EASTSIDE TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIP (ETP)

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1 EASTSIDE TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIP (ETP) Business Meeting Friday, February 10, 2017 Bellevue School District Room 200 (Old Boardroom) NE 1st Street Bellevue, WA Map to Location: 7:30-9:00 a.m. 1 Public Comment 7:30 a.m. 2 Approval of January 13, 2017 Meeting Summary * Action 7:35 a.m. 3 Southeastern KC Transportation Benefit District Proposal Councilmember Les Burburry, Maple Valley 4 ORCA Data Project Alex Krieg, Puget Sound Regional Council Discussion & Action Report & Discussion 7:40 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 5 Good of the Order Report & Discussion 8:55 a.m. *Attachment to agenda

2 EASTSIDE TRANSPORTATION PARTNERSHIP 2017 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FINAL (Short) Rev. Jan The Eastside Transportation Partnership (ETP) is a collaborative organization representing 21 eastside King County cities and King County. ETP is very appreciative of legislative adoption of the Connecting Washington Transportation Package. Still, more work remains to be done on important Eastside transportation and transit corridors. ETP recommends the following long-term objectives and actions to the State Legislature: 1. Public Works Trust Fund This financing tool or an alternate must be adequately funded to support transportation infrastructure needs. 2. State Fuel Taxes All fuel taxes must be indexed to market conditions to help maintain purchasing power. 3. Road Usage Charge Study We urge continued support for the Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Study currently being conducted by the Transportation Commission and initiation of a VMT demonstration program with extensive public involvement. 4. I-405 We urge fully funding the remaining improvements in the I-405 Master Plan with special emphasis on reconfiguring the key interchanges at I-90, SR 520, SR 522 SR 527, and I-5 to improve overall corridor traffic flow. 5. I-90 We urge full funding for improvements to increase the capacity of the I-90 interchanges at Front Street and SR 900 in Issaquah and reconfiguration of the key I-90/I-405 interchange to improve overall traffic flow. 6. SR 18 The mobility and capacity of this corridor between I-90 and South King County must be improved by redesigning the I-90/SR 18 interchange and constructing an additional lane between I-90 and the Issaquah-Hobart Road. 7. SR 520 The intersection of SR 520 with both SR 202 and the East Lake Sammamish Parkway has become a significant regional congestion point. We urge the State to work with all affected jurisdictions to develop and fund a work plan to address mobility at this key regional highway intersection. 8. Rural Roads and Bridges We urge the establishment and funding of a work plan for assisting King County and cities within the county with the repair and/or replacement of aging bridges and maintenance of roads deemed essential for the regional movement of people and goods. 9. Emerging Technologies Promote and incentivize alternative transportation technologies and supporting infrastructure to support development of transportation and mobility options, continue improvements in fuel mileage standards, and increase use of real-time traffic data to address near- and long-term traffic and mobility issues. 10. Regional Transit We urge the Legislature to maintain funding for regional and high-capacity transit.

