PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING
Meeting Minutes
Melissa Ashline-Heil, City of
Bradley Birge, City of
Wayne Bonesteel, representing Fred Howard,
Peter Comenzo, Town of
Frank Commisso,
Steve
Feeney,
Rocky
Ferraro, Capital District Regional Planning Commission
Michael Franchini,
Robert Hansen, NYS Department of Transportation Region 1
Steve Iachetta,
Jeff Lipnicky, Town of
Kate Maynard, Town of
Barbara McHugh, Town of
John Poorman, Capital District Transportation Committee
(Secretary)
Paul Reuss,
Tom Richardson, City of
Phil Serafino, representing
Bill Rinaldi, NYS Thruway Authority
Michael Valentine,
STAFF
James Allen, Buckeye
Frank Bonafide, NYS Department of Transportation Region
1
Rich Filkins, NYS Department of Transportation Region 1
David Kahlbaugh, Clough, Harbour Associates
Sandra Misiewicz, Capital
District Transportation Committee
Susan Pedo, NSI
Mike Wieszchowski, Laberge
Group
Geoff Wood, NYS Department of
Transportation Region 1
Cathy Woodruf, Times
VISITORS ISSUES
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Rich Filkens from NYSDOT provided an overview of the
long-range vision and proposed short term
NYSMPO
ASSOCIATION SAFETY ASSESSMENT PROCESS & GUIDELINES
Action Items
ADMINISTRATION
Approval
of the April 29, May 6 and May 13th 2009 Meeting Minutes
The meeting notes from the Planning Committee that
started on April 29th and ended on May 6th meeting were approved.
2009-14 TRANSPORTATION
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM UPDATE
Changes to
Draft Project Listings since
Members were directed to the information that was
previously distributed regarding editorial changes to TIP listings (no action
required) and Corrections to Actions already taken (action required). Each item listed was discussed in turn, and
the description of the TIP action was noted in the distributed material. One additional handout was also distributed
that noted additional editorial changes and corrections to actions already
taken. Additional information about
several of the listings was provided during this discussion:
i.
Roundabouts—The wording
“final design will be determined” will be added to this listing to show that a
non-roundabout intersection project can be funded if AQ benefits result.
ii.
NY 2 Rehabilitation Project—several
issues need to be sorted out regarding this project, but the project will be
added to the TIP with a non-competitive fund source for now.
iii.
New Post Period Projects
(handout)—These projects are shown in the post period with non-competitive fund
sources and are shown to indicate that they are in the set of the “next
projects to go forward” and that CDTC has made a commitment to these projects.
Members approved all of the corrections noted in the
mailout material and in the handout that required Planning Committee approval.
TIP
Update, Schedule and Solicitation Proposal
NYS will not be updating the STIP in 2009, but will be
waiting until 2010 to do so. CDTC has
made a commitment to completing the 2009-14 update, given that much of the work
has already been completed. Staff
suggests that the Planning Committee and Policy Board seriously consider the
following approach or a variation to it as an alternative to completing the
2009-14 TIP in a traditional fashion.
The suggested approach both preserves the value of work completed to
date and also allows CDTC to solicit for the next set of projects with an
adequate amount of time:
1. Estimate a working budget target
for “competitive fund sources” for the 2009 through 2015 programming
period.
2. Undertake a full CDTC TIP
solicitation, evaluation and programming exercise as intended by New
Visions.
3. Amend the current STIP to reflect
the project listings of the 2009-10 and 2010-11 years of the draft 2009-14
TIP. These amendments would give status
to the work done by the Planning Committee over the past six months without
requiring a wholesale adoption of the 2009-14 TIP.
4. Use the draft 2009-14 TIP and the
prioritized list of new projects as the building blocks of a draft 2010-15
TIP.
5. Reconcile the draft to new
legislation, new NYSDOT allocations, etc., and release the draft 2010-15 TIP in
March, 2010.
6. Adopt the 2010-15 TIP in June,
2010 for inclusion in the new STIP.
The Planning Committee embraced this approach and
approved the motion to approve all the changes that have been made to the TIP
so far for presentation to the Policy Board and to reflect the updated TIP in
the last two year’s of the STIP.
Fiscal
Constraint and the 2009-14 TIP Update
A summary was provided in the previously distributed
material that describes the fiscal constraint issues that NYSDOT and CDTC
face. In interest of time, NYSDOT will
meet with CDTC staff to identify actual over/under programmed funding by fund
source.
AMERICAN RECOVERY
Report on
Stimulus Funding and Programming
CDTC has identified $98.1 M in projects eligible for
Stimulus Funds. Projects totaling about $92M
have been certified by the Governor’s office.
Two small projects have been rejected—one in
TIP ARRA
Amendments
Zim Smith Phase 2—members were under the impression that this project was
already added to the TIP, since it was approved for ARRA funding at an earlier
meeting and presented to the Policy Board. Members approved the motion to
include the Zim Smith Phase 2 Project as an amendment to the existing project.
CP Rail Ballston Spa Siding—This project would construct a second main track between
Ballston Spa and
TIGER
Discretionary Grant Program
The ARRA includes a discretionary transit program,
labeled Transportation Investment Generating Recovery (TIGER). The deadline for applications is September 15th. The size for individual projects will range
from $20M to $300M, but not state will receive more than $300M. Geographic balance will be a criteria for
funding awards. It is proposed that the
CDTC put forth the BRT project for consideration, since it meets all the
criteria, and is “shovel ready”.
Discussion about putting forth the statewide canal project and/or the
Downtown Intermodal Station as projects, but only the state can propose the
former, and the Downtown Intermodal Station is not shovel ready. BRT is clearly the strongest candidate, and
submitting a list would dilute the changes for the BRT to be funded. Members approved the strategy to put our best
project forward, which in this case, is the BRT.
TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM AMENDMENTS
SA220—Stewart Dam Bridge over
the Sacandaga and SA221—Geyser Road Bridge over the D&H RR
Both of these projects were deferred to make room for
the
STATUS OF PLANNING
In the interest of time, this agenda item was skipped.
The next Planning Committee meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday August 5th at
There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned
at
Respectfully submitted,
Secretary