AN ORDINANCE relating to grant funds from non-City sources; authorizing the Director of Transportation to accept specified grants and execute related agreements for and on behalf of the City; amending Ordinance 125207, which adopted the 2017 Budget, including the 2017-2022 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to the Seattle Department of Transportation; revising allocations and spending plans for certain projects in the 2017-2022 CIP; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Thank you. Are there any comments on those in favor of filing clerk file 314337. Please vote i i those opposed vote no the motion carries and the clerk file is placed on file. Please read agenda item number ten The. Report Short. Title. The Report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee Agenda Item ten Council 119008 relating to the Grants Fund for non city sources. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. Thank you very much. Councilmember O'Brien. Thank you for those tracking this at home. This is a grant acceptance ordinance. The city law requires that when we receive grants from other entities, the city council goes through a process to do that. This grant acceptance ordinance includes a number of sources. The largest one is a $50 million grant we're receiving from the Federal Transit Administration and a $7.3 million grant from the Puget Sound Regional Council for the Center City Streetcar Connector. It also includes a $9 million fast grant. Fast is from the federal government, also for the Lander Street overpass and smaller grants for safe house schools and bike ped improvements from watchdog. Thank you, councilman brian. Are there any further comments? Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. I just wanted to make note that in committee I proposed an amendment to this legislation, and I thank the committee members for supporting that that that amendment. It adds a new Section five as it relates specifically to the streetcar project, requiring that the executive report to council detailing the financial operating plan and projected performance measures . And it adds a requirement that potential funding sources be identified if operations funding proves insufficient and additional potential funding sources for construction if the FTA funding doesn't come through. And then finally it asks for projections of the streetcar fund balance. And how the Executive intends to retire the Interphone loan for operating the South Lake Union streetcar. There are a lot of good projects in this grant acceptance ordinance, namely funding for lander, pedestrian crossing safety, school zone safety, neighborhood greenways, intersection improvements and pavement paving projects. I If the streetcar funding was the only item in in the ordinance, I would very likely be voting no on it. I'm very concerned that we have an overly optimistic perspective on both the operations costs as well as the the funding that's available for construction. The grant is for 50 million. It's part of a $75 million request. I'm concerned that we won't get the full amount. Given the chaos in D.C. right now. The capital cost is estimated to be 152 million as it relates to operations. We're making a lot of assumptions around fare revenues, and I'm really concerned that we're going to end up cannibalizing metro bus service hours to pay for streetcar operations when the fare revenues aren't what we anticipate them them being. But that said, I appreciate that the amendment will get us a report to the Council by September 30th about the risk and funding for operations for the first six years and contingency strategies in the event that revenues don't come in. Thank you, Councilman Herbold, for the comments, Councilman Bagshaw. Yeah, I just want to say thank you, Councilmember Herbold. She and I actually share a lot of the same concerns, both in terms of the amount of money, what I think are very overly optimistic estimates on how many people are going to ride. But my concern, in addition to what you were saying, is that we're looking at having designated lanes for the middle part, that is the center city part for the streetcars. But those are not desert dedicated lanes from Mohi to Westlake, nor from Capitol Hill down to Jackson. And if we don't have designated lanes all the way along, it doesn't make any sense to dedicate lanes right through one central city, because the whole point of having the streetcar lines in one center city with dedicated lanes was to move the streetcar faster than cars. And if we don't have that straightened out before construction begins, I fear that we're putting in a tremendous amount of money without the results we want. Very good. Council Member Johnson. I feel obliged to remind my colleagues at this point that we received a letter from, I think, nearly 70 organizations and strong support of the Center City streetcar, and that ranged from institutions up and along First Avenue like the Pike Place Market and the Pioneer Square Alliance, as well as the Clark Museum and several other not involved directly on the line itself. You know, as someone said to me the other day, without this center city streetcar, we would look an awful lot like a smile with a big missing tooth in the middle. And, you know, that's not a perfect analogy, but I do think that this is a really great opportunity for us to make sure that we do connect those two disconnected systems with something that is going to really work well. I do not share the concerns of my colleagues around some of the operating costs. I do think that there's efficiencies to be gained here by adding a new line and having very similar maintenance loads as we have today. I do believe that this is going to be a good investment for us. I am long a proponent of getting those streetcar lines and frankly all transit into a dedicated right of way. Love to see us implement that. That's really about political will. That's not about anything other than that. So I'm excited to vote yes on this today and excited to see this move forward. Thank you, Catherine Johnson. Catherine Gonzalez. Just really quickly, I want to express my support of the comments that you just made, Councilmember Johnson, not just because your haircut haircut is on point today, but because you just made some brilliant remarks as well. And I you know, I want to recognize that a lot of those signatories included small businesses, particularly ethnic owned businesses in the Chinatown International District. I had an opportunity to have a conversation with them about the streetcar. And many of them expressed to me, you know, specific concerns around the city, not fulfilling a promise that they felt was made to them when we built the first hill streetcar. And I think it's important to recognize that this connection that we are creating through the the the city connector is an important part of making sure that we connect these different pieces of our city for purposes of economic development. And so I agree with the the analysis that Councilmember Johnson has made in terms of finding efficiencies and making sure that we're still fiscally responsible now. So just wanted to layer on top of that the recognition that I think that this is really critical to continuing to connect our business small, small business centers with each other so that they can benefit as greatly as they can from these transportation investments. Very good. And just one more and I'll take one minute or less. You don't have a nice haircut, though. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead, Councilman Bagshaw. It is. A very nice. Hair. Thank you very much. I'm going to support this. So I don't want Councilmember Johnson to think I am not. The dedicated land portion is the thing that I really want us to emphasize. If we don't get the dedicated lanes, we're not going to have the business development. So I'm just suggesting as we're going forward and making our decisions here, that we take that that opportunity for the political will and say, if we're going to have a streetcar, it's got to move through traffic. It can't get stuck. So let's let's move forward as you are recommending. I like the idea about having the full smile. I love your metaphor, but we can't have them stuck in traffic up on Broadway and then not have people get on down in the center city. It does not make sense. Very good. Okay. Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Burgess Gonzalez. Hi, Purple. Hi, Johnson. Suarez O'Brien. Hi, Suzanne. Hi, Bagshaw. Hi, President Herrell. Hi. Nine in favor, nine opposed. Thank you. The bill passed and show sign it. We've held agenda item number 11, so we've come to the end of the agenda. Are there any further business going for the council? Councilmember O'Brien first. Well, I'm sorry, quick. I'm just going to comment on Rob's hair as well. That's that. We'll come back to that. Councilmember O'Brien. I have a haircut tomorrow afternoon. I would ask to be excused from full council meetings on July 24th, 31st and August 7th, doing some you. August seven is we've moved in second and the cast member can be excused for July 24th, July 31st and August 7th. All those in favor say I. I oppose the ayes have it council member whereas. Did you? I said. I. Oh, no. I was wondering if you wanted to elaborate on any. If we're good, any further business. You know. Where he's going. To want. You, President Howell. I would like to be excused from full council this coming Monday, July 17th. July seven. It's a move in a second. The councilman won't be excused for July 17th. All those in favor say I. I oppose. The ayes have it. Any further business? Yes. Yes, we have. Oh, I have my poster. We have our live in D5 July 22nd on my birthday. July 22nd. It has been duly noted. And with that. Yes, we will stand adjourned. And everyone, have a great afternoon. Jesus.