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' ". <br />EXHIBIT 9 <br />' SAMTD Board of Directors <br />'~ ^ ~ October 23,1997 <br />/ Page 3 <br />, <br />~ -- . <br />~ high priority need only by relocating them from lower priority or unnecessary <br />sites. This year's Section 5309 grant included $100,000 toward the purchase <br />of new shelters, which wiil go a long way toward revitalizing our shelter <br />~ program. where adjacent private property owners are willing to ailow us the use <br />of thei~ land for their installatian. Bid speafications have been prepared by <br />staff expects to have the contract award recommendation on your November <br />t or December agenda. The specifications include a full-senrice shelter~ similar <br />to the ones we currently use, as well as a scaled down weather protecction style <br />as per the Board's indicated ooncems for some smaller type shelters. <br />' 10. Staff Commendations...We so often read of the things we do wrong, with little <br />attention to the outstanding job our employees do, that I thought you would be <br />' interested in seeing oommendations which were received by our operators just <br />during the past six weeks. 1 have attached them for your review. <br />' 11. Measure 50 Tax Determination Process.. 4s Board members may know, <br />cuRent fiscal year tax collections will be delayed due to the cumbersome <br />process necessary to establish assessed values and tax rates unde~ Measure <br />50. Where we normally know what our tax oollections will be at about this time <br />~ of year, that deteRnination will probably not be forthooming unt~ mid- <br />December, now. For your information I have attached a copy of the process, <br />tabbed "The Black Box Process° as excerpted from the Oregonian, by which <br />', j individual property taxes and District tax collections will be determined. <br />Although we expect that collections under Measure 50 will be somewhat <br />' greater than unde~ Measure 47, we still have no way of accurately predicting <br />what they may be. <br />12. Courthouse Square Update...Despite the misleading and incorrect headline <br />' on fhe front page of the October 14~' Statesman-Joumal, the transit mall, and <br />all of transiYs space for that matter, is within budget. The project estimates as <br />a whole, Courthouse Square, we~e ove~ budget. The media fails to <br />' understand, or accept, that this is not a"transit mall° project. Transit is only <br />one small portion (28%) of the total project. In addition, they do not understand <br />that there are many more elements to the project budget than just the design <br />' issues; such as peRnits and fees, SDCs, the County's financing costs, <br />environmental issues, architectural and engineering fees, and project <br />management fees, just to name a few (many of which are outside our oo~trol <br />' and add substantially to the costs of the p~oject). In the private sector, the <br />client tums all those issues over to a staff person or the contractor and sits <br />back to watch the project come out of the ground. In the public sector, each <br />t component must have an RFP or bid, each contract award must be reviewed <br />and approved in a public forum, plans and financing must have public hearings <br />(and numerous consultants because we don't carry those kinds of expertise on <br />' our staffs), and the agenaes are continually being second-guessed by the <br />media and the public. In the private sector. when a contractor is removed or a <br />~ redesign is necessary to meet budget requirements, iYs "just good business <br />, sense." When the same thing occurs in the public sector, iYs "a public scandal <br />and another sign of govemment inefficiency." WhaYs wrong with that picture? <br />' 97 <br />