Record No: CB 119512    Version: Council Bill No: CB 119512
Type: Ordinance (Ord) Status: Passed
Current Controlling Legislative Body City Clerk
On agenda: 5/28/2019
Ordinance No: Ord 125832
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the City's 2019 Budget; authorizing acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Center to accept specified grants and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements for and on behalf of the City; amending Ordinance 125724, which adopted the 2019 Budget, including the 2019-2024 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to the Seattle Department of Transportation in various budget control levels, and from various funds in the 2019 Budget; adding new projects to the 2019-2024 CIP; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2019-2024 CIP; making cash transfers between the General Fund and the Transportation Fund; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
Sponsors: Mike O'Brien
Attachments: 1. Att B - North of Downtown Mobility Action Plan
Supporting documents: 1. Att A – STBD Capital Improvements, 2. Summary and Fiscal Note, 3. Summary Att A - SDOT 2019 Grant Acceptance and Budget Revision Ordinance Summary Detail Table, 4. Proposed Amendment 1 (added; 5/21/19), 5. Presentation (added; 5/22/19), 6. Signed Ordinance 125832, 7. Affidavit of Publication

CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

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AN ORDINANCE relating to the City’s 2019 Budget; authorizing acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Center to accept specified grants and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements for and on behalf of the City; amending Ordinance 125724, which adopted the 2019 Budget, including the 2019-2024 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to the Seattle Department of Transportation in various budget control levels, and from various funds in the 2019 Budget; adding new projects to the 2019-2024 CIP; revising project allocations for certain projects in the 2019-2024 CIP; making cash transfers between the General Fund and the Transportation Fund; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

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WHEREAS, by Ordinance 125724, in November 2018, the Council adopted the City’s 2019 Budget, including the 2019-2024 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); and

WHEREAS, since adoption of the 2019 Budget, including the 2019-2024 CIP, additional funding from the Washington State Convention Center, Sound Transit, Oak View Group, and King County has been committed to advance various capital improvement projects related to transportation; and

WHEREAS, The City of Seattle receives formula funds from the Federal Transit Administration for preventive and major maintenance of the Seattle Streetcar system and the Monorail; and

WHEREAS, The City of Seattle was awarded funds from Federal Highway Administration grant programs for design and construction of sidewalks, crossing improvements, bicycle facilities, paving, signal improvements, transit improvements, and the Northgate Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge; and

WHEREAS, The City of Seattle was awarded funds from the Transportation Improvement Board for the design and construction of an East Marginal Way bicycle facility; and

WHEREAS, Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has solicited the Seattle Department of Transportation regarding the City’s readiness to accept and rapidly obligate contingent grant funding for the East Marginal Way Heavy Haul Project; and

WHEREAS, PSRC requires obligation of contingent grant funds by July 15th, 2019 but will not award funds until June 2019; and

WHEREAS, these grant funds require execution of agreements; and

WHEREAS, spending of these grants will begin in 2019; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. In order to pay for necessary costs and expenses incurred or to be incurred in 2019, but for which insufficient appropriations were made due to causes that could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of the making of the 2019 Budget, appropriations for the following items in the 2019 Budget are increased from the funds shown, as follows:

Item

Department

Fund

Budget Summary Level/BCL Code

Amount

1.1

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility Operations (13000-BO-TR-17003)

$32,000

1.2

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility Operations (13000-BO-TR-17003)

$1,365,000

1.3

Finance General

General Fund (00100)

Reserves (00100-BO-FG-2QD00)

$1,025,641

Net Change

$2,422,641

Section 2. The Seattle Transportation Benefit District (STBD) Capital Improvements project (ID: MC-TR-C097), as described in Attachment A to this ordinance, and the North of Downtown Mobility Action Plan project (ID: MC-TR-C101), as described in Attachment B to this ordinance, are established in the 2019-2024 Adopted Capital Improvement Program.

Section 3. Appropriations in the 2019 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2019-2024 Adopted Capital Improvement Program are modified as follows:

Item

Department

Fund

Budget Summary Level/BCL Code

BCL Appropriation Change

CIP Project Name

Allocation

3.1

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

 $1,377,075

Center City Gateway and South Michigan Street ITS (MC-TR-C012)

(($1,827,000)) $3,215,433

3.2

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

 $6,381,667

Transit Corridor Improvements (MC-TR-C029)

(($0))  $6,381,667

3.3

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$80,000

Freight Spot Improvement Program (MC-TR-C047)

(($600,000)) $680,000

3.4

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$1,473,511

Burke-Gilman Trail Extension (MC-TR-C044)

(($1,399,000)) $2,872,511

3.5

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

 $1,600,000

Bike Master Plan - Protected Bike Lanes (MC-TR-C062)

(($1,988,450)) $3,588,450

3.6

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

 $2,913,303

North of Downtown Mobility Action Plan (MC-TR-C101)

(($0))  $2,913,303

Net Change

$13,785,556

 

 

These modifications shall operate for the purposes of decreasing or increasing the basis for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 125724.

Unspent funds so appropriated shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance.

