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Committee forwards 6‑year transportation amendment to full council amid funding gaps
Summary
The Infrastructure Planning and Sustainability Committee voted to send the city’s proposed 2026–2032 six‑year transportation program amendment to the full council after a staff presentation that highlighted new projects and identified roughly $28 million in currently unidentified funding for a large new tree‑canopy project.
The Infrastructure Planning and Sustainability Committee voted April 22 to forward a draft amendment to the city’s six‑year comprehensive transportation improvement program (CTIP) to the full City Council for consideration.
Jennifer Camrazel, workforce transportation manager in Public Works, told the committee that the CTIP is required by state law and must be adopted by July 1. Camrazel said the draft lists 44 projects and highlighted seven proposed additions, including a Tacoma tree‑canopy and street‑landscape project and a Portland/Lincoln Avenue roundabout. For one newly described project Camrazel said total costs were about $38,800,000 and that roughly $28,000,000 of that total remained unidentified in the current draft.
Why it matters: the CTIP is the city’s planning tool for capital transportation projects and is used by the state Department of Transportation and regional partners to coordinate funding. Projects that do not appear in the CTIP or that lack identified funding risk missing competitive regional or state grant cycles.
Camrazel said the city is watching a new PSRC (Puget Sound Regional Council) bridge capital program that could create new funding opportunities for bridge projects and bridge maintenance. She said the CTIP amendment ties project selection to the Transportation and Mobility Plan’s prioritization criteria and that staff review competitiveness when deciding which projects to pursue for grants.
Committee members asked for clarity about whether specific items (for example E 64th Street Phase 3) were in the six‑year list or part of the broader long‑range vision. Camrazel said the seven additions shown in the briefing were the projects proposed for this year’s amendment and that larger planning work remains in other long‑range documents. She noted the CTIP is primarily a planning and budgeting tool and that projects approved in the city’s capital budget typically flow into the CTIP automatically.
A council member moved to forward the draft amendment to the full council for consideration; the committee approved the motion by voice vote with all recorded members saying “aye.” The committee did not identify specific vote tallies for individual members beyond the recorded voice vote.
Next steps: staff said the CTIP recommendation will go to the full council for public hearing and consideration. Camrazel said the timeline would tee the item up for a public hearing and subsequent council meetings so the CTIP can meet the statutory July 1 deadline.
