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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - City Council - 12/17/2012 l i r, ,„„ 170, : (1 i iL EF MUN'I • • AGENDA SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL City Hall 575 Dorset Street SOUTH BURLINGTON, VERMONT Executive & Continued Deliberative Session 5:00 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 Consider entering executive session to discuss personnel, contract negotiations and litigation and continue deliberative session on Interim Zoning applications. Regular Session 6:00 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 1. Agenda Review: Additions, deletions or changes in order of agenda items. 2. Comments and questions from the public not related to the agenda. 3. Announcements and City Manager's Report. 4. Consent Agenda: 1. ***Approve Minutes for Oct. 1, 23, & Nov. 19, 20, & Dec. 3, 2012. 2. *** Sign Disbursements. 3. *** Review November Financials 4. *** Land swap between Lewis Motor and the City (Planning & Zoning Staff). 5. ***Approve changes to the 2012 Grand List with the Errors & Omissions. 5. Consider Appointments to the Library Board of Trustees (City Council). 6. *** Presentation of the Draft ECOS Plan from the CCRPC (Michele Boomhower, Assistant Director& Charles Baker, Executive Director). 7. Presentation on our Pension Assets with Prudential (Marion Griffin, Vice President Investment Strategy & Jocelyn Biondo, SR Relationship Manager). 8. *** Presentation on our Pension Valuation Report (Annie Voldman, Consulting Actuary). 9. Interim Zoning-Continued Public Hearings (Applicants and City Councilors): Continued Public Hearing: Interim Zoning Application IZ-12-06, John Larkin, 40 unit PUD (Phase 1 of 71 unit project), 201 Allen Road. 10. *** Review and Consider Open Space Committee Workplan and Membership (Councilor Riehle). 11. *** Review and Consider Draft Clean Air Cities Resolution (Councilor Greco). 12. *** Review the Encouraging Good Government in South Burlington advertisement in The Other Paper (City Councilors). 13. Scheduling: 1. Date for reconvening discussion on priorities, procedures and Interim Zoning matters recessed on December 11, 2012 (City Council). 2. Review possible options for Steering Committee meeting in January 14. Other Business: 1. Items held from the Consent Agenda 2. Bike Rack—items Council may wish to place on a future agenda: i. Signage at PD. ii. Traffic Lights and sequencing. iii. Paving all City roads with bond (to be discussed during budget time). iv. Dorset Park Solar Array. 3. Other? 15. Consider entering executive session for discussion of personnel matters and litigation and continue deliberative session on Interim Zoning applications (if needed). Respectfully Submitted: Sanford I. Miller City Manager Attachments Included South Burlington City Council Meeting Participation Guidelines City Council meetings are the only time we have to discuss and decide on City matters. We want to be as open and informal as possible; but Council meetings are not town meetings. In an effort to conduct orderly and efficient meetings,we kindly request your cooperation and compliance with the following guidelines. 1. Please be respectful of each other(Council members, staff, the public). 2. Please raise your hand to be recognized by the Chair. Once recognized please state your name and address. 3. Please address the Chair and not other members of the public, staff, or presenters. 4. Please abide by any time limits that have been set. Time limits will be used to insure everyone is heard and there is sufficient time for the Council to conduct all the business on the agenda. 5. The Chair will make a reasonable effort to allow everyone to speak once before speakers address the Council a second time. 6. The Chair may ask that discussion be limited to the Councilors once the public input has been heard. 7. Please do not interrupt when others are speaking. 8. Please do not repeat the points made by others, except to briefly say whether you agree or disagree with others views. 9. Please use the outside hallway for side conversations. It is difficult to hear speaker remarks when there are other conversations occurring. Public Sign- In Dec 17 , 2012 City Council Meeting Please Print Name Name Name 1 U;/c✓/4 abG! 18 .35 2 H,cJtle 8 19 36 3 sat) egan 20 37 4 ' ) 21 38 5 22 39 6 : 23 40 7 Lt144 il it6e/15 24 41 8 pi, ( /qt. c Cl 25 42 9 : n(di C-- 26 43 10 LA '2 44 11 28 45 12 29 46 13 30 47 14 31 48 15 32 _ 49 16 33 50 17 34 51 CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 The South Burlington City Council held a regular meeting on Monday, 22 October 2012, at 5:00 p.m., in the Conference Room, City Hall, 575 Dorset St. Members Present: R. Greco, Chair; S. Dooley, J. Knapp, P. Mackenzie, H. Riehle Also Present: S. Miller, City Manager; R. Rusten, Deputy City Manager; P. Conner, Director of Planning & Zoning; Ilona Blanchard, Project Manager; K. Murray, Planning Department; S. Stitzel, City Attorney; R. Cassidy, School Board Chair; J. Knapp, M. Simoneau, G. Wood, C. Ford, L. Levitt, S. Meckler, G. Carnedy, I. Ludow, V. Hunt, R. Fair, I. Cohen, J. Larkin, A. Harmon, S. McClellan, G. Rabideau, T. Barritt, B. Stuono, S. Quest, N. Simson, A. Germain, T. Kane, T. Bailey, J. Highcamp 1. Executive Session: Ms. Mackenzie moved that the Council meet in executive session to discuss personnel, contract negotiations and litigation, and to continue deliberation on interim zoning applications. Mr. Engels seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Following the executive session, Ms. Riehle moved to exit executive session. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Regular Session: 1. Agenda Review: No issues were raised. 2. Comments & Questions from the Audience, not related to Agenda items: Mr. Knapp read into the record an open letter to the Citizens of South Burlington signed by 31 concerned community members. The letter expressed concern with the direction South Burlington is taking and noted concern that the policies and decisions reached by the current Council do not seem to reflect the will or opinion of the majority of citizens and businesses in the city. The letter quoted a former City Councilor that "all discussions of policy should start with a question, proceed through a discussion, and result in a solution that takes into account the input from a broad range of ideas." Those who signed the letter feel that the current Council begins with a statement of their desired result and ignores the concerns of the broadest group of citizens and arrives at answers to questions the Council never bothered to ask. The signatories felt the Council does not focus on broad city-wide impacts of their policies and make decisions without adequate study and with limited understanding of the long-term effects of unintended consequences. Specifically, the signatories cited the Council holding meetings during the day and early evening hours when most residents work; many meetings are not televised; decisions are CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 2 made in executive sessions or deliberative sessions without proper public oversight or press coverage. The signatories cited the need for more open sessions and the need for the Council to engage the public, and to listen to what is being said, regardless of whether it disagrees with their personal opinions. Mr. Knapp said the letter will appear in The Other Paper and encourages public response. Ms. Highcamp said she is one of the property owners who signed a letter of concern with parking at the intersection of Meadow Rd. and Hadley Rd. Ms. Greco said this will be on a future agenda. 3. Announcements & City Manager's Report: Mr. Miller: Attended the International City Manager's conference with Mr. Rusten. Also attended the VTCMA conference where discussion included economic development, health concerns, etc. Is also on the ICMA conference planning committee. Represented the city on the Airport Steering Committee. Discussion focused on "thrive and survive." Mr. Miller noted that for the Airport to thrive and survive, the community around it must thrive and survive as well. Heard from a resident with concerns about security of the properties around the Airport. Received resignations from Lou Breese (Bike Path Committee) and Marie Ambusk (Natural Resources Committee). Later this week the city's TIF plan will be presented to the Vermont Economic Council. This will include formal testimony. Ms. Riehle: Has attended Natural Resources Committee meetings which are beginning to focus on an open space plan. Ms. Dooley: Part of a 5-person team to visit empty houses/lots at the Airport. Found the loss of housing depressing. The Affordable Housing Task Force will hold focus groups on 30 October. Attended the Regional Planning Commission meeting where discussion centered on the ECOS project. Ms. Greco: Attended the Sustainable Agriculture Task Force meeting and First CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 3 Sustainable Agriculture Film Series. The task force interviewed 3 potential candidates to serve as consultants. Attended the UVM President's installation. Talked to the Chamber regarding the F-35s issue. Attended the Airport Steering Committee meeting with Mr. Miller. 4. Consent Agenda: A. Approve Minutes of 1 October 2012 B. Sign Disbursements C. Review September Financials D. Consider Approval of Swift Water Rescue Part 2 Grant E. Consider Approval of Fire Ground Safety and Survival Grant Ms. Greco asked that the Minutes of 1 October be taken from the Consent Agenda. Ms. Dooley moved to approve the Consent Agenda minus the 1 October Minutes. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 5. Review City Council and Administrative Authority Related to Certain Non-Interim Zoning Development Proposals such as the methadone clinic: Ms. Greco said the City Attorney has been asked to speak to the Council's authority with regard to the proposed location of the Methadone Clinic. Mr. Stitzel said the DRB is regarded under Vermont law as a quasi-judicial body, serving as both judge and jury. They are expected to act independent of any other city officials. The must apple the appropriate legal standards and be completely impartial. Even though the DRB is appointed by the City Council, once appointed, the members of the DRB act independently of the Council. If the Council is not pleased with a member of the DRB, they can remove that person for cause. The appointing authority cannot attempt to influence the decisions of the appointed body. The City Council's participation in any proceeding of the DRB with the goal of directing an outcome would taint the decision of that Board. Mr. Stitzel noted that courts have set aside decisions of a Board when such tainting has occurred. Decision of the DRB is reviewed de novo by the Environmental Board. That Court has the effect of setting aside the decision rendered by the DRB. CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 4 Mr. Stitzel stressed that the Council does not want the DRB process to be tainted. By attempting to influence or direct a decision of the DRB is in conflict with the responsibility the Council. has placed with the DRB and can expose the city to a charge of compromising the civil rights of those who are entitled to a fair hearing. Ms. Greco asked if the Council can change the LDRs to prevent a methadone clinic from coming into