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23,782 - General Transportation Revenue Reduction Service Area Public Works DCA Priya Dhanapal Bureau Name Portland Bureau of Transportation Director Millicent Williams Funding Type Name Reduction Status: Recommended Package Desc Expense Recommended Total The package includes reductions in services to balance to a projected $37.9 million shortfall in Capital Outlay $0 General Transportation Resources (GTR). This amounts to a 51% reduction to programs that are Contingency $6,737,935 eligible to be reduced. This shortfall is driven by several factors, including:

  1. Lower revenue projections - $8.4 million External Materials and Services ($24,643,172)
  2. Higher Citywide administrative charges - $10.3 million Internal Materials and Services ($2,503,595)
  3. Higher costs of ADA curb ramp program - $8.8 million
  4. Higher costs for homeless campsite cleanup efforts - $4.8 million Personnel ($17,477,090)
  5. Increased subsidy for Portland Permitting & Development functions - $4.2 million
  6. Increased personnel costs - $1.5 million ($37,885,922) Revenue Recommended Total The reductions below total $46.3 million as it is necessary to reduce higher amounts of support services to net the necessary GTR savings due to the funding model for these activities. The Beginning Fund Balance ($37,885,922) reductions impact all activities that are not revenue generating or required by Council direction, existing contracts, or legal settlements. The reductions also include the elimination of 138 positions. Miscellaneous Fund Allocation $0 Service Impacts ($37,885,922)

Street maintenance efforts would be reduced to utility cut restorations and some minimal pothole repairs. There would be no other pavement repairs outside of Fixing Our Streets paving projects. ($7.6M and 25 positions) Signals/Streetlight crews would be able to respond to emergency signal outages only. Maintenance on signals would be break/fix only and may be significantly delayed. If a streetlight falls down, it will be removed but not replaced. ($4.6M and 9 positions) Support services such as finance, technology, employee support, equity, communications, government relations, and facilities management would see reductions of over 50%. The bureau would experience extensive delays in payments to vendors and grant billings, limited ability to respond to constituents or elected officials, longer recruitment timelines, inability to analyze data to make strategic decisions, failures in our technology systems that manage our project delivery and work order activities, elimination of equity initiatives, and decreased safety programming. ($13.8M and 50 positions) Significant reductions to planning and project development activities leading to less revenue received by the bureau for investments in new assets and safety improvements. Eliminates bureau’s ability to plan for future grant opportunities that support major infrastructure projects and reduces services for regional collaboration on projects. ($3.6M and 12 positions) Eliminates Active Transportation and Quick Build programming. Quick Build funding is allocated to address immediate small safety improvements on our streets. ($1.3M and 10 positions) Eliminates all permit subsidies for special events and street closures. This includes subsidies for the Rose Parade and other community building activities in our streets. ($0.9M and 0 positions) Street cleaning and vegetation management staff would be reduced to a level that could minimally respond to deicing events and removal of vegetation that blocks street signs. ($4.0M and 8 positions) Eliminates ability to respond to concrete street and sidewalk repair requests. Eliminates preventative maintenance on bridges and reduces service levels to break/fix only. May also eliminate guardrail, stairway, and other structures maintenance. ($1.5M and 3 positions) Eliminates the bureau’s ability to explore new parking meter/permit districts. Also reduces maintenance of parking meters. ($2.0M and 6 positions) Eliminates all cleaning and repair of catch basins which will result in additional localized flooding at many intersections. ($2.8M and 11 positions) Eliminates 51% parking district shared revenue program and captures all revenue from district surcharges for other bureau needs. ($2.0M and 0 positions) Eliminates ability to respond to traffic safety requests (calls to 823-safe will not be addressed). ($0.5M and 4 positions) Eliminates Derelict RV program. Staff will be reassigned to meter citation duties. ($1.7M and 0 positions) Equity Impacts With the need to identify $37.9 million in reductions, managers were required to mitigate the negative impact of reductions on equity outcomes. Wherever possible, they were advised to minimize these cuts and/or take deeper cuts elsewhere to preserve or allow for investment in equity work. With this budget equity guidance, reduction options were reviewed using the following criteria: • Impact on high equity areas • Understanding and addressing barriers and disparate impacts • Community access and partnership • Disability access • Contract equity • Workforce development Despite careful consideration for equity in our decision-making process and efforts to minimize impacts as much as possible, reductions of this magnitude will impact core services for all Portlanders, including those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, from immigrant and refugee communities, as well as people with disabilities.

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