Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the East Bank Program topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
East Bank program manager proposes neighborhood-by-neighborhood status updates
Summary
Anna presented a plan to give the board recurring, neighborhood-level updates on East Bank projects, highlighting recent planning work, partner agreements, and a proposed status spreadsheet to track project progress and priorities.
Anna presented a proposal to provide the board with recurring updates on each of the five East Bank neighborhoods and walked the board through the Central Waterfront as an example. She said the program now has utility master plans, traffic studies, flood‑plain modeling, stormwater plans, an open‑space and greenway framework, and parking studies that inform project sequencing and priorities.
"The East Bank program is founded in the vision of Imagine East Bank," Anna said, signaling that the vision document adopted in 2022 remains the basis for the authority's ongoing planning. She described a status spreadsheet that will show category, scope, sponsors, anticipated start dates and a weekly red/yellow/green status that staff updates in weekly meetings. Anna told the board the updates could be provided at each meeting or at intervals the board requests and that staff could dig into individual projects on request.
Board members asked that future updates include funding details — where funds are coming from, what is secured, and what has been spent. Anna agreed: "If it's been funded, like, what's secured, what's spent down," she said, and proposed adding broad funding categories and proposed end dates to future neighborhood briefings. The board discussed right‑of‑way and condemnation questions and asked staff to include that detail where relevant.
Next steps: staff will bring the neighborhood update format back for board feedback and can begin providing regular updates, including funding status and timelines, at future meetings.