the city. Mr. Stitzel said there are some issues associated with that under federal and state law, to protect people with some handicapping disabilities that restrict the ability of a community with regard to certain facilities. There is a question as to whether a methadone clinic is a medical facility. Mr. Stitzel said he can provide a more definitive answer to that question. His immediate response was that this could have "suspicious aspects" because it discriminates against a portion of society. He cited similarities to AA, where meeting places are not necessarily known to the general public. Public comment was then received as follows: Mr. Cassidy: Felt the Council has a role that they can exercise without being discriminatory. He gave a copy of a Resolution adopted by the School Board to the Council. As a private citizen, is aware of the needs of people who struggle with addiction, but he has serious concerns with locating a facility so close to the Middle School. He cited the School's long history of working with the 1-Toward Center, but noted they did not consult the School Board when making their decision to locate the methadone clinic near the schools. He added that the facility is expected to serve 300- 400 patients a day, possibly going as high as 1000. Mr. Wood: Though he cares about people, he has concerns as a parent with the proposed location. Was troubled that there has been only `legal talk.' Would like the Howard to get everything it needs but not in proximity to the schools. Was also troubled that the Council might not have this issue "stick to them." He felt they could approach the Howard Center and suggest they find a better location. Mr. Carnedy: Wants the City Council to protect children. Asked if they can get an injunction to stop this in the best interest of children. Felt it was incumbent on the Council to do something. Ms. Ford: Thought there was a law about how close this kind of facility can be to a school. Mr. Stitzel said there is not. Ms. Levitt: Spoke with Rep. Ann Pugh, head of the House Human Services Committee in CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 5 the State Legislature. She said there never was a law about proximity to schools. The existing law says such a facility cannot be just for dispensing dosage; there must be a lot of social services provided at the same location. Noted the proposed facility is also close to senior housing, Central School and the High School. Questioned the possibility of 1000 additional cars a day in the area of what will be the City Center. Ms. Medlar: Presented a petition with 800+ signatures expressing opposition to the location of the facility. Noted traffic from the facility would be at peak hours and would be 7 days a week. Said this is different from a typical medical facility. Ms. Ludow: Concerned traffic will slow down fire response time. Said the law as she understood it says these facilities can be only in a hospital or medical school. Ms. Greco explained that that law has expired. Ms. Hunt: Said a number of communities have opposed meth clinics in sensitive areas. In Philadelphia, there is a judgment that meth clinics are not medical facilities. She noted that Social Services is a conditional use in this area. Also concerned with parking. Mr. Cohen: Urged the Council to do what it can to delay and then halt the clinic in this location. Concerned with safety and exposure of kids to heroin addicts. Ms. Dooley said she understood that the Administrative Officer's decision has been appealed. Mr. Conner reviewed the history, noting that staff issued a permit to renovate. That decision has been appealed to the DRB by the School Board. A first hearing was held last week, and the hearing was continued. Mr. Wood: Challenged the idea that the Council can't get involved until there is a DRB decision. Ms. Fair and her son: Asked not to put the facility near his school. Mr. Stitzel said he was not aware of a federal statute prohibiting opposition to these facilities. He said the project could go forward during an appeal, unless there was an injunction rendered by the Environmental Court or Supreme Court. He noted the typical E-Court appeal period is a year to 18 months. The same is true for the Supreme Court. Ms. Harmon: Noted there are city programs for kids near this facility. She questioned the city's liability when it invited kids into these programs. Ms. Greco said the Council has taken no position. They will do their best to see what they can do. CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 6 6. Interim Zoning- Public Hearings: A. Interim Zoning #IZ-12-13, Queen City LLC, amendment to PUD to add two new dwelling units, 428-434 Shelburne Road: Ms. Riehle moved to open the public hearing. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. It was noted that this hearing should be continued as there was inadequate notice to abutters. Ms. Dooley moved to continue IZ-12-13 to5 November 2012. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. B. Interim Zoning#IZ-12-12-14, Pizzagalli Properties, LLC, raze existing Liberty Inn and Suites and construct 32,000 sq. ft. general office building and parking, 462 Shelburne Road: Mr. Engels moved to open the public hearing. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. It was noted that this hearing should be continued as there was inadequate notice to abutters. Mr. Engels moved to continue IZ-12-14 to 5 November 2012. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 7. Interim Zoning Continued Public Hearings: A. Interim Zoning #IZ-12-06, John Larkin, 40-unit PUD (phase 1 of 71 unit project), 201 Allen Road: Mr. McClellan said they were waiting to see if the Council had any more questions. He added that they stand on what they presented before. The Council indicated they had no questions. No audience comment was made. Mr. McClellan said they would like a decision so they can continue with the DRB. They want to know if they're on the right track. Ms. Greco said the application doesn't meet any of the 4 reasons for interim zoning. CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 7 Mr. Larkin said all of the units will be affordable at 239,000 (the phase I 40 units). Ms. Greco said to put that in writing. Mr. McClellan said they are trying to focus on what the Council wants. Ms. Greco said they are trying to preserve open space and land for agriculture. Mr. McClellan showed the space for gardens. Ms. Riehle said they would like some single family homes. Mr. Engels said they are looking for form based codes for City Center and then city-wide. Mr. Simoneau asked if the Council could provide some guidance on form based codes so the developer doesn't have to "guess and wing it." Mr. Engels said they haven't decided yet whether form based codes will be recommended city-wide. He added "Who knows what we have?" Ms. Riehle said maybe the developer can have a goal of 20% affordable housing and see if that works for them. Mr. Engels then moved to continue IZ-12-06 to 19 November with possible deliberation in between. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed unanimously. b. Interim Zoning #IZ-12-11, Larkin Realty, amendment to existing PUD, demolish existing two story, 89 unit hotel replace with four story, 89 unit hotel, 5 Dorset Street: Mr. Rabideau reviewed the project. He noted that the new hotel would he an extended stay hotel. With regard to traffic, there is no increase in density or traffic, so that shouldn't be an issue. They are improving circulation and do have an off-road connection to U-Mall. It is also more pedestrian friendly. Ms. Dooley asked if there will he conference facilities. Mr. Rabideau said "not really." There will be a"board room" with a maximum of 10-12 people. Mr. Engels then moved to close the hearing. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 8. Consider Authorizing the City Manager to Complete and Sign the Group Net Metering Agreement to Purchase Power from The Farm at South Village, Inc. CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 8 Ms. Blanchard said some regulations have changed since the original approval. The owner is now losing money and is renegotiating with the city. Three changes are being asked for in the new contract: A. 5% below market B. the city can use up to 100% of the power C. the contract would be renewed annually. Ms. Riehle moved to authorize the City Manager to complete and sign the new agreement. Mr. Engels seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 9. Consider Approval of Renewable Energy Initiatives between City of South Burlington and Encore Redevelopment: A. Possible Approval of Resolution to Establish an Umbrella Renewable Energy Agreement: Ms. Blanchard reviewed the history and noted the city has negotiated an umbrella agreement. This will involve a minimum of 2 projects a year. Each project would reduce the net cost for the city. Ms. Riehle asked if this would set the scene for a lot of future solar farms that might not financially benefit the city. Mr. Miller said it would not. Each project would have to be approved individually. Ms. Blanchard said this could involve rooftops in addition to open land. Ms. Riehle moved to approve the resolution and authorize the City Manager to sign. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. b. Possible Approval of Dorset Park Solar Array Project in Partnership with Encore Redevelopment: Ms. Blanchard explained that this will be a 60kw project with 6 ground-mounted solar panels in Dorset Park adjacent to the storm water pond. The city got a renewable energy incentive from the state ($97,500). The overall project cost is $211,000. This would be funded by a promissory note to the Water Pollution Enterprise Fund at 1% interest, to be paid back in 10 years. Each payment would be below the estimated revenue generation. Yearly maintenance would be $1,000-2,000, and insurance would cost S250.00 a year. Ms. Mackenzie asked where power is being stored. Ms. Blanchard said it will go straight into the grid. She added that this is easier than building a new transformer. CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 9 Mr. Miller suggested considering item "c" before making a decision on "b." c. Authorization of Promissory Note for Interfund Borrowing between City Funds: Mr. Miller explained that WPC benefits slightly and the general fund pays slightly less than it would from another lender. He added that the auditors had no issue with this. Ms. Riehle moved to authorize the promissory note for interfund borrowing in an amount up to $125,000. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Ms. Dooley moved to direct the City Manager to negotiate and sign the agreement for the Dorset Park Solar Array project in an amount not to exceed $125,000. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. d. Supplemental Warrant Authorizing Initial Payment to Encore Redevelopment: Ms. Riehle moved to approve the supplemental warrant authorizing initial payment to Encore Redevelopment as presented. