Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JANUARY 17, 2024
Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE PLANNING MAJOR PROJECTS STATUS REPORT
Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
RECEIVE AND FILE Countywide Planning & Development Major Projects Status Report.
Issue
ISSUE
Countywide Planning and Development’s major projects status report provides highlights of capital projects in the planning phases of development. These include transit corridor projects such as rail and bus rapid transit, Measure M active transportation corridor projects, and highway projects.
Background
BACKGROUND
Metro’s mission is to provide a world-class transportation system that enhances the quality of life for all who live, work, and play within Los Angeles County. Countywide Planning and Development (CPD) oversees the planning of major capital projects to support this mission. The attached Project Status Report (Attachment A) provides an update on the planning progress of Metro’s four Pillar Projects -- West Santa Ana Branch, Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2, C (Green) Line Extension to Torrance, and Sepulveda Transit Corridor, as well as other corridor projects in transit and active transportation. In addition, the quarterly report also includes major highways and complete streets projects in various stages of development.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
The status report provides a quarterly update on major projects as they advance through alternatives and feasibility analyses, technical analyses for environmental certification, selection of preferred projects, cost estimation and funding development, and evaluation of project delivery method. Following environmental planning milestones, projects typically transition from CPD to Program Management and are included in the Program Management Major Project Status report, provided on a quarterly basis to the Metro Board’s Construction Committee.
Additionally, this quarter’s report includes a response to Board Motion #18 by Directors Horvath, Bass, Yaroslavsky, Butts, and Najarian (Attachment B) that passed at the October 2023 meeting. The motion was related specifically to the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project and an adjacent Metro project, the I-405 ExpressLanes Project, and directed staff to report back to the Board in January 2024 on funds budgeted and expended for both projects.
Contract values and total expenditures through October 2023 are provided below, accompanied by brief descriptions of contract arrangements and scopes of services for the two Projects, respectively.
Expenditures for environmental support are consistent with the type of expenditures required for an environmental of this magnitude in terms of area of coverage based on length and type of project. Additional coordination is necessary to support the PDA process but the early extensive coordination and engineering on alternatives in the Planning phase should result in schedule savings in the final engineering and construction phases resulting in costs savings.
The new PDA process was created to focus engineering and design efforts earlier in the planning process to achieve cost and schedule savings during final design and construction. The current PDA efforts on engineering and financial analysis to support the environmental document and to prepare a competitive financial program is typical of engineering efforts at this level of design considering the magnitude of the project in terms of length, terrain and technologies being evaluated. Similar to the environmental process, these early efforts to support planning and decision making are anticipated to result in schedule savings in the final engineering and construction phases resulting in costs-savings.
Environmental, Traffic & Revenue and outreach expenditures for the I-405 ExpressLanes project are consistent with similar efforts currently underway in Southern California including the I-10 ExpressLanes Extension project. Given the length and complexity of the corridor, the cost associated with each contract is fair and reasonable.
Sepulveda Transit Corridor - Contract Values and Expenditures through October 2023
|
Metro Department |
Consultant Services |
Contract Amount(s) |
Expended to Date |
Completed |
|
Countywide Planning |
Environmental Support |
$58,701,568 |
$28,403,540 |
48% |
|
Customer Experience |
Community Relations Support |
$3,514,928 |
$1,284,654 |
37% |
|
Program Management |
PDA - LASRE |
$63,605,132 |
$30,042,256 |
47% |
|
Program Management |
PDA - STCP |
$72,607,815 |
$34,042,256 |
47% |
|
Program Management |
Common Services / Geotech |
$23,210,672 |
$13,906,204 |
60% |
|
Program Management |
Program Management Support Services |
$36,064,698 |
$12,627,643 |
35% |
|
Office of Strategic Innovation |
Financial Consultants |
$8,338,529 |
$5,784,165 |
69% |
|
External Legal Counsel |
Legal Support |
$1,225,000 |
$1,070,842 |
87% |
|
Total |
$267,268,342 |
$127,161,930 |
48% |
I-405 ExpressLanes Project - Contract Values and Expenditures through October 2023
|
I-405 Sepulveda Pass ExpressLanes Contracts |
Contract Amount(s) |
Expended to Date |
Completed |
|
WSP - PA/ED & ConOps |
$27,494,005 |
$13,454,843 |
48.9% |
|
Arelleno Associates - Outreach |
$1,151,949 |
$528,400 |
45.9% |
|
CDM Smith - Traffic & Revenue Investment Grade |
$1,455,719 |
$1,178,073 |
80.9% |
|
Total |
$30,101,673 |
$15,161,686 |
50% |
Equity_Platform
EQUITY PLATFORM
This report is provided on a regular basis and includes updates for multiple projects, including equity assessments. Equity assessments for all reports in this quarterly update were previously provided as baseline summaries and found no unmitigated project equity impacts. There are no updates or changes to those project equity assessments this quarter.
Implementation_of_Strategic_Plan_Goals
IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
The development of projects included in this report supports Strategic Plan Goal #1 by delivering high quality mobility options that enable people to spend less time traveling.
Next_Steps
NEXT STEPS
Staff will continue to advance these projects through the planning phases. The next quarterly update will be provided in April 2024.
Attachments
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A - Project Status Report
Attachment B - Board Motion #18
Prepared_by
Prepared by:
Nelli Derderian, Director, (213) 418-3246
Michelle Smith, Executive Officer, (213) 418-3467
Allison Yoh, Executive Officer, (213) 922-4812
Avital Barnea, Senior Executive Officer, (213) 547-4317
David Mieger, Senior Executive Officer, (213) 922-3040
Mat Antonelli, Deputy Chief Program Management Officer,
(213) 893-7114
Reviewed_By
Reviewed by: Ray Sosa, Chief Planning Officer, (213) 922-2920
