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Metro officials report early progress, staffing and $104M in early spending for Choose How You Move
Summary
City staff updated the Sustainability Advisory Committee on staffing, vendor contracts and an October $104 million cash drawdown to fund sidewalks, signals, service upgrades and safety projects under the Choose How You Move program; officials said Journey Pass has enrolled over 4,200 residents to date.
Kendra, acting program director for the mayor’s Choose How You Move implementation office, told the Sustainability Advisory Committee that the referendum-backed program has moved from planning into early delivery, with staffing, vendor contracts and a cash drawdown to accelerate construction.
"It is by far the largest capital project that we have implemented as a city," Kendra said, summarizing the program’s scale after reminding the group that the referendum included about $3,100,000,000 in capital projects and more than $100,000,000 in annual operating expenses.
Why it matters: City leaders said the supplemental budget and cash drawdown are intended to fund a mixture of shovel-ready projects to show early progress and to seed planning for larger corridor investments. Kendra said those early investments also aim to build internal capacity and coalesce departments around…
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