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Mayor City Council Christine Lundberg City Council Agenda Sean VanGordon, Ward 1 City Manager: City Hall Steve Moe, Ward 2 Sheri Moore, Ward 3 Gino Grimaldi 225 Fifth Street Leonard Stoehr, Ward 4 City Recorder: Springfield, Oregon 97477 541.726.3700 Marilee Woodrow, Ward 5 AJ Ripka 541.726.3700 Joe Pishioneri, Ward 6 Online at www.springfield-or.gov The meeting location is wheelchair-accessible. For the hearing-impaired, an interpreter can be provided with 48 hours’ notice prior to the meeting. For meetings in the Council Meeting Room, a “Personal PA Receiver” for the hearing impaired is available, as well as an Induction Loop for the benefit of hearing aid users. To arrange for these services, call 541.726.3700. Meetings will end prior to 10:00 p.m. unless extended by a vote of the Council. All proceedings before the City Council are recorded. February 19, 2019 _____________________________ 6:00 p.m. Work Session Jesse Maine Room ______________________________ (Council work sessions are reserved for discussion between Council, staff and consultants; therefore, Council will not receive public input during work sessions. Opportunities for public input are given during all regular Council meetings) CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL - Mayor Lundberg ___, Councilors VanGordon___, Moe___, Moore____, Stoehr___, Woodrow ___, and Pishioneri ___. 1. Transit Tomorrow Comprehensive Operations Analysis [Emma Newman] (25 Minutes) 2. Solid Waste Code Changes [Sandy Belson] (25 Minutes) ADJOURNMENT Council Agenda February 19, 2019 Page 2 ______________________________ 7:00 p.m. Regular Meeting Council Meeting Room ____________________________ CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL - Mayor Lundberg ___, Councilors VanGordon___, Moe___, Moore____, Stoehr___, Woodrow ___, and Pishioneri ___. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE SPRINGFIELD UPBEAT 1. Mayor’s Recognition 2. Other CONSENT CALENDAR 1. Claims a. Approval of January 2019, Disbursements for Approval 2. Minutes 3. Resolutions 4. Ordinances 5. Other Routine Matters a. Accept the City’s Fiscal Year 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. b. Approve a Brand Name specification for the Springfield Police Department rifle replacements. MOTION: APPROVE/REJECT THE CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT CALENDAR PUBLIC HEARINGS - Please limit comments to 3 minutes. Request to speak cards are available at both entrances. Please present cards to City Recorder. Speakers may not yield their time to others. 1. Supplemental Budget Resolution [Neil Obringer] (10 Minutes) Council Agenda February 19, 2019 Page 3 RESOLUTION NO. 1 – A RESOLUTION ADJUSTING RESOURCES AND REQUIREMENTS IN THE FOLLOWING FUNDS: GENERAL, SPECIAL REVENUE, TRANSIENT ROOM TAX, POLICE LOCAL OPTION LEVY, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, INSURANCE, AND VEHICLE & EQUIPMENT FUNDS. MOTION: ADOPT/NOT ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 1. 2. City Manager Recruitment [Mary Bridget Smith] (10 Minutes) MOTION: APPROVE/NOT APPROVE THE HIRING PROCEDURES AND PROJECT TIMELINE FOR THE CITY MANAGER RECRUITMENT. BUSINESS FROM THE AUDIENCE - Limited to 20 minutes. Please limit comments to 3 minutes. Request to Speak cards are available at both entrances. Please present cards to City Recorder. Speakers may not yield their time to others. COUNCIL RESPONSE CORRESPONDENCE AND PETITIONS BIDS ORDINANCES BUSINESS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL 1. Committee Appointments a. Springfield Representative on the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency (LRAPA) Board. [Niel Laudati] (05 Minutes) MOTION: APPOINT VICTORIA DOYLE AS THE SPRINGFIELD CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVE ON THE LANE REGIONAL AIR PROTECTION (LRAPA) BOARD. 3. Business from Council a. Committee Reports b. Other Business BUSINESS FROM THE CITY MANAGER BUSINESS FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY ADJOURNMENT AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date: 2/19/2019 Meeting Type: Work Session Staff Contact/Dept.: Emma Newman/DPW Staff Phone No: 541.726.4585 Estimated Time: 25 Minutes S P R I N G F I E L D Council Goals: Encourage Economic C I T Y C O U N C I L Development and Revitalization through Community Partnerships ITEM TITLE: TRANSIT TOMORROW COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONS ANALYSIS ACTION Receive presentation from Lane Transit District (LTD) staff on Transit Tomorrow REQUESTED: planning and provide input, if desired, to support upcoming LTD Board decision making. ISSUE LTD is evaluating the transit network in the Springfield-Eugene area and will make STATEMENT: decisions on how to reconfigure the network and allocate additional transit funding. ATTACHMENTS: ATT1: Transit Tomorrow Scenario Report Introduction & Summary ATT2: Transit Tomorrow FAQ Sheet ATT3: Transit Scenarios (Existing Network, Ridership, and Coverage) DISCUSSION/ LTD is doing a comprehensive operations analysis, called Transit Tomorrow, FINANCIAL which is looking at the entire public transit network in Springfield and Eugene. In IMPACT: addition, the recent transportation bill (HB2017) established the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund (STIF) by