3 Deputy Mayor Alan Van Ness - Kenmore (Chair) Councilmember James McNeal Bothell Chris Arkills King County Deputy Mayor Jay Arnold - Kirkland Councilmember John Stilin Redmond Eastside Transportation Partnership (ETP) December 9, 2016 Meeting Summary ETP Members Attending Councilmember Angela Birney - Redmond Councilmember Tom Odell Sammamish Councilmember David Lee Medina (Small Cities) Charles Prestrud WSDOT I. Public Comment: (Philip Skoog) Comment regarding congestion on I-405 from various types of vehicles including trucks, buses and cars. Expressed concern that ETP does not have a trucking representative and that other types of constituents were not represented. (Bruce Nurse) Spoke to the 75 th anniversary of the 18 th amendment, passed in Noticed the ETP s draft legislative agenda indicating that road funding should be 18 th amendment restricted intended for highway purposes and that new (road usage charge) revenues should also be 18 th amendment restricted. (Bill Popp) Distributed documents and edits to the draft ETP legislative agenda. Spoke to a proposal for a single, middle, HOV lane on I-405. Suggested that the Trump Administration s focus on infrastructure may be a place to look for funding to finish I-405 as intended. II. Approval of the November meeting summary Approval of the November meeting minutes was postponed until a quorum (15 members) was reached. III ETP Legislative Agenda: Councilmember Odell distributed the latest version (Draft I) of the ETP legislative agenda with comments received incorporated and the group discussed various edits. Councilmember Stilin, Redmond explained the rationale for edits made after seeking consultation with his city s lobbyist and from the presentation made by Rep. Judy Clibborn at the last ETP meeting. The pros and cons of a short vs. a longer legislative agenda and the need for two documents one that is more general and a second that more deeply explains ETP s legislative issues was described. Chris Arkills suggested that the ETP s legislative agenda should acknowledge legislators for passing the Moving Washington appropriation and passage of ST3. Arkills further suggested that presenting the legislature with a long list of wants in this session would not recognize the legislature s recent passage of such a large transportation package. Councilmember Birney suggested that various corridors should be addressed separately as the points supporting each were unique. That the longer, more detailed legislative document could be used for next legislative session as a starting point from this one toward developing ETP s legislative positions in the future. It was decided that Councilmember s Odell and Stilin should meet to create two ETP legislative documents one more general and the second more detailed. It was acknowledged that once these versions are created, they would have to be reviewed by each ETP jurisdiction. Councilmember Stilin reminded ETP that his input on the legislative agenda was based on the positions of the City of Redmond and not his personal positions and that ETP members should be representing their respective city s agendas. Deputy Mayor Van Ness furthered this sentiment by suggesting that representation encompassed more than each city s boundaries but the entire eastside (of King County). Councilmember 1

4 Eastside Transportation Partnership Meeting Minutes December 9, 2016 McNeal said that the committee needed to consider regional coordination since residents from our respective communities travel north and south and throughout the region. IV ETP Planning Susan Oxholm who staffs the ETP from King County suggested the need to gather information to guide agenda development for 2017 ETP meetings. The group discussed establishing a planning committee. Councilmember Stilin talked about developing a work plan with deadlines to keep the agenda in line with schedules for events and how to build a calendar that incorporates major plan completions. He spoke to documents from previous ETP meetings where planning was more integrated with legislative activity and thought that more planning would help ETP become a more effective organization. Charles Prestrud recommended visiting the PSRC s web site where the year s schedule is laid out and that ETP leadership will have to weigh in on which topics to comment on since there are so many transportation-related issues and work being developed. Councilmember Arnold suggested looking at the Sound Cities Association and their agenda as a way to focus since many cities are already members. Councilmember Odell spoke to the recently held Transportation Technology Conference, sponsored by the ETP and the message he is hearing consistently that transportation planning needs to happen collaboratively. He spoke to the power of new technology and how data can help ETP identify the scope of the problem. Councilmember Van Ness suggested that for future Technology in Transportation conferences, workshops or breakout sessions should be organized instead of holding one big group listening to the speakers. Chair Van Ness asked if Councilmember Stilin could be in charge of a new planning committee. Initial planning committee members were identified: Jay Arnold, James McNeal, Charles Prestrud, PSRC, Chris Arkills or other King County representative. Councilmember Odell suggested convening another (standing) meeting of the whole that would include the ETP along with the members of the Seashore and the SCATBd to encourage additional representation. V. Good of the Order Chair Van Ness said the Nominating Committee had identified Mayor John Stokes, Bellevue as Chair and Amy Ockerlander, Duvall as Vice Chair for the ETP in 2017 and that this slate would be voted on at the January ETP meeting. The group then spoke about the Technology in Transportation conference. Several said they didn t think the conference provided much new information for the sub areas and that the request for each speaker to address how their technology might be important to each jurisdiction didn t come through as much as was anticipated. Councilmember Arnold suggested follow up on the legal aspects of car sharing and using Reach Now. That ETP could come back with specifics on what jurisdictions can do to incorporate car sharing and other alternative means of transportation. The discussion confirmed that more information about how technology is evolving and specifics on what local jurisdictions need to do to be ready to incorporate it was needed. The Inrix demonstration day was identified as January 26 th and it was asked if this information could be shared with the ETP distribution list. During a brief discussion about the meeting minutes and attendees, it was suggested that in 2017, a checklist for members in attendance be developed to replace using the sign in sheets. This could also be 2

