1 Sound Transit Citizen Oversight Panel Meeting Summary February ...

and that it is all there.
Capital budgets can be tricky and underspending in a given year is very common.
On page 3, the new statement regarding Board engagement is much more constructive
than the earlier draft.
On page 11, the table needs an explanatory statement about the use of the term “forecast.”
Should there be a sentence added in the report to say that COP is considering a task force
to review multiple years of Sound Transit performance? The chair and vice chair are still
considering options for the scope of such a task force and will bring back a
recommendation to a future meeting.
Members decided to add a sentence to the cover letter and to the body stating that COP
was considering creating a task force.
Kathy Elias explained that the table on page 10 showing subarea reserves may have been a
miscommunication with staff. Pending a conversation with Finance, that table might be changed
or deleted from the report.
The report as amended was moved, seconded and approved unanimously.
Members next discussed the presentation on East Link:
The basic logic of which contracting model to use for each segment can be described as:
design-bid-build for straightforward, low risk construction; GC/CM for more complex
construction with unknowns and more value engineering needed and tighter risk
management; the design-build model is also for fairly straightforward projects where a
high degree of control by the owner is not needed.
ST recently sent five persons to a training on GC/CM and appears to be interested in
building the agency’s staff capacity to manage these types of contracts.
Member Reports
Dave Russell reported that he attended a forum on TOD and joint development best
practices. FTA regional administrator Rick Krochalis was one of the presenters as were
staff from ST, King County and Portland.
Harold Wirch reported that route 511 continues to be overcrowded in the peak.
Aubrey Davis reported that he attended the Mercer Island WSDOT public meeting on
tolling I-90. Mercer Islanders do not want tolls.
Josh Benaloh said he attended the Bellevue version of the tolling meeting where the
citizens were not quite as vociferous. He also attended a meeting on the status of the SR
520 bridge construction. It is not well recognized that the new bridge does not touch
down on the west end with all six lanes.
Next Meeting
The next COP meeting was set for February 21, 2013, 8:30 to 11:00 am.
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