establishing an employee payroll tax. LTD expects an increase of 10-15% in operating revenue from the STIF, and will soon decide how to use those funds. Transit Tomorrow conducted a first round of outreach and heard from the community that people most want more evening and weekend bus service. People also expressed a desire for more frequent daytime service. The second round of outreach started with an online survey (LTD.org/Transit-Tomorrow) that will be open through the end of February to seek input from community members on tradeoffs presented in the Scenarios Report (ATT1). Transit Tomorrow will result in changes to LTD’s service that would go into effect between 2020 and 2023. In making this decision the LTD Board will determine the tradeoffs among various approaches to providing transit service. The first tradeoff will focus on whether the transit network should be designed in a way that places a higher value on ridership, or on system coverage. Do people have to walk further to the bus, but buses come more frequently? Or, do people have bus service close to them, but the bus does not come as often? ATT1 and ATT3 provide more information on the Ridership Scenario and Coverage Scenario that lay out a potential transit network based on each of the two values. The existing LTD network map has also been included in ATT3 for reference. The second tradeoff focuses on how to allocate the additional STIF funding LTD expects to receive. Should additional resources go towards increased service (i.e. evening, weekend, more frequent buses) or reduced fares (i.e. youth pass, low income fare, senior passes, etc.)? Transit Tomorrow planning will inform key transit network and funding allocation decisions that impact our community. LTD will likely start implementing at least some of the changes that come out of this process by fall 2020. Please note: this is the introduction section from the Transit Tomorrow Scenarios Report. To access a print-quality version of the full report (41 pgs) or an appendix with Travel Time maps from 16 locations for each Scenario (42 pages) please visit: https://www.ltd.org/transit-tomorrow-document-library/ Introduction & Summary Scenarios Report JARRETT WALKER + ASSOCIATES Attachment 1, Page 1 of 6 Lane Transit District | 3 The Trade-offs Y R Transit Tomorrow What We’ve Heard A Lane Transit District (LTD) has launched Transit Tomorrow, an effort to Public input received to date suggests the community does not fall understand how LTD’s services should be distributed in its service area. entirely on one side of either trade-off. LTD operates a variety of public transportation services throughout Ridership vs. Coverage central Lane County. But people are most likely to experience LTD as the bus system in Eugene and Springfield. Over 90% of LTD’s rider- Transit Tomorrow engaged the public in summer 2018 on preferences and priorities for future LTD service, through in-person events and a ship comes from the regularly scheduled bus routes (including EmX and & SUMM ON public online survey. In total, LTD engaged nearly 1,000 people through Routes 1 through 85) that operate in the Eugene-Springfield metro area. ti this effort, with the following primary results: Transit Tomorrow is focusing first on how these metro area bus UC • Most of the people we heard from were more interested in high routes might change in the next three years. Upcoming work will D frequency service than maximizing coverage. But not everyone: over address how changes in bus service may impact LTD’s other services, O such as the demand response services provided by Ridesource. one-third were more interested in coverage. tr • When we asked people about their priorities for service, respon- dents consistently prioritized frequency improvements – especially Key Trade-offs weekend and evening frequency – above other possibilities, includ- 0 IN This report describes and evaluates four possible ways that LTD service ing service to more places. could change, based on two major trade-offs: • Then again, most respondents preferred that LTD make minor • Ridership vs. Coverage: Is it more important to provide frequent adjustments rather than a network redesign. This argues against service in places that will attract the most riders, or to provide a little designing a network only for higher ridership and higher frequen- bit of service to as many places as possible? cies, as that would require significant change. : Is it more important to use LTD’s • Service vs. Affordability Service vs. Affordability resources to provide as much service as possible, or to reduce the cost of getting on the bus? Separately, LTD convened an ad hoc Fare Policy Committee with repre- sentatives from community stakeholders. This committee was convened Figure 1: Trade-offs. Where should LTD focus its resources in the next three Neither of these questions have technically “correct” answers. LTD will in response to repeated requests from the public to expand fare dis- years? Is it more important to provide frequent service in a few places, or a always need to balance the competing priorities they reflect. In both count programs targeted at youth and low-income populations. little bit of service everywhere? Is it more important to increase service, or to cases, the correct answer depends on what the community values most.