Are minor repairs, such as pot hole filling and the patch on the Capitol City
Trail, included in the capital budget or the operating budget? I assume
major projects, like the Packers/Northport reconstruction are capital. Yes, the C3k numbers do reflect the agency requests, although
it is interesting that the difference between requests for Bike/Ped and Major
streets is 36% cut versus 17% cut. Are the bike/ped planners more wild and
crazy than the major streets planners? Another interesting number is to
compare what the 2011 budget outlined for 2012 spending versus what the Mayor
has proposed for 2012. In that case, Bike/Ped got cut 65% versus a cut of
14% for Major Streets. It seems that for some reason, the bike and ped
future budget numbers are more fantastic than the major streets numbers – or
is the city government just less responsive to the deficit between projects on
the docket for ped and bike than for those in Major
streets? To answer that question, I looked at the trend from 2006 and
found the following: Comparing the Mayor’s Budget this year to 2006, bike/ped
spending is up 7.5%, and Major Streets is up 25.1%. If I take the
data since 2006 and fit a line, that works out to bike/ped spending having an
annual increase of about 1.1%, and Major streets getting a 7.5% annual
increase. Now the older budgets don’t break out ped/and bike spending
directly, so the bike ped trend needs some revision, but given the data so far,
there quite clearly seems to be greater willingness to up the spending on Major
Streets than for Ped/Bike projects. For that reason, I am inclined to call
the higher “fantasy” factor for ped/bike the result of a relatively
unresponsive city government. From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Brenda Konkel Duh!
Right! I'm guessing you are totally correct. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Robbie Webber <[email protected]>
wrote: After reading both articles on line, I'm going to take a guess. No guarantee
this is correct. The Channel 3000 report says, Departments requested more than $231 million
compared to the $196.5 million the mayor will propose. I'm going to guess that what they mean by that is that the Mayor's budget
contains $6 million less for bicycle and pedestrian projects and programs than
what was proposed by the departments. Now, we both know that many departments over-ask, and none gets what they
really want, even in good years. The amount that departments ask for is a
nonsense number to use in a report like this, but it wouldn't be the first time
a media report was misleading. The Madison.com article reports the levels that were in the Mayor's
budget compared to the approved 2011 budget, a much more meaningful
comparison. Does that make sense? On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Brenda Konkel <[email protected]>
wrote: can anyone
explain the difference between the channel three report of a $6M cut and this
article? This one says there is an increase from $4.1M to 4.4M.
Sorry, don't have to time chase all the details, thought someone on this list
might explain. _______________________________________________
On
Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:39:17 -0500, Robbie Webber
Robbie Webber
From: [email protected]
Date:
Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:56:44 -0500
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Bikies] wait?! Increase in bike funding in cap
budget?
Interesting numbers . . . I'm always interested in that 25%
number and how much of it is repairs and how much is new.
Also, how much of this is driven by the federal funding?
And yes, some
staff are more aggressive than others in their requests. Not sure that is
(or is not) a factor here, but it is a factor city wide.
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:01 AM
To: Robbie
Webber
Cc: [email protected]
Subject:
Re: [Bikies] wait?! Increase in bike funding in cap
budget?
Major streets will see
the biggest hit -- almost $15 million less than what was requested.
Bike and pedestrian projects will also be cut back, at nearly $6
million.
Robbie Webber
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_19d8fc59-cae9-5b35-b0b1-b6971ee880a6.html
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