLinkAboutTrans 2009-08-17 Item 3B - Discussion - Tukwila Urban Access (Klickitat) Improvement / Local Improvement District Formation ScheduleTO:
City of Tukwila
Mayor Haggerton
Transportation Committee
FROM: Public Works Directoy
DATE: August 12, 2009
Westfield Mall
Wig Development LLC
La Pianta LLC
DISCUSSION
Jim Haggerton, Mayor
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SUBJECT: Tukwila Urban Access Improvement Project (Klickitat)
Project No. 84 -RW19
LID Formation Schedule
ISSUE
Proposed schedule and steps for the Local Improvement District formation.
BACKGROUND
The history on this project is quite extensive, as it has been ongoing for many years. Specific to
the financing, staff has aggressively pursued grant funds in addition to other funding sources. In
2005, the Transportation Improvement Board informed the City that in order to be competitive
for TIB grant funding, formation of an LID was strongly recommended. In response to the TIB,
the City retained Macaulay Associates to prepare an LID Feasibility Report, a Preliminary
Special Benefit/Proportional Assessment Study, and Preliminary Assessment Roll. Because of
the City's demonstrated commitment to forming an LID, Tukwila was successful in obtaining a
$5 million grant from the TIB. The Preliminary Assessment Roll is nearly complete and will be
presented to the Council for action in September.
Throughout the Preliminary Engineering phase of this project, the City has pursued getting No-
Protest Agreements from property owners as development has occurred. These agreements
state that the property owner will not protest the formation of an LID for the Klickitat project. The
property owner can protest the Final Assessment Roll amount. No- Protest Agreements have
been signed by:
Forming an LID involves many different steps that must be taken in very specific order and
adhere to very specific notification schedules. In 2006, the City retained Foster Pepper PLLC
for Bond Counsel services. The City Attorney's office, through Kenyon Disend staff, will be
providing Special Counsel services related to the LID formation. A detailed schedule of steps to
be taken has been developed with the aid of the City's legal counsel team.
The proposed schedule includes an extra step not required to meet legal guidelines the Open
House for property owners, business owners, and tenants of the LID area. Although this
schedule does not show all the remaining steps necessary to get the project out to bid this fall,
this aggressive schedule shows the key milestones that must be met to form the LID. Without
the LID, the funding package for the Klickitat project is incomplete. Without the rest of the
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funding in place so that the project can be advertised for construction, over $8 million in grants
which have already been awarded to this project will become unavailable for use. Grant funding
agencies have been hit as hard as anybody else in this difficult economic climate, and projects
unable to go to construction this year or next will have the funding cancelled and reassigned to
projects which can be built.
The proposed schedule, showing only key milestones, is shown below.
8/17
8/28
19/4
9/8
9/14
9/21
I 10/2
10/5
10/12
10/19
11/1 -11/15
12/16 -12/31
January 2010
January- February
2010
February-March
2010
March November
2010
November 15,
2010
RECOMMENDATION
Information Only.
ATTACHMENTS
None.
Transportation Committee
Inform TC of LID schedule and steps
Open House
Open House for property owners, businesses and tenants
I Notification to Property Owners For Public Hearing on Resolution to Form LID I
Transportation Committee
Resolution of Intent to Form LID
Committee of the Whole (COW)
Resolution of Intent to Form LID
City Council (regular session)
Public Hearing and adoption of Resolution of Intent to Form LID
I Notification to Property Owners For Public Hearing on Ordinance to Form LID I
Transportation Committee
Ordinance to Form LID
Committee of the Whole (COW)
Ordinance to Form LID
City Council (regular session)
Public Hearing and adoption of Ordinance to Form LID
Bid Documents
PS &E on street for bids, 4 week time period (3 weeks required by federal
funds, 1 week extra for holiday)
I Bids Due
Transportation Committee
Recommendation for award of contract to successful bidder
City Council (COW and regular session)
Award of Contract
Notice to Proceed to successful bidder
Construction of project
Roadway open to traffic, substantial completion of construction done
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