§ 748.202. Priority system.

(a)

Establishment. The surplus gas tax funds available for construction of roads are generally insufficient to fund all of the projects contained in the proposed road programs; consequently, the need arises for a method of determining those construction projects that are most needed and can be funded from existing or anticipated revenue sources. The use of a system of priorities is hereby established, so that proposed construction projects can be rated in the order of their importance.

(b)

Priorities. Because the factors taken into account at each stage of the review process are different, the following priority systems are adopted, to be used by the reviewing agencies as indicated:

(1)

The initial priorities to be assigned by the City Highway Engineer in coordination with the Director of Public Works before program coordination are as follows:

Priority	Explanation
1A	Projects under design or construction and/or funds legally committed and still recommended in fiscal year shown
1B	Project urgently needed and recommended in fiscal year shown
2	Not included in the first five years of the program but identified as needed projects contingent upon further development of anticipated need and/or sufficiency of projected funds

 

(2)

J.U.A.T.S. will assign review priorities as follows:

Priority	Explanation
1C	Construction time period (current five-year program)
1D	Design time period (current five-year program)
2	Design and construction time period (beyond current five-year program)
NL	No priority specified

 

(3)

The Planning Commission shall assign the following planning priorities.

Priority	Explanation
1*	Projects which are already under design or construction or for which funds have already been appropriated or authorized and which should be continued in the first year of the proposed plan
1	Projects which are urgently needed, which conform to overall current and projected planning and which should be undertaken in the first year of the projected plan
1A	Projects less urgently needed which should be undertaken in the first year of the plan if funds become available. After all priority 1 projects have been designated, the 1A projects remaining will serve to indicate the necessity for additional funding sources
2	Projects which are needed and conform to overall current and projected planning but which cannot or should not be undertaken in the first year of the proposed plan
3	Projects which propose to meet community needs in a manner which is inconsistent with the five-year short-range development plan and with current evaluations of revenues and fiscal resources
4	Projects which do not address themselves primarily to planning consideration embodied in the five-year development plan, but which are subject to review by the Mayor, the operating department, financial officials and the Council and to possible reclassification to some other priority

 

(4)

Final priorities will be assigned by the Council as follows:

Priority	Explanation
1A	Projects under design or construction and/or funds legally committed and still authorized in fiscal year shown
1B	Project urgently needed and authorized in fiscal year shown
2	Acknowledged as needed projects in the year indicated contingent upon further development of anticipated need and/or sufficiency of projected funds
3	Projects which have been authorized in a prior road program or are proposed in the current program which are abandoned by the Council and shall not be further continued

 

(c)

Priority review. Projects are subject to review under the priority system at least four times in the process of formulating the road program for the ensuing fiscal year. Estimates shall be reviewed and initial priorities assigned by the City Highway Engineer in coordination with the Director of Public Works. The City Highway Engineer shall transmit the proposed road program to the J.U.A.T.S. Technical Coordinating Committee for review and comparison with the master transportation plan for the City, and the Technical Coordinating Committee shall assign review priorities and return the proposed road program, together with its comments, if any, to the City Highway Engineer. The City Highway Engineer shall transmit the proposed road program to the Planning Commission, which shall assign a planning priority to each project during the process of review and coordination without adding any proposed projects, and then return the proposed road program, together with its comments, if any. The Council shall assign final priorities when the road program is adopted, which shall be determinative unless changed by the Council as an amendment to the road program.

(Ord. 78-329-131, § 1; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1)

Note— Former § 620.202.