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Public works director: TBD funds improved Shelton’s pavement condition index; renewal on ballot
Summary
Public Works Director Jay Harris reported the 2024 Transportation Benefit District (TBD) annual report, saying the TBD helped raise Shelton’s pavement condition index and that a straight renewal will appear on the August ballot.
Jay Harris, Shelton’s public works director, presented the 2024 Transportation Benefit District (TBD) annual report at the June 17 meeting, saying the TBD — a 0.2% local sales-tax approved by voters in 2015 — has been a major contributor to improved pavement condition and street projects.
Harris said the city’s pavement-condition index (PCI) moved from the mid-60s to the mid-70s after TBD-funded work. He said TBD revenue was about $741,000 in 2024; total TBD-related revenue including interest and returned project savings was roughly $845,000. Harris described a strategy of using TBD dollars to leverage larger grants for arterial and collector projects, citing Olympic Highway North as an example where a relatively small TBD contribution helped secure several million dollars in combined funding.
Harris reviewed recent and planned projects paid wholly or in part with TBD dollars, including Front Street, Capitol Hill paving, a downtown connector, Western Gateway, Pine Street yard reserve (about $2,000,000 currently saved toward a longer-term estimated $6,000,000 maintenance-yard replacement), and safe-routes-to-school crossings. He noted that maintenance activities supported by TBD funds include sweeping, mowing, pothole patching, signal maintenance and sidewalk work. Harris said a West Mountain View overlay project with Mason County is scheduled around July 15 and that a straight renewal of the TBD will appear on the August ballot (no rate increase; just renewal).
Council members asked technical questions about how much a 0.1% increase would generate (Harris estimated roughly $370,000) and whether PCI would rise further under current funding (Harris said the PCI should hold steady in the mid-70s but likely would not reach the 80s without additional revenue). Harris offered tours of public-works facilities to council members and staff.
The council did not take any immediate vote on TBD policy at the meeting; the renewal was described as a straight renewal on the ballot.
