Fiscal Year 2011-2012 Adopted Budget - County of Sonoma

TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS
Phillip Demery, Director
The Recommended Road Maintenance budget for FY 11-12 totals $22.6 million dollars and includes $4.2 million in General Fund
contribution. Included in the requested appropriations are $5.2 million for a federally funded pavement preservation contract on the
priority road system, $1.1 million for the annual liability insurance premium, $760,000 for an outside contractor to repair a slide on Fort
Ross Road funded entirely with federal and state emergency relief dollars, and $500,000 of the General Fund contribution to be used for
compliance with National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements. The approximate $15 million in remaining
appropriations will be used by TPW staff to maintain and repair the vast network of County maintained roads, signals, signs, street
lights, and bridges.
The Recommended Road Division Capital Project expenditures for FY 11-12 total $13.4 million and include the construction, design,
environmental review, and right-of-way acquisition of various projects as listed in the appendix following this narrative. These projects
are funded by various state and federal dollars, matched with local funds from Measure M, Proposition 1B and Traffic Mitigation Fees.
Integrated Waste (Refuse) Division (IWD): This enterprise fund finances integrated waste management activities throughout the
county. The IWD will continue to provide solid waste management services at four rural transfer stations (Annapolis, Guerneville,
Healdsburg, and Sonoma) and at the Central Transfer Station. In addition, landfill operations are anticipated to continue through the end
of FY 11-12 while IWD waits for a decision on the long-term permit application submitted to CalRecycle(formerly known as California
Integrated Waste Management Board.). IWD will also continue to regulate franchise agreements for refuse collections in the
unincorporated areas of the county.
Airport Division: The Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport will continue to provide services to airline passengers and aircraft
operators for business, recreational, law enforcement, emergency medical and fire-fighting purposes. The division will maintain a
facility with over 1,000 acres with more than 10 miles of runways and taxiways, 489 based aircraft, covered storage for 367 aircraft, and
uncovered tie-down spaces for 120 aircraft.
Transit Division: Provide a fixed-route bus service covering over 390 square miles, and Paratransit (ADA) service. Through
cooperative funding agreements with the cities of Cloverdale, Healdsburg, Windsor, Sebastopol, Sonoma, Rohnert Park, Cotati, and
Petaluma, Sonoma County Transit provide a network of fixed routes consisting of 7 local, 13 inter-city, 2 commute, and 1 seasonal
serving the Sonoma Coast.
Northern Air Pollution Control District: Continue to provide services that support the prevention of emission of air pollutants from
"stationary sources” in the northern air basin in the county, through enforcement of rules and regulations enacted by the district’s Board
of Directors, the Board of Supervisors. District resources will continue to respond to specific community concerns about air pollution
through study or mitigation projects and community outreach.
Reductions
The proposed reductions within the Road Division are listed in first and second level groupings. The first group can be implemented
with manageable impacts to core services, while the second group of reductions has significant impacts to core services.
• Elimination of financial support of crossing guard services for five local school districts, Mark West, Forestville, Sonoma Valley,
Petaluma and Roseland, totaling $22,000 annually. This function does not align with the core mission of the department, is not a
required function of the division and cannot be financed with road funds.
• Reassignment of Senior Engineer to a Part-time Pavement Preservation Manager as well as a Part-time administrator for water and
lighting districts in order to allow for additional reimbursable work opportunities. This change will mean less time to: investigate new
paving products and processes, complete grant applications and locate additional funding opportunities that could assist road funding.
• Reflecting a reduction in fully funded construction projects the department will employ extra help construction services on an as
needed basis.
• This proposed group of reductions totaling $840,000 will programmatically impact Road Maintenance. It consists of deleting staffing
resources, as well as associated reductions of road materials and equipment rental. These significant program reductions will further
limit the department’s ability to maintain the roads.
• The current budget only includes $52,000 for the deconstruction of the crossings at Asti and Vacation Beach after summer of 2011.
However the crossings reconstruction is still pending on finding additional funding sources.
Strategic Plan Focus Area
Safe, Healthy & Caring Communities
o Roads Division-The department has prioritized the most significant 150 miles of roads and is developing a preservation plan in
order to keeps these roads in good condition. In order to have enough funding to continue to maintain the remaining roads for
safety, the department plans to convert 100 miles of roadway to “minimum maintenance” roads per Streets and Highways Code
County of Sonoma
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Development Services