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 10. Review SusAg/Food Security Task Force recommendation regarding consultant selection and consider authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute contract: Ms. Greco reviewed the process. An RFP was put out, and there were 3 responses. A subgroup of the task force reviewed all the responses and interviewed the 3 responders. The subgroup was unanimous in its selection and then took this to the entire task force. Their decision was unanimous in favor of David S. Connor, Place Sense, and Lamoureaux & Dickenson. Ms. Mackenzie expressed concern with where the money is coming from. She said she will vote against this expenditure. Ms. Simpson asked where the money is coming from. Mr. Miller said there is $75,000.00 in a reserve fund. The total for this and the previous consultant is in the range of$60,000. The city is applying for a $15,000 Municipal Planning Grant and is being recommended to receive $50,000 from ECOS steering funding. There are also some contingency funds from FY12.. Mr. Miller added that some CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 10 expenses will run into FY14 and will have to be budgeted. Mr. Rusten added there is $250,000 in the contingency fund and also money that Planning & Zoning doesn't anticipate spending ($25,000). Ms. Riehle moved to authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute the contract with Lamoureaux and Dickenson, David Conner and Place Sense for a figure not to exceed $34,946. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed 4-1 with Ms. Mackenzie voting against. 11. Review Form Based Code Committee recommendation regarding consultant selection and consider authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute contract: Mr. Engels said they got 5 proposals. A 5-person subcommittee reviewed all the proposals and all felt one was superior. The unanimously agreed to interview just that one, Dreyer Design (Newport, VT) /Project for Public Spaces (New York City). They were unanimous in their approval of that applicant. The cost will be $172,630.00 (including $22,000 for design review, if needed). Ms. Murray said $55,000 of this amount would be spent this year. Ms. Mackenzie expressed the same concern as with the previous item and said the Council should have had information on funding prior to this point. Mr. Engels said it is not anticipated that design review would be needed. Ms. Greco was concerned with the dollar amount and with the fact that only one applicant was interviewed. She also felt it was not clear what the outcome would look like. Mr. Bailey, a Huntington resident, said he will be moving to South Burlington in a month and has worked with Paul Dreyer in Huntington (he served on their Planning Commission for 5 years). He said the reason they didn't interview anyone else was that there was no agreement on whom else to interview. He said that Paul Dreyer designed a regulation for Huntington. Ms. Greco asked what the design will look like. Mr. Bailey said it is a complicated process that the Committee has just begun. He recommended approval of the Committee's choice. Mr. Knapp noted this applicant has a major commitment in Newport and asked if they would have time for South Burlington. He also wanted to know why this costs so much more than the other consultants. CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 11 With regard to cost, Mr. Engels said this is a 2-year project for both City Center and the rest of the city. Mr. Knapp noted that this will cost six times more than the Affordable Housing consultant and four times more than the Sustainable Agriculture consultant. He questioned whether the other two are being underserved or whether this is overly expensive. Mr. Knapp explained that it is still not known what the effect of law suits will be on the taxpayers. He wanted to he sure the end result is worth it and doesn't destroy the value of what the city now has. He felt there are still expenses that are not understood, including the potential decrease in the grand list. He asked how the Council will explain to voters that their taxes are going up because of this. Mr. Simoneau echoed this concern and had a fundamental issue with spending this kind of money. Ms. Germain, who serves on the Form Based Codes Subcommittee, said Dreyer has been coming to their meetings and went on the "walk-around." The committee wanted someone who understood Vermont. Ms. Dooley moved to authorize the City Manager to negotiate a contract for Form Based Codes consultant Paul Dreyer at a cost not to exceed $172,600, with $22,000 conditional on the need for design review work, with normal vetting by staff to include hourly costs. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed 4-1, with Ms. Mackenzie voting against. 13. Discuss Council Considering Whether to Initiate a Process to Seek Applications for One or More Additional Library Trustees: Mr. Rusten reviewed the history. He noted that the by-laws say there can be 9 Board members. Ms. Simson enumerated the issues the Board is dealing with, including: flooding, space constraints, budgets, rewriting by-laws, advocating for a new library, etc. She asked for a full 9 members. Council members felt that community members who applied for that Board or who listed it as an additional choice should be re-contacted to see if they are still interested. 12. Discuss Option Related to the Interim Zoning Amendment regarding Economic Development Studies: Mr. Miller reviewed the history and noted that 1 October deadline to do something regarding the economic impacts of interim zoning. He said that responses to the RFP were not considered sufficient by staff. He did not feel re-issuing the same RFP would result in better responses. He suggested the following possible options: CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 12 1. Do nothing 2. Reissue the same RFP 3. Discuss the broad intent of Interim Zoning Ordinance and make amendments to the RFP 4. Amend the amendment to Interim Zoning Mr. Engels said his concern is that there is no long range planning. Ms. Greco disagreed with this. Ms. Riehle asked why the Council would want to do this now. She said it didn't make sense to her. Ms. Dooley said she believed the majority of residents are not happy with how the city is developing. She was not sure how interim zoning will affect development, but she believed it would be better in the future. Ms. Mackenzie cited the cost to developers for additional hearings and the cost of interim zoning. She said the Council owes it to the citizens to be as transparent as possible on the first two components of interim zoning and on the impact on developers. Ms. Greco cited hidden costs of development to residents including having to pay for things a developer didn't do. She didn't see how the Council could do the economic piece and didn't see how it is tied to interim zoning. Mr. Miller said he could consult with the City Attorney as to how to do it. Mr. Engels was concerned they would get a "barrage of criticism." Ms. Dooley supported getting legal advice. She felt the economic piece didn't "seem like a prudent investment." Ms. Mackenzie felt there are elements of the economic development piece that can and should be done now. She felt the Council is walking away from its responsibility. Mr. Knapp said he was pleased to see that the Council is now testifying to his objection to interim zoning. He said they are "bailing out" of the basis on which they put through interim zoning. He then read from the State Statute and said the Council has failed to meet the test for interim zoning. Mr. Simoneau noted that interim zoning was contested and that 2/3 of the public comment on the city's website was opposed to interim zoning. The economic study was CITY COUNCIL 23 OCTOBER 2012 PAGE 13 an attempt to appease the opponents as a justification for interim zoning. He said that the fact that the Council hasn't done that raises the question of credibility. 14. Discuss South Burlington Legislative Breakfast Meetings: Members agreed to continue the legislative breakfast meetings as in the past. 15. Other Business: A. Items from Consent Agenda: Ms. Greco felt there was some discussion omitted regarding interim zoning items. This will be researched. B. Bike Rack: Members agreed to consider signage at the Police Department, traffic light sequencing and paving roads at future meetings. C. Other Members agreed to put the Meadow Road/Hadley Road issue on the 19 November agenda. It was noted that this involves city land that has turned into a"parking lot." Ms. Dooley noted that at the Region Planning Commission meeting a new grant for sidewalks was authorized. The deadline for application is early November. Ms. Dooley asked whether the city can pay for committee members to attend an annual housing conference ($75). She noted that for some members, this would be a hardship. Mr. Miller said the city doesn't typically do this. He noted it is not a "budget buster." Members were OK with paying for those committee members. 16. Executive Session: Ms. Dooley moved the Council meet in executive session to discuss negotiations. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 17. Regular Session: Ms. Dooley moved to adjourn the meeting. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Clerk CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 The South Burlington City Council held a regular meeting on Monday, 19 November 2012,at 5:00 p.m., in the Conference Room, City Hall, 575 Dorset St. Members Present: R. Greco, Chair; S. Dooley, P. Engels, P. Mackenzie, H. Riehle Also Present: S. Miller, City Manager; R. Rusten, Deputy City Manager; D. Kinville, City Clerk; P. Conner, Director of Planning & Zoning; J. RabidOux, Director of Public Works; Chief T. Whipple, Police Department; B. Goldberg, T. Barritt, B. Stuono, J. Knapp, S. McClellan, G. Maille, K. McEachern. E. O'Hara, B. Patraude, J. Heidcamp, D. Fancher, D. Shiman, M. Voegeli, B. Alshire, A. Linbur, P. Demers, L. Williams 1. Executive Session: Ms, Dooley moved the Council meet in executive session to discuss personnel, contract negotiations, and litigation, and continue deliberative session on Interim Zoning applications. Mr. Engels seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Following the executive session, Ms. Dooley moved the Council exit executive session. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Regular Session: 1. Agenda Review: Ms. Greco asked to add to tomorrow's agenda a possible response to the GBIC petition. 2. Comments & Questions from the Audience, not related to Agenda items: No issues were raised, 3. Announcements & City Manager's Report: Mr. Miller: Rick Hubbard has resigned from the Rec Path Committee. Attended a Burlington City Council meeting on 13 November for the ECOS project and met with the Free Press editorial board. The Emergency Operations Center worked well during Superstorm Sandy. The city will be working with the state to simulate events in order to have an even better response. Spent 4 days at ICMA committee meetings in preparation for the annual conference. CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 2 Ms. Riehle - Attended the affordable housing meeting last Thursday and the Natural Resources Committee meeting on Monday. Ms. Dooley - Chaired the affordable housing meeting. Attended the statewide biennial housing conference. 4 Council members were present, but they did not speak together. Mr. Miller said they will have to plan for occasions when this occurs. Mr. Engels - Attended both the affordable housing meeting and the form based codes meeting last week. The first public meeting for form based codes will be on 13 December, 7 p.m., at a location to be determined. Ms. Greco - Attended the Planning Commission meeting and chaired the sustainable agriculture task force. Their first public meeting will be on 10 December, 7 p.m. Also attended the airport strategic planning meeting which focused on the financial status of the airport. Spoke on the ethics of the F-35s at two meetings. 