5 Eastside Transportation Partnership Meeting Minutes December 9, 2016 used as the masthead for the ETP meeting minutes to avoid confusion over which voting member attended. Other Attendees: Dane Peter Redmond Low Eddie Bothell March Kate Bellevue Nurse Bruce Kemper Dev. Co. Overleese Kris Kenmore Oxholm Susan King County Skoog Philip Popp Bill William Popp Assoc. 3

6 Mayor John Stokes Bellevue (Vice-Chair) Deputy Mayor Davina Duerr Bothell Councilmember James McNeal - Bothell Councilmember Bill Ramos - Issaquah Chris Arkills King County Councilmember Kathy Lambert King County Deputy Mayor Jay Arnold Kirkland Councilmember Wendy Weiker Mercer Island Councilmember Angela Birney Redmond Councilmember John Stilin Redmond Councilmember Ruth Perez - Renton Eastside Transportation Partnership (ETP) November 18, 2016 Meeting Summary ETP Members Attending Councilmember Tom Odell Sammamish Mayor Bernie Talmas Woodinville Councilmember Susan Boundy Sanders - Woodinville Mayor Alex Marcos Medina (Small Cities) Councilmember George Martin Clyde Hill (Small Cities) Councilmember Amy Ockerlander Duvall (SVGA) Dick Paylor ETA Brian Doennebrink Community Transit Charles Prestrud WSDOT Robin Mayhew, PSRC I. Public Comment (Vic Bishop, ETA) Spoke to increased capacity concerns on I-405 in the context of the ETP s draft 2017 legislative agenda. (David Hablewitz, Stop 405 tolls.org) Articulated reasons to stop tolling and applauded the draft 2017 ETP Legislative agenda item to re-evaluate tolling. (Other ETA spokesperson) Spoke to the potential for additional capacity funding from administration of Pres-Elect Trump and that ETP should work with the State Legislature to fund projects on 520, county roads and add capacity. (Phillip Goops) Spoke to the potential for getting sick from riding transit and referenced that as a rationale for the increase in users of rideshare such as Uber or Lyft. Suggested that air traffic controllers be hired to manage roads. II. Approval of the October 14, 2016 ETP Meeting Summary Meeting minutes were approved. III. Conversation with Rep. Judy Clibborn, House Transportation Committee Chair Representative Clibborn entertained the ETP with an update an conversation about the transportation bill that passed last session, plans for this session, specific project considerations and outstanding needs. She said that the ETP is not alone in articulating additional needs in terms of more projects and funding and noted that the majority of Western Washington is still in a growth pattern with huge need. She spoke to the Connecting Washington legislation that funded $16B in transportation projects over 16 years but recognized that the bill didn t fund the $80B in need. Rep. Clibborn said she is working on the next list of needs. Rep. Clibborn described how the toll (hot) lanes on I-167 had been working in a highly dense, limited capcity roadway and that the tolling pilot was not put in place to raise funds but to manage thruput. She spoke to the I-405 tolling that was listed on the ETP draft legislative agenda. The tolling on that corridor was put in place to fund improvements in and around Bellevue and to accommodate bus rapid transit in ST3. She said the (new) choke points on I-405 were on her new list for funding but that funding wouldn t come in She reiterated that tolling on I-405 was not put in place to generate funds but put in place as a congestion management tool. Rep. Clibborn said that requests for studies could be entertained in the upcoming session particularly for pass through and county roads being used to get to I-405 and other highways. She mentioned that potential federal funds from the Trump Administration could provide funding for county roads but that state funding for the new list of transportation needs is at least six years out. Rep. Clibborn spoke to the road user charge pilot project being conducted by the WA Transportation Commission. She visited the Hawaii Legislature and talked with folks in Oregon about those state s pilot projects. She said that without the road usage charge, the gas tax would have to be raised by a cent per year to keep up with the need and that several states have turned back indexing. 1

