75A - BUDGET FY 2010- 2011 - EXHIBIT

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Improve Transportation Infrastructure The improvement of arterial streets has always been a priority for the City, and this continues in FY 2010 -2011 with over $53 million in capital improvement program funding. Great strides are continuing to be made for the residential streets as well. FY 2010 -2011 is the final year of the Residential Street Repair Program. Major funding for this program is made available through CDBG revenues at the Federal level, Gas Tax revenues at the State level and through the issuance of $60 million in Gas Tax Revenue Certificates of Participation (COP) in December 2007. Programs for FY 2010 -2011 that will improve the City's transportation infrastructure include the following: • The Residential Street Repair Program, the City's three -year $72 million investment in residential streets will utilize $10 million in COP funding in FY 2010 -2011. The total budget for Residential Street Repair this next year is $10.9 million. The original estimate for the program was to repave 100 miles of residential streets in five years. Thanks in part to the innovative use of the cold in -place recycling and full depth reclamation pavement technologies, the current estimate is that the Project Restore budget will enable 260 miles of streets to be repaved, or 100% of the asphalt residential roads in our community. The project is now expected to be completed in three years, or by the first quarter of 2011, almost two years ahead of schedule. • Considerable progress has been made on the $225 million Bristol Street Widening Project from Warner Avenue to 17th Street. Phase I between McFadden and Pine is under construction and will be complete in September 2010. In FY 2010 -2011, the City will move forward with construction of the Bristol /17th and Bristol /Warner intersection widening projects, along with design and property acquisitions for Phase II between Third Street and Civic Center Drive. Construction for Phase II is scheduled for FY 2011- 2012. Also in FY 2010 -2011, the revalidation of the environmental documents for Phase III from Civic Center to 17th and Phase IV from Warner to St. Andrews is underway to position these phases for future federal funding. • Design of the Alton Avenue Overcrossing at the State Route 55 Freeway is ongoing, with an additional $300,000 budgeted in FY 2010 -2011, Additional arterial improvements identified in the proposed budget include $6.4 million for the rehabilitation of Broadway from Anahurst to First, Broadway from Civic Center to Santa Clara, Chestnut from Standard to Elk, First from Grand to Interstate 5 Freeway, Hazard from Harbor to Euclid and Raitt from Warner to St. Gertrude. In addition, funding is included to design several minor arterial streets to position the City for a future Jobs Bill requiring "shovel ready" projects. • The City's "Go Local" Transit Study, which will result in the establishment of a local transit system connecting the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center with the Civic Center and the Pacific - Electric Right of Way to Garden Grove, has received Phase II funding approval from the Orange County Transportation Authority. Preliminary design and environmental analyses will start for this important transit project in FY 2009 -2010. IN:M