Friends of Flagstaff’s Future update for May 15

In This Issue

City Council Members discuss including a Transportation Tax on the 2018 Ballot
Your Input is needed on the Milton Corridor Master Plan
Community Events

City Council members discuss including a Transportation Tax on the 2018 Ballot

Council will be discussing ballot measures for the November 2018 election during several meeting in the next month. Transportation tax proposals have been provided by the Citizens Transportation Tax Commission which includes congestion relief, Lone Tree bridge, and transit components. The tax proposals did not include bond financing for any of the proposed projects. City staff discussed the importance of bond financing the larger capital projects. Bond financing allows the City to complete projects on an accelerated time frame.

Staff will present comparisons of pay as you go financing and bond financing for a major project and annual projects. A major project is one that the City could not deliver on until substantially all the revenues have been realized or available. Annual projects are those that would be equally expensed over the life of the tax.

F3 would like to see this ballot measure include more focus on alternate modes of transportation and address carbon concerns. However, without this tax, the Workforce Housing bond may suffer as transportation infrastructure is an important component of providing more affordable housing.

We would love to hear your feedback or for you to send feedback directly to council,council@flagstaffaz.gov.

Your input is needed on the Milton Corridor Master Plan

On May 10th, ADOT held a meeting about the Milton Corridor Master Plan.

If you missed the meeting you can read more about the proposed potential solutions in thisDaily Sun article or on the ADOT website. You can also check out the analysis work done on the City of Flagstaff Website.

If you have input to share, you can submit comments in the following ways:By email: MiltonProject@mbakerintl.com

In writing: Milton Road Corridor Master Plan, 206 S. 17th Avenue, MD310B, Phoenix, AZ 85007

Community Events

Please join the Flagstaff Trails Initiative on Thursday, May 31st from 4:30 to 6:30pm at Flagstaff City Hall for a Flagstaff Trails Initiative partner mini-workshop. This workshop will recap and build off our work thus far, so consider attending regardless of whether you were able to make the kick off workshop in March.