4. Consent Agenda: A. Approve Minutes for 1 and 22 October and 5 November(may not be ready for review/approval) B. Sign Disbursements C. Review October Financials Mr. Miller noted the Minutes were not ready for review. Ms. Riehle asked to remove the October financials from the Consent Agenda. Ms. Dooley moved to approve the Consent Agenda minus the minutes and October financials. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Ms. Riehle asked about the Natural Resources budget which appears to he way over for education. Mr. Conner explained that is both for Natural Resources and the Energy Committee. It involves a program for which the city got federal funding and is 100% reimbursable. Ms. Mackenzie then moved to approve the October financials as presented. Ms. Riehle CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 3 seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 5. Discuss Parking on Hadley and Meadow Roads: Ms. Greco noted receipt of a petition from neighborhood residents regarding a parking issue. Ms. Heidcamp said she is concerned with the loss of green space. She reviewed the history of the issue: There was an entrance to the Rice High School walking path, which neighbors felt was a valuable loop which Rice made available to the public. A while back, residents began to notice vehicles in the green space and also people camping there. This is city-owned land, and when neighbors questioned what was going on, they were told it was OK for people to park on city green space. At one point, someone spoke with the neighbor who said the property was theirs. That neighbor said they heard nothing from neighbors about their concerns, traditions, etc. They would be happy to have that discussion. She noted it was their guests who were sleeping in the tents. She also said they never claimed the land was theirs. Ms. Williams gave Council members photos of the area. She said the main issue is blocking access to the woods. They have long been welcomed to use the path, and now it isn't the same. It doesn't feel like "public property" anymore. A friend of the neighbors in question said nobody wants to make enemies. He said they understand about the path to the woods and hope people on all sides can come together. He added they don't want to put "fear in your hearts." Ms. McEachern said she would like to see it return to the way it used to be. She would like the vehicles removed, so it doesn't feel like she's"trespassing." She also noted that 2 split fences at the end of Hadley Rd. have been removed. Mr. Shiman said he walks through there twice a day and never has been harassed or made to feel unsafe. He felt that insuring there is a place to walk through is paramount, and he hoped everyone feels they are treated respectfully. Mr. Demers felt this is about public land "being grabbed by someone." Mr. Linbur, the neighbor, said he moved in 2 years ago and was told where the property lines are and that the path was used by local residents. He wanted to encourage people to use the path. He added that if it is "green space," it needs to be defined, and stressed that the Police told him it was OK to park vehicles there. CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 4 Mr. O'Hara said he felt badly if people felt uncomfortable there and would like it to be a space where everyone feels comfortable. Mr. Alshire said they will be moving the bus that has been parked there soon. He felt that in Vermont you need to meet the people you share space with. Ms. Heidcamp said that at one time you could approach the woods through a grassy area; now you have to weave among people's vehicles. Another resident said it's not about love and acceptance; it's a question of recognizing boundaries and what is public and what is private. Ms. Dooley asked if there was any direct communication and a request to move the 1 vehicles. Mr. Linbur said he saw a person taking pictures and asked why. They said they weren't happy with the vehicles being there, and he told them the Police said it was OK. Ms. Greco said she felt the best thing was for them to get to know each other and solve this among themselves. Ms. Riehle asked about the split rail fence. A resident said the former owner put it up. Mr. Linbur said it was falling down. He tried to fix it, but finally removed it. Ms. Dooley said if she lived there, she wouldn't feel she had a right to park a car there. It doesn't seem equitable if everyone can't park there. Mr. Engels, who lives in the neighbors, noted that neighbors had rejected mediation. He felt they should take advantage of it. Ms. Greco asked if it really OK to park on public land. Mr. Rabidoux said there is nothing he knows of to prohibit that use. There are not many places in the city where this could happen, and unless it interferes with public health and safety, the city doesn't interfere. He added that it was his expectation that in the winter when a place for snow storage is needed, they could take some action. Chief Whipple said the only thing in the traffic ordinance is winter parking unless public access is physically blocked. The winter parking ban is 1 December to 1 April, from Midnight to 8 a.m. Mr. Miller noted the city has a staff mediator whose services were offered to the neighbors and rejected. Ms. Greco noted that the Council will be discussing its priorities tomorrow night, one of which is ordinances. She said people still have to live with each other and recommended CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 5 they take advantage of mediation. Mr. Engels noted that he and his dog have been set on by the neighbor's dog. The neighbor acknowledged that it is a young, aggressive rescue dog and they are considering muzzle training. Mr. Miller said to let him know if mediation is wanted. 6. Interim Zoning: Continued Public Ifearing: A. Interim Zoning #IZ-12-06, John Larkin, 40 unit PUD (phase 1 of 71 unit project), 201 Allen Road: Mr. McClellan presented 2 new drawings which clarify the project. They added 6 single family homes and clarified where the agricultural and open space are. Ms. Dooley asked to clarify if 50% or more of the units would be "affordable." Mr. McClellan said they would be. Ms. Dooley said she would like to see 4 of the 6 single family homes to be 3-bedroom units. Mr. McClellan said he was pretty sure that would be OK. Ms. Dooley noted almost no 3 bedroom homes have been built in the city in recent years. Mr. McClellan said there would be only a couple of one bedroom units (10%), only 2 that could be 4 bedrooms, and the rest would be 2 and 3 bedrooms. He felt there could be 15 of each. Ms. Dooley said that would be fabulous. Ms. Riehle then moved to close the hearing. That motion was later withdrawn, and Ms. Riehle moved to continue the hearing to l 7 December, with deliberation to occur in between. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 7. Discuss possible responses to recent letters to the editor and advertisements in The Other Paper: Ms. Dooley said it seems the Council is doing a lot of work. She asked if any member was interested in organizing how the Council might respond. Ms. Greco said she got no calls reinforcing the letters but got calls in support of the Council. Mr. Engels said the Council keeps talking about communication but they don't seem to be communicating. He felt there should be something from the Council in The Other Paper every month. CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 6 Ms. Mackenzie said she felt the letters were thoughtful and represented a significant part of the community. She said she didn't disagree with the letters or the full page ad. She felt that all the deliberative sessions regarding Interim Zoning should be done in public and that there have been comments made in executive session that have made her not proud to be a member of this Council. She specifically noted a comment from one member: "I wish there were a way to say 'no' to this proposal." Ms. Dooley said Ms. Mackenzie should raise her concern at the time something is happening. She added she would be interested in having an open session at which Ms. Mackenzie would raise these concerns. She also liked Mr. Engels idea of being proactive. Mr. Knapp noted the Council will be discussing its priorities at 4:30 tomorrow, a time when just about everyone who signed the letter that appeared in The Other Paper, and most other residents, are at work, so there can be no public input. He noted there were more than 100 people who contacted the signers of the letter voicing their support of it. Ms. Greco said the Council is trying to mesh schedules of people on committees, and there are only so many hours in the day. She felt the Council could never accommodate all 12,000 adults who live in South Burlington. Ms. Goldberg said she endorsed the letter and agreed with its content. She hoped the Council would take it as constructive criticism as there are real concerns with the direction the City Council is taking the city. 8. Discuss possible repeal of the Economic Studies Amendment to the Interim Zoning Bylaw: Mr. Engels thought having a public hearing to amend the bylaw is a terrible idea and that re-opening the bylaw would be a disaster. He noted the amendment was his, and he didn't think they needed to anything about it. fie noted the attorneys felt they could ignore it. Ms. Riehle felt that opening that discussion would get them"off task." She was inclined to ignore it. She felt the timing on the amendment was silly. Ms. Dooley agreed. She noted that staff did try to carry this out but didn't get anything workable. Ms. Mackenzie said her concern is that they don't have to money to do these studies. She noted developers saying how much their costs have increased because they have had to have meetings with the Council. CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 7 Mr. Knapp asked how the Council will know the potential impacts on the Grand list, tax income, etc., if they don't do the studies. He also noted the impact of pushing growth out of the city and having people drive through the city. He stressed that the enabling statute requires that these things be taken into consideration. Ms. Goldberg said this discussion is part of what The Other Paper letter is about. It is part of the Interim Zoning bylaw that has not been fulfilled. She noted that Interim Zoning was adopted before its impact was known. Mr. Miller noted that the responses to the RFP to do these studies did not fulfill what staff felt the work should be. Ms. Riehle said she is comfortable going forward with getting information around the 4 goals of interim zoning. She hoped they would lead to significant changes. Ms. Greco said she would like to see the economic studies done, but there were no good responses to the RFPs. 9. Other Business: Ms. Dooley asked if there is a workload attached to putting signage at the Police Department on an agenda. Ms. Greco questioned if it is a high enough priority. Mr. Miller said it would not require a lot of time, half an hour or less for some staff people. A majority of the Council asked to put it on an agenda. Mr. Miller said they would get to it by the end of the year. Ms. Greco questioned the room's sound system. Mr. Miller said it is not the sound system; it is the acoustics in the room. Mr. Maille recommended getting an "attenuator." Ms. Greco noted that on Saturday there were 20 cars lined up at the new stop sign at Kimball Ave. and Gregory Drive and no cars entering from the side street. She felt it was fine for Monday-Friday rush hours. Mr. Knapp suggested a "Yield" sign on Kimball or a "please take turns" sign. Mr. Miller suggested bringing in Mr. Rabidoux for that discussion. Mr. Engels asked about City Hall renovations. Mr. Miller said things will be starting soon. They have worked with the company to finalize the HVAC system design. Other work should start soon. Ms. Dooley asked about the results of Professor Bolduc's poll. Ms. Greco said they came in today. CITY COUNCIL 19 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 8 Mr. Knapp said the stop signs with the flashing lights are great. As there was no further business to come before the Council, Ms. Mackenzie moved to adjourn. