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As you know, Tarrant County is proposing a Bond election in May 2006. At this time, the County
is planning on including about $200 million for "transportation-related" projects. This $200 million
is currently allocated as follows:
• Transit $ 20 million
• Commissioner Discretionary $ 40 million ($10 million/Commissioner)
• Congestion Mitigation $140 million
Tarrant County issued a "call for projects" to all the communities within their jurisdiction. They
received about 130 requests from 19 municipalities (and a few requests from TxDOT) for projects
totaling about $540 million. The County Bond Program required cities to match 50% of the
project costs, so these requests asked for a total • about $270 million • County Bond funds. At
your direction, the City • Fort Worth submitted 12 projects asking for about $31 million.
The Commissioners Court formed a Project Evaluation Committee (PEC) to review all submittals
and to recommend funding priority. The PEC met six times to develop ranking criteria and to
MINI bsequently rank all the projects. The resulting prioritized project list was submitted to the
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ommissioner's Court for their consideration • January 17, 2006. With the current funding
allocation, at least the first 44 top ranked projects would be funded.
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2,729,000
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$
7,994,000
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$
7,300,000
6
$
3,320,000
12
$ 2,090,000
19
The folloviing Fort Worth projects were NOT included in the top 44 ranked projects and will not
likely be funded:
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PEC Rank
Traffic Signals/Intersection (locations on Camp Bowie)
$
662,500
60
Traffic Signals (Summer Creek area)
$
420,000
73
Traffic Sig alslIntersection (Miller Ave)
$
277,500
75
Traffic Signals (East Lanccaster )
85
Total
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$1,780,000
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH. TEXAS
INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
To the Mayor and Members of the City Council
No. 8743
January 24, 2006
Page 2 of 2
SUBJECT: Tarrant County Bond Program — Transportation Projects
Of course, the "funding cutoff" line and/or priority fist could change depending on the Court's
direction. The PEC simply ranked all projects based on their merit and submitted the resulting
prioritized list to the Commissioner's Court for their consideration. Fortunately, all the City of Fort
Worth's major arterial projects were ranked in the top 20 projects.
As for the Fort Worth projects that likely won't get County funding, we hope to get grant funding
for some of these projects from the upcoming call for projects from the North Central Texas
Council of Governments.
We also submitted two "on- system" (TxDOT owned facilities) projects for consideration. The PEC
didn't rank the 18 submitted on- system projects since it was understood that the Commissioner's
Court wanted to deal with these projects separately. Both of the on- system projects we submitted
were included in the list sent to the Court. The Court will consider how much funding to
dedicate to the on- system projects versus the other congestion mitigation projects.
"On- system" Projects (submitted to Court) Funding Requested PEC Rank
Traffic Signals (along SH 183) $ 585,000 NA (didn't rank)
FM 156 realignment (around Alliance runway ext.) $5,100,000 NA (didn't rank)
Total $5,685,000
TxDOT submitted two "on- system" projects for the Court's consideration as follows:
TxDOT Submitted Projects Funding Requested PEC Rank
FM 1187 (widen from IH 35W to Oak Grove) $ 2,250,000 NA (didn't rank)
I 35W (widen from IH 820 to US 287) $10,000,000 NA (didn't rank)
Total $12,250,000
We expect that the Commissioner's Court will take final action on the funding allocation and
project list within the next 2 to 3 weeks.
We will continue to monitor and report on the progress of this Bond Program.
Charles R. Boswell
City Manager
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS
INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No.
To the Mayor and Members of the City Council January 19, 2006
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SUBJECT: Mobility Impaired Employee Parking
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As we continue to develop our downtown employee parking program, we want to ensure that
the needs of non -City mobility impaired employees are met as much as possible. As stated in
previous Council presentations, we recommend that in some cases removing parking meter
heads and assigning permitted spaces (paid by the employee or the employer) in those
spaces will be necessary. Reasonable accommodations for parking near the non -City
employee's place of employment will be provided while balancing the needs of other
customers using retail and restaurant business in the downtown area.
Since the enforcement of meter feeding began on November 21, 2005, 50 non -City
employees who met mobility- impaired status have contacted us. As a temporary measure we
are allowing these non -City employees to park at meters for free. An ordinance establishing a
rate for assigned pen-nit parking spaces for mobility impaired employees is currently being
drafted and will be presented along with an M &C in the near future. The recommended rate
for these spaces is $100 per month based on average parking meter revenues for the
downtown area. Contingent on City Council approval, the new rate will go into effect
beginning March 1, 2006.
The City has already assigned spaces for our own employees.
Charles R. Boswell
City Manager
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER
FORT WORTH, TEXAS