HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12191989 - S.7 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Sunne Wright McPeak tetra
Costa
DATE: December 19 , 1989 C` u "1
SUBJECT: Request Contra Costa Transportation Authority to Study Feasibility
of Advancing Measure C Funds for I680/24 Interchange Project
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Request Contra Costa Transportation Authority to study the
feasibility of advancing Measure C funds to assure the
continued progress on the I680/Highway 24 Interchange
Improvement Project. Any Measure C funds advanced by the
OCTA for this interchange project will have to be paid back
by the state.
BACKGROUND:
See attached news article and letter from the California
Transportation Commission earlier this year. ,
Unless we take immediate action to find a mechanism to
advance money for the I680/24 Project and be paid back later
by the state, the reconstruction of that interchange will be
delayed for years. Caltrans and Region IV Director Burch
Bachtold have worked diligently to keep the project on its
timetable. However, .the situation created by the state
running out of money is going to cause unacceptable delays
and increased congestion in Contra Costa. It is essential
that we aggressively seek options for keeping this project
moving forward.
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ACTION OF BOARD ON December 19, 1989 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X and OTHER X
Also, REQUESTED input on the proposal from the Regional Committees.
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: CC Trans Auth ATTESTED
Community Development Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
County Administrator Supervisors and County Administrator
M382/7-98 BY ®�� �' ��-�� DEPUTY
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Contra -.Costa Times, December 13, 1989 , front page
1=680 jobs no funding
By Virgil Melbert
cacest Bvreau
SACRAMENTO—Lack of mnn-
/y ey will delay$600 million worh of
' freeway projects, including the first
phase of the interstate 680 widening
+•� _"�/ h in Dublin,Sen Ramon and Danville.
State transportation officials on
f y Thursday will ask the California
Transportation Commission to can-
eel 1107 million worth of pre,�icus!c
1 . approved projects ready to go to
' bid. They include $39.5 miilior, to
�:' �•. " � '{ `' i .'' tt � SS build 15 miles of soundwalls on I.
'�'
`' r } ' 11, i �k, .1 { 680 between Dublin and Rudgear
„4 ti r Road in Walnut Creek.
i + Y ;i. , The soundwalls are the required
first step before the state may pro.
p;, Beed with the $63 million widening
to eight lanes.
At a meeting in San Diego, the
commission also sill consider ap-
proval of 160 projects costing 5140
million. These will be the last that
s- can be built until the state rinds
more money.
Commission Executive Director
Robert Remen said approval of the
t, $140 million will use the last of the
federal highway.funds allocated to
�. California for the 1990-91 fiscal
year.
The approval at includes two
major earthquake-related measures:
a$6.2 trillion strengthening of
the single-column supports on the
Highway 24/1-58011.980 junction in
Oakland.
TUrAgDanaosdtstrauch a$3.1 million to reinforce piers
THIS HIGHWAY W109NING�pprQ�'eot On Interstate 68qq in WaLnl t>K1peK..rill.be,completed;despite'•gevere landing suis. However, at the east end of the Bay Bridge.
similar work In Danville, San'Widh'ind.Dublin is'threaterik tiecatisa of a iaoli of available federal funding. Please see DELAYS,ease?4
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From Page 1 federal funds," Ile said. HIGHWAY STALL
- Normally, the transpor-tation de- 11te existing nine-cents•per-gat-
partment gives the commission a tun gas tax,which is shared with to Because ft has run out of mo *Reconstruction of a frontage
multimillion dollar list of construe- cal governments, has not increased Because
on 1-80 between Universit AV-
don projects ready to go to bid each sitoce 1983.Because of inflation and the state must consider Chan m its Y
month. The slate builds more than reduced gas consumption, the tax highway construction plans.Among $nue end Gilman Street in Berkeley,
$1 billion worth of hi hwa s each the considerations ars: $t•1 $40
g y generates only enough money to Recommended for delay •A s4t�,000 widening of High•
year, largely with federal money pay for maintenance and opera- 0$19.5 million worth of sound- way 4 near Discovery Bay.
matched by approximately 8 per- tlons. walls on 1-680 in Dublin,San Ramon eA$1 million rehabilitation of the
Cent state funds. The Inigest of the projects which and Danville. The state cannot wid. Highway 242-Solano Way under-
"Starting with our January com- Callmns will ask the transpoilatiun en the highway until it builds the cr�A gS n Concord.reconstruction of
mission meeting,no additional allo- commission to shelve Thursday is soundwalls.
cations of federal money can be $43 million worth of work on the Jeopardized the east and west approaches to
made until next June."Remen said. Century freeway in Los AnFeies. 0$16.1 million of 1.680 sound- the Carquinez Bridge on Highway
tie estimated that more than $600 The San Ramon Valley work is the walls and widening between Treat 80.
million worth of projects which are next-largest. Boulevard and Boyd Road iri Pteas- Recommended for approval
designed and ready to go will be Caltrans officials said they have Bill Bill. *Earthquake retrofitting of col-
withheld. not decided which other pending •1500 ramps at Canal Boulevard umn supports on the Highway 24/1-
The Legislature thisyyear sched- projects to cancel as part of the 1n nirtvnond,$600,000. 580/1.980 junction in Oakland.
tiled a nine-cents-per•gallon gas tax $600 million cutback. •Reconstruction of Carquinez a Reinforcing underwater piers at
Incrense for the June 5 primary Many Conlra Costa and Alameda Brictgn, approaches. the east end of the Bay Bridge.
election. The added money would County projects scheduled for a - •1680 soundwalls south of 1.580 e A $200,000 modification of a
be used for transportation projects. proval in the next six months could in Pleasanton,$11 million. curve on Route 4 in Brentwood.