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 8:30p.m. Clerk CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 The South Burlington City Council held a special meeting on Tuesday, 20 November 2012, at 4:30 p.m., in the Conference Room, City Hall, 575 Dorset St. Members Present: R. Greco, Chair; S. Dooley, P. Engels, P. Mackenzie, H. Riehle Also Present: S. Miller, City Manager; R. Rusten, Deputy City Manager; D. Kinville, City Clerk; P. Conner, Director of Planning & Zoning; J. Rabidoux, Public Works Director; Chief D. Brent, Fire Department; T. Hubbard, Recreation Director; K. Murray, Project Manager; J. Ladd, City Manager's Staff; B. Stuono 1. Agenda Review: Ms. Greco asked to add a discussion of a possible response to the F-35 petitions. 2. Discuss and Possible Update of City Council 2012 Priority Tasks that were Set in April: A. Interim Zoning/Comprehensive Plan: 1. Hire Consultants Three of the 4 consultants have been hired. An Open Space consultant has not. Ms. Riehle said that the Open Space committee will want a consultant to help with research and developing some LDRs. She understood there was $30,000 in the budget for this. She hoped they could look at a consultant already hired to see if they could add this to their current work, for additional money. because some issues are interwoven. They were hoping not to have to go to an RFP. Mr. Miller said staff is still working on contracts for 2 consultants - Sustainable Agriculture and Form Based Codes. He said this could be included in the scope of work, but that would have to be defined and funding identified. 2. Augment Staff Mr. Miller noted there is discussion about hiring someone for community facilitation and a possible price tag. Mr. Conner added they are looking for someone to help over the next few months, specifically for the public meetings. This would take pressure off staff. Mr. Conner noted the Orton Family Foundation is looking to fund innovative projects directed toward better land planning and is selecting communities for a day-long event. Members of the Form Based Codes Committee are involved in this. A letter of interest has been submitted. There would be no cost to do it, but it would involve staff resources. They will meet this week on the first "hurdle." If the city passes that, there will be several weeks to submit more information. Mr. Conner said he was hopeful, but he didn't know the competition. CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 2 3. Seek Grant Funding The city received and ECOS grant of$50,000. There is an application in for a state grant of$15,000, and the Orton Foundation grant application. The ECOS work has to be completed by the end of 2013. Ms. Mackenzie raised the issue of the economic studies which have not been done and which were discussed at last night's meeting. Ms. Riehle felt there was some interest in doing this, but the timing is unclear as well as the cost. Mr. Engels felt they should be done. Ms. Dooley felt it depends on the cost and the timing. She didn't feel this should be done in the next 6 months. Mr. Miller said there is no additional funding in the current (2013) budget unless something else is cut. They could look at the 2014 budget. Mr. Miller noted the Council is inclined to do the budget work on a Saturday instead of the usual way. He added that there would have to be RFPs that could work, which may be something a little different from what is in the Interim Zoning amendment. Ms. Greco asked if that would mean amending the IZ amendment. Mr. Miller said it depends on how the scope of work is crafted. It would he the Council's judgment as to whether it meets their objectives. Ms. Mackenzie noted that at the August meeting, the process was to be that Mr. Miller, Mr. Rusten and Ms. Murray looked at what was received from the first RFPs. Mr. Miller said to do that now would not be a good use of time because there is no money to do the work. Ms. Mackenzie moved to delay the economic analysis component of Interim Zoning with a process to be started in the first quarter of FY2014. Ms. Dooley said she wasn't ready to commit to this without funding. She was OK with revisiting it as part of the budget process. Ms. Mackenzie then moved to review the economic analysis component of Interim Zoning as part of the FY14 budget process. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Ms. Riehle asked if Interim Zoning is still the #1 priority. Mr. Miller suggested going through all priorities first. CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 3 Ms. Dooley said she didn't want there to be "four silos." She noted there are potential conflicts with regulations, and she didn't want people to be working at cross purposes. B. Adopt TIF Plan: 1. Concept Plan for Market Street Mr. Miller said consultants have just been authorized to proceed with a final design. Market Street is part of the TIF and is also separate. It has been identified as a legislative priority and will be discussed at the January meeting with Legislators. It will involve a change in legislation. Mr. Miller stressed that South Burlington wants to get what Milton got. He indicated that wording regarding legislation will be submitted at a later date. Mr. Engels noted that nowhere on the priority list is City Center mentioned. Mr. Miller suggested calling this TIF/City Center. C. Comprehensive Plan: It was suggested that this be called Land Use Policy Documents and include the Comprehensive Plan, the Old Map and the Land Development Regulations. Nothing has yet been done on these by the City Council. The Planning Commission is discussing some recommendations made by the Council. II - Comprehensive Communications Improvements: A. Internal Communications: 1. Analyze IT Equipment This has been done on an "if it breaks, get it fixed" basis. Mr. Miller noted there is no one on staff whose sole function is IT. A rule of thumb is that there should be one such person for every 40 employees. There has been discussion of how best to analyze needed software, and there may need to be a consultant to do this. Mr. Rusten said there are multi layers of issues. This year they are starting to upgrade desktops, etc. Outside people have been used to help with this. Ms. Mackenzie said the situation won't improve until it becomes a priority. She suggested reaching out to someone who has done this for other communities. Mr. Miller CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 4 said there are no resources for this in FY2013. There could be in FY2014, but the Council would have to make that decision. Mr. Miller noted that Montpelier has a 2-person IT Department with a smaller staff than South Burlington has. VLCT has 3 IT people. Ms. Mackenzie said that if you add up the hours you spend being frustrated, it pays for itself. Mr. Miller noted some of the recent improvements including: '`Outlook" for everyone, upgraded laptops, standardized operating software, consistent licensed software, remote access for everyone, upgraded servers, 4 exchange servers and a backup server, etc. He noted that Chief Brent has made a request to upgrade software for scheduling, payroll and overtime. B. External Communications: 1. Improve Customer Relations Mr. Miller noted the city's "customers" are residents and businesses, possibly some outside of the city. He said they try to respond to all inquiries within 24-48 hours. This is standard in all departments. Ms. Riehle said she felt the e-mails she had seen are very thorough and professional from all the staff. She noted there are some people you just can't make happy. Ms. Dooley said she would like to see listing in the Community Calendar I the Free Press. Ms. Ladd said the Free Press likes things 2 days in advance, but there is no guarantee something will be printed. Mr. Engels said that things that are sent as "news" may not get into the calendar. Ms. Greco noted that at last night's meeting Mr. Engels suggested a City Council piece in The Other Paper each month. Mr. Engels said there shouldn't be a disconnect between what the Council is doing and what people think they are doing. He felt that now that isn't the case. Ms. Greco disagreed. She felt The Other Paper captures most of what is going on in the city. Mr. Engels said this doesn't equal what they need to communicate to people. He agreed to be the first to do an article and suggested he respond to what was in The Other Paper as ads and letters to the editor. He stressed that meetings on CCTV, Minutes, and The Other Paper don't equal "public relations." Ms. Mackenzie felt there should be something written on engaging with the public in the new budget process. She was willing to do that. CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 5 Mr. Engels felt there should be an agenda item for the Council to respond to the things in The Other Paper. Ms. Dooley felt that item should not be discussed before 7 p.m. Ms. Mackenzie agreed to do a December column on the budget process; Ms. Dooley will do something in January on Affordable Housing, and Ms. Greco will do something in February on the proposed budget. 2. Website Mr. Miller said there will be an internal discussion on addressing that. Ms. Dooley cited the need to continue to update. 3. Social Networking- Mr. Engels felt the Facebook page is really good. Mr. Miller reviewed the social networking of various city departments. Ms. Blanchard has been organizing a Facebook presence for the city. It is very informative and was used to alert people to the coining of Superstorm Sandy. 