Metro - File #: 2016-0161

• File #: 2016-0161
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Filed
• File created: 2/16/2016
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 3/16/2016
• Final action: 3/17/2016
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE report on Metro's FY17 Budget status update including service levels for Metro Bus and Rail and response to Board inquiries.
• Sponsors: Finance, Budget and Audit Committee
• Indexes: Advertising, Azusa, Blue Line Improvement, Budget, Budgeting, Gold Line Foothill Extension 2A, Informational Report, Metro Blue Line, Metro Gold Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail L Line, Outreach, Pasadena, Santa Monica, State Of Good Repair, Technical Advisory Committee, Westside Cities subregion, Westside/Central Service Sector

Date	Action By	Action	Result
3/17/2016	Executive Management Committee

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MARCH 17, 2016


Subject/Action
SUBJECT: FISCAL YEAR 2017 (FY17) BUDGET STATUS UPDATE

ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE


Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE report on Metro's FY17 Budget status update including service levels for Metro Bus and Rail and response to Board inquiries.

Issue
ISSUE
This report includes service level assumptions for Bus and Rail in FY17. The service level assumption is one of the most critical cost drivers for the budget comprising of 25% of the total budget. During our budget update at the Executive Management Committee in February, the Board requested information on the capital improvements on the Blue Line as well as the public outreach activities surrounding the FY17 budget.

Discussion
DISCUSSION
Bus and Rail Service Levels
Overall, bus and rail services will increase by 0.9% from the FY16 Budget to FY17 (see Attachment A). A major driver of the increase is due to the full-year operation of Gold Line Foothill Phase 2A to Azusa and Expo II extension to Santa Monica which is expected to increase ridership and expand the rail system within the county in both directions east and west by 17.6 miles.

Bus Service
The FY17 Budget includes 30,000 revenue service hours for the operation of the new Line 501 (NoHo to Pasadena) which was a board approved new service in October 2015. These additional hours will be offset by RAM service optimization for the enforcement of the Load Factor standards adopted in the FY16 Transit Service Policy.

Also there are items pending service council review and/or public hearings which will contribute to a -76,495 decrease in revenue service hours comprised of line and segment cancellations and all door boarding partially offset by reinvestment of cancelled lines. Overall, this will result in a -1.3% decrease in bus service hours from FY16.

Rail Service
The FY17 Budget anticipates a 14.6% increase in rail services resulting from a full year operatio...