Tf voters fail to approve file gas-tax be delayed.
increase, the construction delay 1'ransportation department east etnl of the Bay Bridge with a the Oakland work in the aftermath
could continue,he said. Voters last spokesman Jim Drago in Sacramen- new layer of concrete. The state of the Oct. 17 earthquake,
year rejected a $1 billion highway to said the two earthquake safety also will reinforce single columns A Brentwood project escaped the
construction bond issue. projects up for approval Thursday supe acing the Highway 24/1-580rt- pending cutback. Up for approval
"We will be faced with choosing were scheduled fur construction be- 990 jnnclion with a half-inch steel Thursday is $2UO,000 to modify a
between funding our regular main- fare the Oct. 17 quake. Jacker. eurvi on Highway 4 in Brentwood.
tenance and operation piugrams or Ile said the state plans to rein- It is "pretty obvious," he said, Several accidents have occurred on
using our money to match available force underwater culumns M the that the state wants to accelerate the curve. ,
DEC — .1 5 - 89 FRI 1 5 : 0 3 S U P V S U N N E M C P E A K
J.T.(TOM)HAWTHORNS,Chairman STATE OF CALIFORNIA GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN
GOVERNOR
JOE DUFFEL,Vice Chairman
WILLIAM T.BAGLEY •', .,'
MARGIE HANDLEY
STANLEY W.HULETT m�w ?c RECEIVED
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KEN KEVORKIAN O,;
WILLIAM E.LEONARD oRN' MAR 17 1989
JOE LEVY - �•
BRUCE NESTANDE = "'�`.= .
CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
1120 N STREET,V.O.BOX 942873
ROBERTS.NIELSEN,Exec,Director SACRAMENTO 94273-0001
(G1 6)445.1690
March 14, 1989 "
Supervisor Sunne McPeak
Contra Costa County
2301 Stanwell Drive
Concord, CA 94520
Dear eak:
This letter follows from the phone conversation you had with our
office yesterday. It explains the current prognosis for the
projects to rebuild the Route 680/Route 24 freeway interchange in
Contra Costa County. The chances that these improvements can be
funded in a timely way are not that good.
The interchange reconstruction will be done in four stages.
Construction has started recently on the first stage, costing about
$15 million. The remaining three stages are in the five year STIP.
Caltrans expects to deliver completed plans, ready to start
construction, on the second and third stages in about June 1990,
for a combined cost of $100 million. Caltrans expects to deliver
completed plans, ready for construction, for the fourth stage in
about August 1991, to cost about $85 million.
As of. about a year ago, Caltrans' project delivery was lagging, and
completed plans were often a year or more late. Recently,
Caltrans' delivery record has picked up, and I am assuming that the
� plans . for this project will come in as now scheduled.
Assuming Caltrans continues to deliver completed plans on schedule
statewide, available funding is becoming a serious problem.
Caltrans expects to bring in $1200 million in completed projects
for funding during Federal Fiscal Year 89 (FFY 89) . The Commission
has available $600 million in federal funding for these projects,
but the State Highway Account has no state revenues available for
the remaining $600 million worth. The Commission will have voted
all of the federal funds for FFY 89 by April 1989, so the remaining
$600 million in projects that come in between April and September
1989 must go on the shelf unfunded.
The same situation is due to occur in FFY 90 and FFY 91, with
Caltrans delivering $1200 million worth of completed projects, the
Commission having $600 million in federal funding for each year,
and the remaining $600 million of project delivery going on the
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Supervisor Sunne McPeak
March 14, 1989
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shelf unfunded, for lack of state revenues. Looking at this
another way, all projects from April. 1989 forward go on the shelf,
which will total $3000 million between now and September 1991.
During that same time, $1200 million in federal funds will become
available, for FFY 90 and FFY 91, and will be used to fund some of
the shelf projects. The remaining shelf projects, estimated to
total $1800 million, will remain on the shelf indefinitely until
new state revenues are provided to fund them.
The Commission does not yet have a policy to define in which order
projects are to be taken off the shelf for funding. The Commission
expects to set up such a policy in the next two or three months.
Because the Route 680/Route 24 interchange projects are to be
funded with interstate completion funding, a relatively high
priority for use of federal funds, Commission policy may turn out
to be favorable for funding these projects. However, I don't want
to pretend to outguess Commission policy that has not been set,
especially since the implications of various policy directions have
not yet been thoroughly examined.
Clearly, the second and third stages (in FFY 90) and the fourth
stage (in FFY 91) of the Route 680/Route 24 freeway interchange
will go on the shelf unfunded when Caltrans completes the plans,
and are at risk of staying on the shelf indefinitely. Since
federal funding for the five years 1987-1991 has already been
specified in the 1987 federal Surface Transportation Act, no more
funding from federal sources can- be expected. Additional state
revenues, or more local funding for STIP projects, are the only
solutions we can foresee to fund the $1800 million in -delivered
projects that will be going on the shelf during the next three
years, and to bail out the state highway program in the long term.
Obviously, any support you can give to legislation that would
provide additional state revenues would be valuable and much
appreciated.
Sincerely,
ROBE . NitLSEN
E cutive Director
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