7 Eastside Transportation Partnership Meeting Minutes November 18, 2016 In regards to local roads and bridges, the Representative said that more funding was needed and that local jurisdictions know how to get things done. Questions: (Balducci) Asked about the Public Works Trust Fund and the impacts of the legislature not resolving funding for general education which has resulted in reallocation of Trust Fund monies and wants a civil discussion about the impacts of doing this. (Paylor) - Asked about the deployment of the $100M in savings from (I-405) toll revenue. (Clibborn) I-405 toll revenue will only be spend on the corridor, by law. The benefit of the master plan is that it allows for planned construction and that the success of those projects will benefit the entire thoroughfare, not just the hot lane. (Lambert) Asked about I-520 toll costs and when they were expected to get smaller. (Arnold) Regarding road usage charge, asked if different technologies will allow calculation of the diversion caused by tolling onto local roads. (Clibborn) PSRC is ensuring that the pilot does consider a broader look. (Arkills) Thanked the ETP for taking the long view in looking at managed lanes. At a conference he had attended, the Speaker of the Utah State House of Representatives was speaking to how managed lanes can improve choke points and support transit at the same time. (Duerr) Said that the chokepoint at SR 527, from Bothell to Mill Creek should be considered. IV ETP Legislative Agenda - Councilmember Odell, Chair of the ETP Legislative Committee, spoke to the latest version of the 2017 ETP Legislative Agenda and that Rep. Clibborn had reviewed it with him. Representative Clibborn, engaged spoke to various items on the draft agenda and said that it was encouraging to see support for the road usage charge on the ETP agenda. Councilmember Balducci suggested the group develop a longer list of consideration by the legislature and a shorter, more focuses list for each legislative session. Councilmember Stokes supported development of a shorter list as an opportunity for ETP s efforts to become more strategic. Mr. Paylor suggested that if the gas tax is to be replaced that replacement funding sources should be 18 th amendment restricted. Mayor Stokes suggested the ETP needed more time to work on the agenda and that more time would be granted at the next meeting to develop both a longer and shorter list. He expressed his thanks to the work done to date by the ETP Legislative Committee. V. King County Transit Advisory Commission Lei Wu and David Johnson, members of the King County Transit Advisory Commission explained the purpose of the commission and asked for additional members to consider serving on the commission from the eastside. The commission has several main charges including to serve as advocates for public infrastructure improvements that benefit transit and to improve pedestrian and cycle access to transit. These are speed and reliability projects that improve signal priority and bus jumps for transit. Non-motorized projects seek to improve access to transit and remove barriers. (Huckabay) Asked how METRO was gathering information to suggest which speed and reliability and nonmotorized projects would increase ridership. (Johnson) suggested that a representative from Sammamish would be welcome on the commission and that currently there is not representation from that area of the county. (Arkills) Thanked members of the Commission for their service and asked that the application link for participation on the Transit Advisory Commission be sent out with the meeting minutes. VI. Good of the Order Mayor Talmus reported on the ETP Nominating Committee s work on 2017 ETP leadership recommendations. Mayor John Stokes from Bellevue as Chair and Amy Ockerlander from Duvall as Vice Chair are being nominated. Advanced Technology Conference is being held in December with Peter Rogoff from Sound Transit, Tom Alberg, from Madrona Venture Capital, and the CEO s from Inrix and BMW REACH NOW. Attendance was encouraged and it was asked that the link to register be sent to the ETP membership again. 2

8 Eastside Transportation Partnership Meeting Minutes November 18, 2016 o (Huckabay, Talmas and Odell) Discussed the impacts of autonomous vehicles coming in the future and how technological additions to cars are being made. It was hoped that traffic data being captured could shed some light on the diversion of drivers onto local streets from congestion or tolled routes. (Lambert) King County has passed it budget bringing new METRO transit hours with additional bus cleaning and cameras for safety. The budget also included funding for the alternative transportation program, that should be grown. o (Asher) Asked if METRO could come at a future meeting to deliver a detailed overview of the bus routes and frequency of service as passed in the budget. Upcoming Issaquah Transportation Summit - Discussion about the need to consider pass through traffic in all jurisdiction and in particular for those that are on the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary and from travelers coming from Pierce and Snohomish Counties. Meeting adjourned shortly after 9:00 a.m. Other Attendees: David Hablewitz, Stop 405 tolls.org Erin Leonhart, Bothell Lei Wu, KC Transit Adv. Committee Ariel Taylor, King County Todd Woosley, King County Stephen Padua, Kirkland Vic Bishop, ETA Kate March, Bellevue Don Samdahl, Fehr & Peers Iris Samberg Steve Dve.(sp?), Snohomish County Bruce Nurse, Kemper Dev. Corp Cheryl Paston, Sammamish Doug Levy, Redmond, Renton & Issaquah Peter Dane, Redmond Kim Henry, WSDOT Susan Oxholm, King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci, King County 3