Section 4. The Directors of the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Center are authorized to accept the following non-City funding from the grantors listed below, and to execute, deliver, and perform agreements for the purposes described below. The funds, when received, shall be deposited in the receiving fund identified below to support, or as reimbursement for, the corresponding appropriations set forth in Section 5 of this ordinance.

Item

Fund

Grantor

Purpose

Amount

4.1

Transportation Fund (13000)

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) - Safe Routes to School Grant

Intersection redesign and sidewalk at NE 117th St

 $950,000

4.2

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - Pedestrian and Bicycle Program Grant

Crossing improvements at 35th Ave SW & SW Graham St

 $544,000

4.3

Transportation Fund (13000)

Transportation Improvement Board - Fuel Tax Grant

Design and construction of E Marginal Way Bike Facility

 $3,000,000

4.4

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Design and construction of E Marginal Way Bike Facility

 $2,000,000

4.5

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Construction of Fairview Multi-Modal Corridor (Roosevelt)

 $4,030,400

4.6

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Construction of Madison Corridor Bus Rapid Transit

 $4,760,000

4.7

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Construction of 11th Ave NE Preservation

 $1,400,000

4.8

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Construction of 15th Ave S Preservation

 $1,400,000

4.9

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) - City Safety Program

Design and construction of Leading Pedestrian Intervals

 $1,287,000

4.10

Transportation Fund (13000)

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) - TIER Grant

Design and construction of Northgate Bridge and 1st Ave MUP

$10,000,000

4.11

Seattle Streetcar Operations Fund (10800)

Federal Transportation Agency (FTA)

Maintenance of the Seattle Streetcar system

$1,290,318

4.12

Transportation Fund (13000)

Federal Transportation Agency (FTA)

Monorail system maintenance and renovation

$3,012,762

Total Grants Accepted

$33,674,480

Section 5. Contingent upon the execution of grant or other funding agreements and receipt of the grant funds authorized in Section 4 of this ordinance, appropriations in the 2019 Budget and project allocations in the 2019-2024 Adopted Capital Improvement Program for the following items are increased as follows:

Item

Department

Fund

Budget Summary Level/BCL Code

BCL Appropriation Change

CIP Project Name

Allocation

5.1

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$950,000

Pedestrian Master Plan - New Sidewalks (MC-TR-C058)

(($712,500)) $1,662,500

5.2

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$544,000

Pedestrian Master Plan - Crossing Improvements (MC-TR-C061)

(($2,336,093)) $2,880,093

5.3

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$5,000,000

Heavy Haul Network Program (MC-TR-C090)

(($0)) $5,000,000

5.4

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$4,030,400

Roosevelt Multimodal Corridor (MC-TR-C013)

(($0)) $4,030,400

5.5

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$4,760,000

Madison Street Bus Rapid Transit (MC-TR-C051)

(($553,062)) $5,313,062

5.6

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Major Maintenance/Replacement (13000-BC-TR-19001)

$2,800,000

Arterial Asphalt & Concrete Program Phase II (MC-TR-C033)

(($0)) $2,800,000

5.7

Seattle Department of Transportation

Transportation Fund (13000)

Mobility-Capital (13000-BC-TR-19003)

$1,287,000

Vision Zero (MC-TR-C064)

(($0)) $1,287,000

Net Change

$19,371,400

 

(($3,601,655)) $22,973,055

These modifications shall operate for the purposes of decreasing or increasing the basis for the limit imposed by subsection 4(c) of Ordinance 125724.

Unspent funds so appropriated shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance.

Section 6. Appropriations in the 2019 Adopted Budget and project allocations in the 2019-2024 Adopted Capital Improvement Program are modified as follows:

Item

Department

Fund

Budget Summary Level/BCL Code

BCL Appropriation Change

CIP Project Name

Allocation

6.1

Seattle Department of Transportation

Seattle Transportation Benefit District Fund (19900)

Mobility-Capital (19900-BC-TR-19003)

 ($5,000,000)

Transit Corridor Improvements (MC-TR-C029)

(($9,523,000)) $4,523,000

 

 

 

 

 $5,000,000

STBD Capital Improvements (MC-TR-C097)

(($0)) $5,000,000

6.2

Seattle Department of Transportation

Seattle Transportation Benefit District Fund (19900)

Mobility-Capital (19900-BC-TR-19003)

 ($4,000,000)

Transit Corridor Improvements (MC-TR-C029)

(($4,523,000)) $523,000*

 

 

 

 

 $4,000,000

N/A

$4,000,000

Net Change

 $0

 

$0

* This allocation amount is after the transaction identified in item 6.1.

Section 7. The Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation is authorized to accept up to $4 million of non-City funding from the Puget Sound Regional Council for the East Marginal Way Heavy Haul Project, contingent upon receipt of final award from Puget Sound Regional Council.  The funds, when received, shall be deposited in the Transportation Fund (13000).

Section 8. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken after its passage and prior to its effective date is ratified and confirmed.

Section 9. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by a 3/4 vote of all the members of the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 2019, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this _____ day of _________________________, 2019.

____________________________________

President ____________ of the City Council

Approved by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2019.

____________________________________

Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor

Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2019.

____________________________________

Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

(Seal)

Attachments:

Attachment A - Seattle Transportation Benefit District - Capital Improvements

Attachment B - North of Downtown Mobility Action Plan