4. CCTV Ms. Greco felt the city is getting what it is paying for. Ms. Mackenzie suggested working with CCTV to upgrade City Hall facilities with possible live streaming. That should be part of the budget discussion. Ms. Greco said it is a question of using the time the city pays for in the best way. Mr. Miller noted that the Council authorized having the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Agriculture community meetings done by CCTV even if there was additional cost. He noted there was no additional cost for the Affordable Housing meeting. Staff will contact CCTV to see what remaining availability the city has. 5. Response to Residents' Concerns Ms. Greco felt "the Bike Rack" was a step in the right direction. She also felt members respond to e-mails. CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 6 6. Inquiries from the Public and the Media Mr. Miller said staff responds as best they can, within 24-48 hours. Sometimes they can't respond to the deadlines of others. Mr. Rusten said there is a question of the appropriateness of answering policy questions, especially future policy. He cited a particular case. III - Airport and Related Issues: A. Noise Issues Mr. Miller noted the Airport is applying for funds to do a Part 150 update. Mr. Maille noted that on the Burlington website. the Burlington City Council has approved funding for a new NCP study. Mr. Miller noted that work hasn't begun. Ms. Greco asked if South Burlington will have a role in the process. Mr. Miller said not in the testing. Mr. Maille said when the results are known, South Burlington can comment. B. Airport Strategic Planning Committee Mr. Miller said he will be reporting to the City Council at the 5 December meeting. He has attended all but one of the Strategic Planning Committee meetings. There is discussion regarding privatization with an aim toward a vote on this in early December. Ms. Greco questioned whether someone would want to buy the Airport in its present condition. She felt privatization wouldn't solve the problems,just shift them to someone else. Mr. Miller said privatization is a rarely used option in the U.S., and it has had very mixed reviews when it has occurred. C. Acquisition and Demolition Program Ms. Greco said she didn't know what role the city has in this. Mr. Miller said they have asked for information and have told Burlington Mayor Weinberger that the information South Burlington has doesn't "fit together." There is discussion about a presentation to the City Council, but until there is data that makes sense, that wouldn't do any good. Ms. Greco said the public wants to know where the Airport is on this. She noted that Bob McEwing has said they would not be purchasing any more homes, and some residents are questioning whether they can be bought out. She asked how the city can respond to them. CITY COUNCIL 20 NOVEMBER 2012 PAGE 7 Mr. Miller said the Airport Commission can ask. The City Council has asked. He has asked about the data. All are waiting for information. Ms. Dooley said she understands there are several homes with commitments to purchase that are being lived in. She wanted to know how many of these there are and where they are. She felt the Airport may not have the money to do everything they have committed to do. She added there has been very little transparency, and it may be hard to change that pattern. Members agreed to schedule a meeting on 11 December 2012, 5-8 p.m.. to finish this agenda. Mr. Engels said he had just viewed an e-mail which indicates that South Burlington has not been selected as an Orton site. Ms. Mackenzie moved to continue the meeting until 11 December 2012. Ms. Riehle seconded. Motion passed unanimously. The session ended at 6:40 p.m. Clerk CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 The South Burlington City Council held a regular meeting on Monday, 3 December 2012, at 5:00 p.m., in the Conference Room, City Hall, 575 Dorset St. Members Present: R. Greco, Chair; S. Dooley, P. Engels, P. Mackenzie Also Present: S. Miller, City Manager; R. Rusten, Deputy City Manager; J. Rabidoux, Director of Public Works; K. Murray, Development Coordinator; S. O'Neil, E. Wood, E. Dates, D. Jenkins, A. Harrison, B. Stuono, G. Rabideau, A. Senecal, J. Nick, C. Heindel, M. Mittag 1. Executive Session: Ms. Dooley moved the Council meet in executive session. Mr. Engels seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Following the executive session, Mr. Engels moved the Council exit executive session. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Regular Session: 1. Agenda Review: Members agreed to add to the agenda the selecting of a date for discussion of the ad in The Other Paper and the adding of additional members to the Form Based Codes sub- committee. 2. Comments & Questions from the Audience, not Related to Agenda Items: Mr. Mittag: Asked why, in the face of public opinion, the solar installation at Dorset Park is mounted on the ground instead of on the rooftops of the 2 hockey buildings. He said the Park land is supposed to be for recreation use. 3. Announcements & City Manager's Report: Mr. Miller: Attended the VLCT Board meeting on 27 November. The Legislative Breakfast will be held at City Hall tomorrow morning. The GBIC reception scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled. Ms. Dooley: Affordable Housing Subcommittee met last week. There were 4 evening meetings at the 4 schools. Each had a different theme. A number of people in official capacities attended, and the discussions were very worthwhile. Notes will be on the CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 2 Affordable Housing web page soon. Mr. Engels: Form Based Codes subcommittee met last Thursday. A number of members who attended the Affordable Housing meetings had great things to say about them. Also attended a meeting of the Pension Advisory Committee which met with people from the School District. The Committee received 12 responses to its RFP and has invited presentations from 8 of the 12. 4. Consent Agenda: A. Approve Minutes for 1 and 22 October and 5, 19,23 November 2012 B. Sign Disbursements C. Possible approval of a $.30 increase in the per site visit fee, from $0.60 to $0.90 to Systems East, Inc., for acceptance of credit card payments for City services D. Consider approval of Homeland Security Training; Reimbursement Grand (Fire Chief) Ms. Dooley asked to remove the warrant from the Consent Agenda. Mr. Engels moved to approve the Consent Agenda minus the warrant. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Mr. Rusten explained the Prudential charge for asset management. He also confirmed that the $10,000,000.00 paid to the School District is the typical payment to them from tax receipts. Ms. Mackenzie moved to approve the warrants. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 5. Interview Candidates for Trustee on the Library Board and Consider Extension or Re-advertising: A. Sarah O'Neil: Is an avid reader and loves the Library. Felt she could help. Is on the Board of Directors for First Night; also volunteers for the Cancer Society, YMCA and Rotary. CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 3 Understands the time commitment. If she disagreed with a City Council position, she would be open minded and work to reach an agreement. Mostly interested in serving on the Library Board. B. Elizabeth Wood: Lifelong library lover and user; was an English teacher and has been a librarian with health care organizations. Is beginning to get involved on the Forum for Vermont Public Radio, a committee for the United Way, and program planning for Elder Education. Understands time commitment. In a case of disagreement, would make sure both sides are heard. Interested only in the Library Board. C. Ellen Dates: Had a great experience as Trustee for the Pierson Library when she lived in Shelburne. Serves on the Burlington Garden Club, v✓hich worked on the front entrance to this Library. Also on the State Garden Club and Rotary. OK with time commitment. In case of disagreement would work collaboratively to avoid conflict. Interested only in the Library Board. D. Amy Harrison: The ad "spoke to me"; wants to do some planning as it's what she's done in her career. Not serving on any other committees in the city. OK with the time commitment. CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 4 In instances of conflict, her personal view wouldn't come out in public. Would be open to other committees. Feels this Library is behind others she has participated in, technologically and in available services, especially room for children. F. Kathy Mackin Avid reader, loves the Library; is retired now and wants a project to sink her teeth into and make a difference. Background in project management and fund raising for the United Way. Also volunteers in the "Read to Me" program in the Burlington North End. OK with time commitment. In instances of conflict, would listen, ask questions, and go with what Council wants if there were no moral conflicts. Only interested in Library Board at this point. G. Don Jenkins: Would like to see a separate facility; served on a committee that discussed steps to make that happen. Member of non-profit board and Rotary. No time commitment issues. In instances of conflict would go with the decision of others. Interested only in the Library Board at this time. 6. Interim Zoning - Reopen/Reconsideration: A. Reconsideration of Interim Zoning Application #IZ-12-07, Rye Associates, subdivide an 18.01 acre parcel into 30 lots for development of: !) 36 single family dwellings, 2) four 4-unit, multi-family dwellings, and 3) four commercial buildings totaling 20,000 sq. ft., 1075 Hinesburg Road: Mr. Rabideau said the purpose of reconsideration is to correct a technical flaw. They CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 5 misstated the number of acres needed to sustain the TDRs. The applicant needs to buy 31 units of development rights from another property. They would conserve 25.8 acres. They agree with staff's math on this. Mr. Rabideau said the applicant is still committed to purchasing the rights on a suitable piece of land and feels this meets the Council's intent to conserve agricultural soil. Ms. Greco said she still has a concern with building on good soil but is the only one who feels that way. Ms. Murray said she can recheck to be sure the numbers are accurate. Ms. Mackenzie moved to close the hearing as the applicant has agreed to abide by staff s numbers. Mr. Engels seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 7. Interim Zoning- Continued Public Hearings: A. Continued Public Hearing Interim Zoning Application #IZ-12-08, 900 Dorset Street, LLC: construct a three unit multi-family dwelling on lot with existing single family dwelling, 900 Dorset Street: Mr. Nick provided some architectural renderings and pictures of the existing property. He showed a picture of the proposal to relocate the rec path. They would work with City staff regarding the best use of that space. He also reminded the Council that one unit would be affordable. The road would be gravel. All previously stated amenities remain. Ms. Mackenzie said she appreciated the level of cooperation. Ms. Mackenzie moved to close the hearing. Mr. Engels seconded. Motion passed unanimously. B. Continued Public Hearing: Interim Zoning Application #IZ-12-13, Queen City LLC: amendment to PUD to add two new dwelling units, 428-434 Shelburne Road: Mr. Heindel said parking matches the current requirements. They could be allowed up to a 25% reduction. They are not sure where any pavement would be removed. Ms. Greco noted that staff has said the Council needs to see any plan that removes pavement. Ms. Dooley said she would like to see green space adjacent to front doors. Mr. Heindel said they would look at that. CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 6 Ms. Mackenzie moved to continue the hearing until 7 January 2013 with possible deliberation in between. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. c. Continued Public Hearing: Interim Zoning Application #IZ-12-14, Pizzagalli Properties, LLC: raze existing Liberty Inn and Suites and construct 32,000 sq. ft. general office building and parking, 462 Shelburne Rd: Ms. Murray advised that the applicant has asked for a continuation. Ms. Dooley moved to continue IZ-12-14 until 7 January 2013. with possible deliberation in between. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 8. Logo for Path to Sustainability: Ms. Murray showed the proposed logo to members. Ms. Greco suggested adding something "growing." 9. Discuss Draft Legislative Priorities: Mr. Miller noted that since Barre has been deemed to be #6 in the TIF line, the city will be asking for special legislation to add a 7th allowable TIF to accommodate South Burlington. Barre doesn't have final approval but Mr. Miller felt they will get it before South Burlington does. He noted there will be some trips to Montpelier needed to testify but felt that since the Governor is supporting this, he didn't consider it to be a huge problem. Ms. Greco asked if the change would be just for South Burlington or could benefit the whole state. Mr. Miller said it is more likely the request would be granted if it benefits more than just South Burlington. Members expressed concern with the time commitment. Mr. Miller said it is crucial to have a TIF District that works well and suggested that staff would report back to the Council if they felt it was taking too much of their time. Members were OK with that. With regard to the railroad crossing issue. Mr. Miller said they would be building on what Michele Kupersmith did last session. Nothing would preclude the city from providing its own solution if needed later on. Legislators would be introducing legislation that might prod the AOT to take action. Legislators will also be asked to keep the city informed so the city can have input on what ANR proposes that could affect the city's Stormwater Utility. With regard to unfunded health care mandates, Mr. Miller said if the legislature wants municipalities to pay for things, the state should provide some of the funding. He said CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 7 the city wants legislators to be on top of this issue. Ms. Dooley noted that everyone is being asked to pay more. Mr. Rustin suggested reminding legislators that there is a tax impact on any mandate. Mr. Miller suggested discussion on unfunded mandates in general. Mr. Miller then explained the process for the City Charter change proposals. Members agreed that these should be handled as two separate bills. Mr. Miller noted that the City Clerk is being asked to perform civil marriages. She cannot do this because she is not a Justice of the Peace. She is asking for the right to do this with the money to go to the city. Mr. Miller questioned whether Legislators should be asked to look into this. He noted that Justices of the Peace might not like it. It was suggested that this be run by the BCA. 10. Discuss FY14 Budget Review Schedule: Members agreed to hold the budget review on Saturday, 12 January, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. TZ They also agreed to hold 17 January, in reserve, incase budget work is not finished on the th. Ms. Mackenzie will do a budget article for The Other Paper. 11. Other Business: A. Date for The Other Paper ad discussion: Ms. Dooley said she hoped the discussion could be at the next meeting. Mr. Miller said that meeting already includes the audit (Ron Smith will be here), the pension (Managers will be here), and ECOS. Members agreed to add The Other Paper ad discussion to that agenda. B. Form Based Codes Subcommittee additional members: Mr. Engels presented Peter McCarthy of MBT Bank and Martin LaLonde of the School Board as additional members. Ms. Dooley moved to approve Mr. McCarthy and Mr. LaLonde for membership on the Form Based Codes subcommittee. Ms. Mackenzie seconded. Motion passed unanimously. CITY COUNCIL 3 DECEMBER 2012 PAGE 8 C. Response to Mr. Mittag: Mr. Miller noted the area where the solar installation is located is not used for recreation. It was a wiser site than others that were proposed. He noted that using the rooftops of the Cairns buildings could be an issue with the tenant, and the city does not control those buildings. Mr. Miller noted the city doesn't have a formal policy on this. It would fit in with the "path to sustainability." Mr. Engels questioned the "clean air" e-mails that have been received. Mr. Miller said there is a"resolution of intent" which doesn't require the city to do anything. Members were OK with putting this on a future agenda. Executive Session: Ms. Mackenzie moved that the Council meet in executive session to discuss appointments with no action to be taken following the session. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. Regular Session: Ms. Mackenzie moved that the Council meeting adjourn. Ms. Dooley seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 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SERV12 DEC 12 SCHEDULE SERV- RE 125.27 0.00 . /--/-- OTHER OTHER PAPER 4090 AD - LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICE 68.40 0.00 . /--/-- OTHER OTHER PAPER 4091 AD - AEC DEPT 273.00 0.00 . /--/-- OTHER OTHER PAPER 4110 ADS - CHORUS & VET MEM. 273.00 0.00 . /--/-- OTTERC OTTER CREEK AWNINGS 2236 AWNING CRANK 30.00 0.00 . /--/-- PALOMBO PALOMBO, EUGENE 1210-00034 REFUND - PAID TWICE 1552.08 0.00 . /--/-- �I� i 12/14/12 City of South Burlington Accounts Payable Page 5 02:33 pm Check Warrant Report # cingalls Unpaid Invoices For Check Acct 1(OENERAL FUND) From / / To 12/17/12 Purchase Discount Amount Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Description Amount Amount Paid Number Date PEOPLESRS PEOPLE'S UNITED BANK 16962 PUB RETIREMENT - 2012-13 15225.00 0.00 . /--/-- PERMA PERMA-LINE CORP OF NEW ENGLAND 137283 DRIVE PINS 145.00 0.00 . /--/-- PERMA PERMA-LINE CORP OF NEW ENGLAND 137356 ROAD SIGN 135.15 0.00 . /--/-- PHONE PHONE COMPANY, THE 417630 RE-RECORDED AUTO DIRECTO 84.00 0.00 . /--/-- PIKE PIKE INDUSTRIES INC 684729 ASPHALT 435.60 0.00 . /--/-- PITHY PITNEY BOWES PURCHASE POWER 111812 PD POSTAGE METER 209.45 0.00 . /--/-- PVC PVC PROFESSIONAL VEHICLE CORP 23488 LED DOME LIGHT 385.20 0.00 . /--/-- PVC PVC PROFESSIONAL VEHICLE CORP 23513 FLOURESCENT LIGHT 60.00 0.00 . /--/-- RAD R.A.D. SYSTEMS 13RCT1545 GREALIS, KEVIN RENEWAL 50.00 0.00 . /--/-- RAD R.A.D. SYSTEMS 13RCT 1969 JOHNSON, ANDREW RENEWAL 50.00 0.00 . /--/-- RAD R.A.D. SYSTEMS 13RCT 3785 SUPERNEAU, SARAH RENEWAL 50.00 0.00 . /--/-- RADION RADIO NORTH GROUP INC 24130043 REMOTE MICROPHONE 249.00 0.00 . /--/-- RHR SMITH RHR SMITH & COMPANY 12449 FIELD WORK - FY 2012 800.00 0.00 . /--/-- ROGERW ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY 2624 PRE-EMPLOY INESTIGATION 500.00 0.00 . /--/-- ROUSET ROUSE TIRE SALES 30046832 BUS TIRES 1029.20 0.00 . /--/-- SANEL SANEL AUTO PARTS INC 13PU8374 AUTO SUPPLIES 5.30 0.00 . /--/-- SANEL SANEL AUTO PARTS INC 13PT8086 GAUGE 19.79 0.00 . /--/-- SBCOLLINS SBCOLLINS, INC 211797 DIESEL FUEL 11865.78 0.00 . /--/-- SBCOLLINS SBCOLLINS, INC 211796 UNLEADED FUEL 16291.51 0.00 . /--/-- SBSIGNS SB SIGNS INC 1158 DOOR TAGS 50.00 0.00 . /--/-- SCHMIDTN SCHMIDT, NICHOLAS 7868 REFUND - INS. SENDING PA 461.30 0.00 . /--/-- SCOTTL SCOTT'S LINE STRIPING, INC. 12522 PAVEMENT MARKING 1188.09 0.00 . /--/-- SHARMA SHARMA, SHIV 12072012 REFUND - REFI PAID TWICE 2193.51 0.00 . /--/-- SLEIMAN SLEIMAN, CHRISTINE 54502 REFUND - BASKETBALL 30.00 0.00 . /--/-- SMALLDOG SMALL DOG ELECTRONICS 869715 IPAD 772.73 0.00 . /--/-- SOSDIS SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRI 1114 REIMBURS-FREE PRESS MEDI 100.00 0.00 . /--/-- STA STATE OF VERMONT 7823 STANDS & ORGANIZER 35.00 0.00 . /--/-- STA STATE OF VERMONT 12112012 ACT 250 4C1128-1A 50.00 0.00 . /--/-- STAPL STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAGE 8023330277-2 WRIST REST W/ MOUSE PAD 60.39 0.00 . /--/-- STAPL STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAGE 8023559630 OFFICE SUPPLIES 34.22 0.00 . /--/-- STAPL STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAGE 8023620401 SANDISK 10.62 0.00 . /--/-- STAPL STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAGE 8023688922 MOUSE 13.99 0.00 . /--/-- STAPL STAPLES BUSINESS ADVANTAGE 8023753654 OFFICE SUPPLIES 42.46 0.00 . /--/-- STITZ STITZEL, PAGE & FLETCHER, P.C. 21907 AUGUST, 2012 29747.19 0.00 . /--/- STITZ STITZEL, PAGE & FLETCHER, P.C. 22020 SEPTTEMBER, 2012 20690.18 0.00 . /--/-- STONE STONE ENVIRONMENTAL INC 7741 FORMER FUND#273; 12-077 2790.70 0.00 . /--/ SYMBOL SYMBOLARTS, LLC 0178081-IN BADGES 324.00 0.00 . /--/-- TEAM EJP TEAM EJP SO BURLINGTON 4618230 SEWER PLUG 4.47 0.00 . /--/-- TECHGROUP TECH GROUP 29867 REPAIR PC 450.00 0.00 . /--/-- TECHGROUP TECH GROUP 35331 BULK HOUR LABOR 6750.00 0.00 . /--/-- TECHOROUP TECH GROUP 30167 ASSIST CONNECT. TO SERVE 75.00 0.00 . /--/-- TIFCO TIFCO INDUSTRIES INC 70817347 SHOP SUPPLIES 320.63 0.00 . /--/-- TWINST CED - TWIN STATE 8124-743584 BULB 1.06 0.00 . /--/-- TWINST CED - TWIN STATE 8124-742923 TOGGLE SWITCH/SALT SHED 135.13 0.00 . /--/-- UNIFIRST UNIFIRST CORPORATION 036 1520408 MAT CLEANING 72.30 0.00 . /--/-- UNION UNION SHOP APPAREL, INC 3636 UNIFORMS - T-NECKS W/LOG 1291.72 0.00 . /--/- - UNION UNION SHOP APPAREL, INC 3632 UNIFORMS - NAVY JOB SHTS 140.24 0.00 . /--/- UNITPS UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE MAIL/13 FIRST CLASS/STANDARD MAI 380.00 0.00 . /--/-- URIEJOAN URIE, JOAN D TRUST 12102012 TAX REFUND - 0255-01903 29.99 0.00 . /--/-- VANASSE VANASSE HANGEN BRUSTLIN, INC. 0157219 KENNEDY DR.POND #57406.0 82.50 0.00 . /--/-- 12/14/12 City of South Burlington Accounts Payable Page 6 02:33 pm Check Warrant Report # cingalls Unpaid Invoices For Check Adct 1(OENERAL FUND) From / / To 12/17/12 Purchase Discount Amount Check Check Vendor Invoice Invoice Description Amount Amount Paid Number Date VER IZON VERIZON WIRELESS 2830401975 CELL PHONE - JUSTIN 39.16 0.00 . /--/-- VER IZON VERIZON WIRELESS 2831043411 PD PHONES 1912.20 0.00 . /--/-- VER IZON VERIZON WIRELESS 2831050849 REC PHONES 120.38 0.00 . /--/-- VERASCP VERMONT ASSOC CHIEFS POLICE 01112013 2013 LEGISLATIVE LUNCHEO 20.00 0.00 . /--/-- VERHUM VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL 622/36139 ZALEWSKI ON NOV. 4, 2012 75.00 0.00 . /--/-- 'TERLG1 VERMONT LEAGUE OF CITIES & TOW 2012-12603 P&Z WORXSH-KLUGO & MILLE 110.00 0.00 . /--/-- . VERPET VERMONT PET FOOD & SUPPLY 3-025663 DOG FOOD & TOY 50.93 0.00 . /--/-- VERPL VERMONT PLANNERS ASSOCIATION RENEW 2013 MEMBERSHIP DUES (6) 150.00 0.00 . /--/-- VERSYS VERMONT SYSTEMS INC 38359 SOFTWARE CONTRACT 3612.00 0.00 . /--/-- VIKING VIKING-LIVES (USA) 4449854 PLOW CONNECTORS 518.00 0.00 . /--/-- VIKING VIKING-LIVES (USA) CR0000000752 TRACKLESS BLOWER -500.00 0.00 . /--/-- VLCT PACI VLCT PACIF 0101-033113 PROPERTY & CASUALTY 215240.00 0.00 . /--/-- VMCTA VMCTA 1001-093013 MUNICIPAL MEMBER RENEWAL 75.00 0.00 . /--/ -- WEBS WEBB COMPANY, F W 38263942 PARTS 18.08 0.36 . /--/-- WEBB WEBB COMPANY, F W 38283206 FITTINGS SALTER 101.28 2.03 . /--/-- WES WESSPUR TREE EQUIPMENT IN-76186 TREE MAINTENANCE PARTS 814.13 0.00 . /--/-- WHITCO WHITCOMB CONSTRUCTION CORPORAT 641038 CRUSHED GRAVEL - LIBRARY 120.22 0.00 . /--/-- WHITCO WHITCOMB CONSTRUCTION CORPORAT 640964 CONCRETE STONE 30.18 0.00 . /--/-- WHITCO WHITCOMB CONSTRUCTION CORPORAT 641093 CRUSHED GRAVEL 63.93 0.00 . /--/-- WHITER WHITE RIVER PAPER COMPANY 512421 GARBAGE BAGS 81.26 0.00 . /--/-- WILLIWW WILLISTON WORXWEAR 416 PD - WOMEN'S PANTS 247.45 0.00 . /--/-- ZOLL ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION 1962088 SERVICE RECERT. FEE 285.00 0.00 . /--/-- Report Total 576,468.82 13.22 0.00 SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL To the Treasurer of CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON, We Hereby certify that there is due to the several persons whose names are listed hereon the sum against each name and that there are good and sufficient vouchers supporting the payments aggregating $ .