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Tigard City Council Considers Adoption of a Street Maintenance Fee

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	City of Tigard 13125 SW Hall Blvd. Tigard, Oregon 97223	Press Release November 10, 2003
For Immediate Release
Contact:	Agustin P. Duenas, P.E. City Engineer City of Tigard 503-639-4171, x2470 gus@tigard-or.gov

Tigard City Council Considers Adoption of a Street Maintenance Fee
The Tigard City Council will consider adoption of an ordinance to establish a Street Maintenance Fee for the City of Tigard at the Council meeting on November 18, 2003. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 PM in Town Hall within Tigard City Hall. Council will conduct a public hearing to receive public comments prior to taking action on the proposed ordinance.

The fee is based on an approach that links the rates to the City's long-term street maintenance program. It assigns responsibility for the arterials to the non-residential uses, splits the costs for collectors between residential and non-residential uses, and assigns responsibility for the neighborhood routes and local streets to the residents.

The key concepts in the proposed Street Maintenance Fee are as follows:

Ties the street maintenance element of the fee to a 5-year maintenance and reconstruction plan prepared by the City of Tigard
Uses actual road repair projects
Tailors the fee to the local data
Sets a target revenue goal of $800,000 annually
Allocates the costs of the arterial projects to the non-residential uses
Splits the costs for the collectors on a 50-50 basis with residential and non-residential uses sharing the costs equally
Allocates the costs for neighborhood routes and local streets to residential uses
Uses the minimum parking space requirements based on the Tigard Development Code for non-residential uses with a 5-space minimum and 200-space maximum. Allocates the costs for residential uses on a per unit basis for both single family and multifamily units. This approach takes into account businesses that draw from a larger area than just Tigard.
Sets the rate for the first three years based on a 5-year average of the projects to be implemented. Includes a review of the program after three years and re-establishes the rate at that time based on a 5-year plan that adds three more years to the program.

The City�s 5-year street maintenance plan is still in the process of being updated. Hence, the rates to be charged would not be finalized until early 2004. If Council adopts the ordinance establishing the fee on November 18th, the resolution to set the rates would most likely be submitted for Council consideration in February 2004. The residential rates are expected to be between $2.00 and $3.00 monthly. Non-residential rates are expected to be between $0.50 and $1.00 per parking space per month.

Actual implementation of the fee is expected to commence in April 2004. This would allow City of Tigard staff sufficient time to set up the fee collection structure and do the necessary work to ensure that the amounts can be incorporated on the utility bills without a glitch in the billing process.