SUBJECT: CONSENT
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A Resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Erie Approving an Intergovernmental Agreement With Adams County, Boulder County, City and County of Broomfield, City of Brighton, City of Lafayette and City of Thornton to Share the Costs for the Preliminary and Environmental Engineering and Design of Colorado State Highway 7 and Provide Funding for the Same in the Amount of $21,000
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
PRESENTER: Todd Fessenden, Public Works Director
FISCAL INFORMATION:
Cost as Recommended: $ 21,000
Balance Available: $ 250,000
Budget Line Item Number: 300.70.110.605000
New Appropriation Required: No
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve and have Mayor Carroll execute the IGA for SH7 P.E.E. and direct appropriate staff to expend budgeted funds.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
Erie is a partner in the State Highway 7 Coalition. Other agencies include; Adams and Boulder County, the cities of Brighton, Thornton, Boulder, Lafayette, and City & County of Broomfield. The coalition has obtained commitment of $8 million in Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) funding towards a Preliminary and Environmental Engineering (P.E.E.) study and is looking to the members to close a $1 million gap. Erie’s contribution is the smallest of the various organizations at $21,000.
Background:
The communities along the corridor have been working with CDOT, actively planning and investing local dollars to develop a robust multimodal corridor since 2014 including the completion of two Planning & Environmental Linkage studies (2014 & 2018) spanning from 75th Street in Boulder County to US-85 in Brighton, as well as City of Boulder’s East Arapahoe Transportation Plan (2018), I-25/SH-7 Mobility Hub Concept Design (CDOT 2018), SH-7 Bus Rapid Transit Feasibility Study (2019), and SH-7 Station Area Design (2019).
The SH-7 corridor between Boulder and Brighton is one of the major east/west regional arterials in the North Denver Metro Region. It is anticipated that by 2040 there will be 56,000 new residents and 38,000 new jobs on the corridor for a total of approximately 94,000 new residents and employees traveling on the corridor, a 44% increase from 2015 population and jobs. Rapid growth along the corridor that was previously undeveloped is generating significant increases in travel along the corridor, resulting in new safety and reliability challenges today and in the future.
SH-7 Coalition is leveraging $4 million of DRCOG TIP funds, $4 million in sub-regional funds from Adams County, Boulder County and City & County of Broomfield, $1 million in local funds from all eight communities from Brighton to Boulder and $1 million of CDOT funds to initiate preliminary & environmental engineering. CDOT Region 1 will be the lead on this Project with support from Region 4 and in coordination with RTD and all local jurisdictions.
This Project will take the recommendations from the previous studies and develop preliminary plan packages that will allow municipalities, counties, agencies, and developers to rapidly invest into the corridor to implement the transportation recommendations. Specific elements will include the following:
○ Initiate preliminary engineering for the corridor. The Project will seek to achieve a sufficient level of design for specific projects on the corridor to allow for efficient project implementation and will identify priority projects from the plans to take to a higher level of design for accelerated investment.
○ Environmental engineering will be initiated and necessary environmental clearances will be identified.
○ Right-of-way (ROW) needs will be identified for the extent of the corridor allowing the responsible municipalities, counties, developers, and agencies to acquire and preserve the land necessary to build the corridor transportation improvements identified in the PELs and EATP. Some ROW may be acquired with funds, as necessary.
○ Utilities identification will be completed as needed.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Resolution
2. Intergovernmental Agreement