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Sustainable Mobility and Roadway Transformation Program July 5, 2016 Page 2 • Maintain an excellent pavement network • Protect the recently completed $72+ million pavement investment initiated in 2006 • Repave streets in poor condition in next three to five years • Financially sustainable • Implement citywide traffic safety improvements • Implement bicycle and pedestrian master plans • Repair sidewalks and expand Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) infrastructure SMaRT is a financially sustainable program that will allow the City to address its multi -modal mobility challenges from year to year, without overly relying on inconsistent grant funding or dwindling tax revenue. As part of the program, SMaRT will reconstruct all streets that are in poor or failed condition within the first three to five years and provide the financial means to properly maintain the streets in perpetuity. In order to fund this program, staff proposes to assess pavement impact fees on the heavy vehicles which are considered the single, major source of degredation to the streets. In September of 2015 the Public Works Agency commissioned a report to quantify the impact to city streets caused by heavy vehicles such as City utility, transit, school, and refuse vehicles. The report (Exhibit 1) concluded that these damages have a significant impact to the City's annual pavement deterioration. The damages were allocated to streets based on the street type and configuration, vehicle type and vehicle trip frequency. The study found that solid waste vehicles, transit busses, and City utility /street sweeping vehicles have a 38.1 percent, 12.7 percent, and 2.5 percent impact respectively. Based on these findings, staff is recommending that entities utilizing heavy vehicles fund the cost to repair their proportional share of impact to City streets. ANALYSIS SMaRT will require an estimated $80 million to rehabilitate all streets that are in poor or failed condition within the first three to five years of the program. Once the entire pavement network is in good condition, $16 million per year will be needed to maintain the network effectively. In addition to maintaining the pavement in an excellent condition year to year, the program will also implement traffic safety, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, as well as repair sidewalks and expand infrastructure to meet ADA standards. Therefore, SMaRT will not only address pavement concerns, but will result in the implementation of a significant portion of the Bicycle Master Plan, Pedestrian Master Plan, as well as elements identified in the Safe Mobility Santa Ana and Non - Motorized Connectivity reports. Staff proposes a combination of an I -Bank loan and Certificate of Participation bonds to fund the initial $80 million using the impact fees, gas tax allocations, Measure M2 Fairshare, and funds from the City's general liability fund as shown in the SMaRT Presentation (Exhibit 2). With Council approval to move forward with this comprehensive pavement maintenance program as outlined in the SMaRT Presentation (Exhibit 2), the next step will be to acquire the services of a 65B -2