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Budget Priority Submission Form <br />Finance Committee <br />Due Sep. 12, 2016 <br />Title: Annual allocation to implement Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan <br />Submitted by: Tom Bullock <br />Departments to be involved: Planning, Public Works, Police <br />Potential community partners: Bike Lakewood, Lakewood City School District, LakewoodAlive <br />Which of the following goals does your priority address? Check all that apply <br />Safe & Secure Y", Vibrant Neighborhoods <br />Economic Development ❑ Sound Governance <br />❑ other <br />1. Provide a narrative description of your idea in 250 words or less. Attach a separate sheet if necessary: <br />This proposal is to provide the first annual allocation to implement Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan and thereby <br />to steadily realize its stated goals year -by -year. The finding allocation would pay for three components and <br />exclude a fourth: <br />1. Planning: to pay for design of, collecting public input on, and application to grant funds for bike plan <br />implementation. <br />2. Implementation and Small -Scale Infrastructure: to pay for continued installment of small -but- <br />meaningful bike infrastructure items such as bike parking hitches, repair stations, signage, and enhanced <br />traffic markings (for example, green bike symbols at certain intersections). These kinds of improvements <br />can add up incrementally over time to make a big impact. <br />3. Education, Encouragement & Enforcement ( "EEE "): to pay for safety training and ridership <br />promotion activities. This could also pay for enforcement measures such as increased police presence on <br />bicycles. <br />4. Large -scale Hifrastructure would not be funded from this allocation, since those much larger costs <br />would need to be integrated into other road, striping, and park projects, and since project funding is not <br />allocated on an annual basis. Additional and different proposals would need to be made to implement <br />large -scale infiastructure. <br />2. Briefly explain how this will benefit the community: <br />As stated in the Bicycle Master Plan the benefits of a well- designed bike network are: <br />L Improved Quality of Life <br />2. Efficient and Sustainable Transportation <br />3. Resident Attraction and Retention <br />4. Public Health <br />5. Equity <br />6. Economic Development <br />3. Estimated expense (provide a range): $50,000 - $100,000 <br />Proposal: a $50,000 - $100,000 allocation for 2017, broken out in these components (amounts for subcategories <br />are approximate, not strict allocations, and should be understood to allow flexibility within categories): <br />• Design for Lakewood's bikeway network as a whole and /or for a significant specific project such as <br />north -south connector streets, Lake Avenue, or Riverside Drive. Design includes activities such as <br />11Page <br />