2020-54 - Council Budget Priorities FY2021

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2020 Council Budgettriority Submission Form for consideration as part of the 2021 Budget Finance Committee Due date: Monday August 31, 2020 Title of Project or Policy Priority: Implement Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan Submitted by: Tom Bullock City Departments to be involved: Planning, Public Works, Police Potential community partners: Bike Lakewood, Lakewood City School District, LakewoodAlive Which of the Community Vision focus areas does your priority address? Check all that apply: Commercial Development ❑✓ Safety Housing � Mobility Community Wellness � Education &Culture 1. Provide a brief narrative description of your idea: This proposal is to continue an annual allocation to implement Lakewood's Bicycle Master Plan and thereby to steadily realize its stated goals year -by -year. The funding allocation would pay for three components and exclude afourth: 1. Planning: to pay for design of, collecting public input on, and application to grant funds for bike plan implementation. 2. Implementation and Small -Scale Infrastructure: to pay for continued installment of small -but -meaningful bike infrastructure items such as bike parking hitches, repair stations, signage, and enhanced traffic markings (for example, green bike symbols at certain intersections). These kinds of improvements can add up incrementally overtime to make a big impact. 3. Education, Encouragement & Enforcement ("EEE"): to pay for safety training and ridership promotion activities. This could also pay for enforcement measures such as increased police presence on bicycles. 4. Large-scale infrastructure (such as Hilliard Boulevard striping) would not be funded from this allocation, since those much larger costs would need to be integrated into other road, striping, and park projects, and since project funding is not allocated on an annual basis. Additional and different proposals would need to be made to implement large-scale infrastructure. 2. Briefly explain bow this will benefit the community: As stated in the Bicycle Master Plan the benefits of a thoughtful bike network and plan are: • Improved Quality of Life • Efficient and Sustainable Transportation • Resident Attraction and Retention • Public Health • Equity • Economic Development 3. Estimated expense (provide a range): Budget up to $100,000 for signage and wayfinding treatment across Lakewood &for safety trainings 4. If applicable, describe any past proposals or discussions that are related to this priority. Continuation of unambitious support for Bicycle Master Plan implementation annually for the last decade. .3. If applicable, describe any preliminary discussions you have had with colleagues, the administration and/or your constituents about this priority. City Council has discussed and affirmed support for bicycle infrastructure and safety training many times throughout the year.