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Agenda Item # 11

  Date: December 22, 2005
  Committee Meeting Date: January 13, 2005
  Board Meeting Date: N/A
  ACTION    ___      DISCUSSION   ___ INFO   X

BOARD MEMORANDUM

TO: Technical Advisory Committee
 Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
 Board of Directors
  
THROUGH:Peter M. Cipolla
 General Manager
  
FROM:Carolyn M. Gonot
 Chief Development Officer
  
SUBJECT: Freeway Litter Control and Replacement Landscaping Program: Proposed Study

FOR INFORMATION ONLY

At the December 9, 2004 meeting, the VTA Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) requested that VTA initiate a study investigating the potential of developing a countywide freeway litter control and replacement landscaping program.   Attachment A is the proposed outline of the scope of work for the study, which VTA staff will discuss with the TAC at its January meeting.

Attachment A

SANTA CLARA COUNTY ROADSIDE BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM DRAFT INITIAL STUDY SCOPE 

I.  Study Scope

    A.  Potential Program Areas 

         1.  Litter

         2.  Landscape Maintenance

   B.  Geographic Coverage

         1.  Freeways

II.  Existing Conditions

     A.  Sources of the Litter Problem

     B.  Develop roadside inventory

          1.  Mainline + off & on-ramps

     C.  Inventory resources current being expended

          1.  Current Standards (Current Level of Maintenance from Caltrans)

          2.  Caltrans’ annual expenditures & person hours

          3.  County & City expenditures & person hours

          4.  Resources (financial and labor) provided by other sources (e.g.: Adopt-a-Freeway program, enforced Community Service, etc.)

III.  Analysis

     A.     Determine and define desired standard

             1.  Is the standard visual or a level of effort?

     B.      Determine resources needed to achieve standard

              1.  How much will it cost to reach standard

              2.  Ongoing maintenance costs?

              3.  Are there already dedicated resources that could be deployed more effectively?

     C.     Estimate average “unit cost” of providing service

              1.  Define “unit”

IV.  Implementation

      A.    Review and discuss potential institutional arrangements

             1.  Pay Caltrans directly?

             2.  VTA contracts for service countywide?

             3.  Another agency contracts for entire county?

             4.  Each City and the County contract separately?

             5.  Other?   What else should this program include?

 

Prepared by: Marcella M. Rensi, Principal Transportation Planner
  

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