Vote: approved

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38. BUDGET ADJUSTMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Pursuant to A.R.S. 42-17106 (B), approve an amendment to the current FY2009-2013 five-year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) in the Public Works Department of Transportation (910) Transportation Capital Projects Fund (234), Year 1 (FY 2008-09) by decreasing the capital budgets for the following projects: Transportation Administration (TADM) Bin by $900,000. County Arterials (ARTS) Bin by $4,500,000. And, adjusting the following projects by increasing the FY2008-2009 (Year 1) capital budget for: Bridge Preservation (BRIG) Bin by $3,000,000. Partnership Support (PSUP) Bin by $900,000. Traffic Improvements (TIMP) Bin by $1,500,000. The requested adjustment is necessary to realign project budgets to more closely match year-end projected expenditure amount. These adjustments result in a net impact of zero and do not change the duly adopted budget as approved by the Board of Supervisors. In order to make the Department of Transportation Budget more administratively manageable, all MCDOT projects are placed into one of 12 Project “Bins” as follows: Transportation Administration, County Arterials , Bridge Preservation, Planning, Dust Mitigation, Partnership Support, Intelligent Transportation Systems, MAG ALCP Projects, Pavement Preservation, Right-of-Way, Safety Projects, and Traffic Improvement. For the reasons below, MCDOT requests permission to move excess funds from some Bins to cover emerging needs in others. From: County Arterials (ARTS) Project Bin, Job Number T083, MC 85: Cotton Lane – Estrella Parkway and Job Number T113, MC 85: 91st Avenue – 75th Avenue both have delays in right of way acquisitions for FY 2008-09. To: Bridge Preservation (BRIG) Project, Job Number T180, Cotton Lane Bridge at the Gila River has the final construction payment in FY09. Partnership Support (PSUP) Project Bin, Job number T087, Queen Creek Road : Arizona Avenue – McQueen Road has increased construction costs. Traffic Improvements (TIMP) Project Bin, has seven jobs with cost carry-overs from FY08 as well as two new traffic intersections that have met warrants requiring designs to be completed in FY 2008-09. These projects are located in Supervisor Districts: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (C-91-09-113-M-00)