**576,455.60 Let this be your order for the payments of these amounts. Rosanne Greco Sandra Dooley Paul Engels Helen Riehle Pam Mackenzie South Burlington Water Dept. Accounts Payable Check Register Date: 12/18/12 Date Check No. Paid To Memo Amount Paid 12/18/2012 2239 South Burlington Ace 16.47 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/30/2012 VI-12936 700017-NOVEMBER 4.98 4.98 11/30/2012 VI-12941 700016-NOVEMBER 11.49 11.49 12/18/2012 2240 Aldrich&Elliott,PC 222.24 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 12/5/2012 VI-12946 73793 222.24 222.24 12/18/2012 2241 All Seasons Excavating 23,105.98 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/29/2012 VI-12947 27430 23,105.98 23,105.98 12/18/2012 2242 Blueprints, Etc. 30.00 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/27/2012 VI-12937 176057 30.00 30.00 12/18/2012 2243 Champlain Water District 51,332.13 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/30/2012 VI-12944 SBWD-271 51,332.13 51,332.13 12/18/2012 2244 Champlain Water District 100,525.62 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/30/2012 VI-12939 SBWD-265 304.26 304.26 11/30/2012 VI-12940 NOVEMBER 100,221.36 100,221.36 12/18/2012 2245 E.J. Prescott, Inc. 5,701.49 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/27/2012 VI-12935 4619016 139.80 139.80 11/28/2012 VI-12938 4616693 2,753.78 2,753.78 11/27/2012 VI-12942 4615184 1,020.00 1,020.00 11/28/2012 VI-12943 4615339 1,766.84 1,766.84 12/3/2012 VI-12948 4621363 21.07 21.07 12/18/2012 2246 City Of South Burlington 240.72 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/30/2012 VI-12949 NOV ADD'L SEWER 240.72 240.72 12/18/2012 2247 City Of South Burlington 10,191.64 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 12/1/2012 VI-12950 ADD'L NOV STORMWATER 10,191.64 10,191.64 12/18/2012 2248 Ti-Sales Inc. 1,869.80 Date Voucher Number Reference Voucher Total Amount Paid 11/26/2012 VI-12945 INV0018991 1,869.80 1,869.80 Printed: December 12, 2012 Page 1 of 2 South Burlington Water Dept. Accounts Payable Check Register Date: 12/18/12 Date Check No, Paid To Memo Amount Paid Total Amount Paid: 193,236.09 SOUTH BURLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Printed: December /2, 2012 Page 2 of 2 4-3 From: Bob Rusten, Deputy City Manager To: City Council Subjects: Analysis of FY 2013 November Unaudited Financials Date: December 13, 2012 City wide expenses as an aggregate are trending a little higher than last year same period but are at 41% attainment which is on track as we approach the mid-year mark of this fiscal year. Also based on a comparison of expenditures through November of FY 13 vs. FY 12 we seem to be doing fine regarding our expenses. Total General Fund revenues are 2% below same time last year but much of this is timing which should self-correct as we head into the second half of the fiscal year. In keeping with our change in process as was outlined in last month's narrative, please find comments below from Department Heads that have responded to our monthly query and as reviewed by Finance. Highlights are as follows by department: City Clerk Recording fees are running ahead of budget due to record low home interest rates. I expect the revenue for the last quarter of FY 2013 will be more in line with the monthly budgeted revenue. Pet Licenses and Beverage/Cabaret are seasonal revenues and we will see more revenue beginning in those line items starting in January. City Clerk Salaries are over budget due to the assistant working in our office for the Presidential election. In addition, because the two administrative services part-time staff were not hired there was a need for additional overtime by the Clerk's staff. Election expenses will be considerably over budget for the year primarily due to the Board of Civil Authority request that the new voting districts be posted twice in the Other Paper at a cost of approximately $2,000. School expenses related to the elections will be assigned to the School Election Expense line. This additional cost was unbudgeted. BCA Appeals/Abatements will be considerably over budget due to the unexpected event of the City of Burlington appealing 124 properties now owned by the City of Burlington and the Burlington International Airport. Public Safety Police—Alarm fines are above expectation due to the assistance of a community volunteer who is serving as the Alarms Coordinator and collecting all current and past due fines. Auto Corporal is expensed early in the fiscal year. Included in the "Conference expense" line are a number of items that can be classified as "In-service Training". Vehicle repairs are higher than expected due to two crashes that required damage repairs. Tasers were all purchased at the beginning of the fiscal year. The slight overage in this line item is due to a price increase. Fire and Ambulance—"Films and Books" contains the purchase of code books and inspection materials. This line item should come in within budget. Disposable Medical Supplies continue to be costly. We are currently searching for alternative vendors for many of our supplies. We are currently reviewing invoices that we had posted to "Medical Equipment" to insure that they were correctly assigned. Once this analysis is complete, we are confident that this line item will come in under 100%. 1 Public Works, Stormwater and Sewer Highway-In "City Highway a majority of our pothole/small asphalt patch work occurs in the main paving season, which typically doesn't start until June. We don't expect to incur a lot of expense in this item the second half of FY 2013. Tree Care will be a recurring item that you will see popping up pretty consistently. The wind storm of July 4th, a mere four days into FY 2013, hit us hard and we had a large amount of associated expenses for tree removal, pruning and cleanup. Fleet purchases are expended to the "Vehicle Replacement" line. They typically are made at the beginning of each fiscal year. As a whole, this line item will come in under budget when paired with its revenues. Sewer-Now that we have a fully functioning lab, including a new lab tech, we needed to upgrade our inventory of supplies to perform the tests that we had previously paid to have done offsite by private firms. This would explain the hump in Lab Supplies. In general, our Chemicals will remain in flux for a while as we adjust to the new treatment process at Airport Parkway as a result of the upgrade. Our Engineering Consulting line item includes expenses that were previously approved by the Council (in recognition of the Sewer surplus being higher than budgeted) for design and permitting of the new Disc Filter system at Bartlett Bay. Stormwater-Our Vehicle Repairs include almost $3.000 worth of repairs done to to sweeper. Said sweeper was stopped at a red light when an opposing vehicle crashed into it. The other driver was found at fault, but unfortunately this person does not have insurance. Normally we simply bill these expenses to the insurance company of the driver, but in this case we could not. Culture and Recreation Recreation—Leave time turn-in has been incorrectly expensed to general salaries and will be reclassified in next month's financials and correctly allocated going forward. Program salaries are currently at 82% which is consistent with the prior years, and will reflect an increase in the revenue side as well to offset all expenditures for program salaries. Chorus Directors are paid in December for the first semester, so this expenditure will be reflected in next month's financials. Skating Lessons have not been held yet due to the lack of instructors, so no income or expense is posted to date. Youth program expense are up, but reflected in an increase in revenue will more than offset this. Planning and Zoning All revenue categories are at or slightly ahead of budget projections. Based on past years trends, we anticipate these to moderate slightly over the less active winter months, to bring us in line with the projected budget. Natural Resources/Energy contains an Educational & Special Projects line which far exceeded budget due to a condominium energy efficiency outreach project. Staff has submitted a reimbursement request for $43,600 of the 46, 400 expenditure. The balance will be paid from Energy/Planning Consulting. 2 I 1 A B C D E F 1 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund I 4 ' 5 ' %Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget 1 Expenditures Expended $(+/-) Paid November 7 . 1 8 GENERAL GOVERNMENT EXP. 9 CITY COUNCIL 10 General Expenses $1,000.00 $847.95 84.80% $152.05 $181.17 11 14olmes Road $0.00 $4,251.51 100.00% (($4,251.51) 12 Interim Zoning $0.00 $126.80 100.00% ($126.80) $0.00 13 G.B.I.C. $5,000.00 $5,000.00 100.00% 14 V.L.C.T. $18,735.00 $18,735.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 15 Chamber of Commerce $4,000.00 _ $0.00 0.00% $4,000.00 $0.00 16 Social Services $36,000.00 ' $0.00 0.00% $36,000.00 $0.00 17 CCTV-Clickable Meetings $5,000.00 $5,000.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 18 Councilors $5,480.00 $0.00 0.00% $5,480.00 $0.00 19 Liquor Control $300.00 $0.00 0.00% $300.00 $0.00 20 Front Page Forum $3,960.00 $3,960.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 21 USA Triathlon $5,000.00 $5,000.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 22 - - 23 Total CITY COUNCIL $84,475.00 $42.921.26 50.81% $41,553.74 $181.17 24 25 ADMINISTRATIVE INSURANCE 26 Pad went to Sickbank Fund $25,000.00 $0.00 I 0.00%' $25,000.00 $0.00 27 Employee(s)Payout $17,120.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $17,120.00 $0.00 28 FICA/Medicare $9,100.00 $0.00 0.00% $9,100.00 $0.00 29 Vision Plan $1 SOOAO $0.00 0.00%-1 $1,500.00 $0.00 30 Vision Plan Sick Bank 1 $124.00 $0.00 0.00%7 $124.00 $0.00 31 Short Term Disability Pla $4,716.00 $1,742.25 36.94% $2,973.75 $348.45 32 bong Term Disability $6,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,000.00 $0.00 33 Group Health Insurance ; $212,000.00 $79,926.31 37.70% $132,073.69 $14,929.44 34 Health Sick Bank ; $38,750.00 $21,722.20 56.06% $17,027.80 $4,349.51 35 Group Life Insurance $5,000.00 $3,527.35 70 55%, $1,472.65 $705.47 36 Group Dental Insurance $19,750.00 $8,009.78 40.56% $1 1,740 22 $1,659.03 37 Dental Sick Bank $7,235.00 1 $1538.93 t 21.27% $5,696.07 $333.25 38 Pension $173 850.00 $I 1.113.78 6.39% S162,736.22 $0.00 39 ICMA Match $21,500.00 $30 t 697.46 142.78% ($9,197.46)' $7,229.85 40 Workers Comp Insurance $29,538.00 ($3,542.70)_[ -11 99% $33,080.70 $0.00 41 Property Insurance $27,425.00 $12,162.12 1 44.35°'0 $15,262.88 $0.00 42 VLCT Unemployment Insuran $15,001).00 $6,934.74 I 46.23% $8,065.26 $0.00 - - 43 Deductibles/Coinsurance $10,000.00 $10,000.00r 100 00% $0.00 $0.00 44 COBRA $20,200.00 $0.00 1 0.00% $20,200.00 $0.00 45 46 Total ADMINISTRATIVE INSI, $643,808.00 $183,832.22 1 28.55% $459,975.78 $29,555.00 47 48 CITY MANAGER 49 City M r Salaries Perm $360 800.00 $I69 260.99 46 91%,I 6 -6- g $191,539 Ol $46,605.66 50 City Mgr.Salaries-Other Other _ _ $2,500.00 $0.00 0.00%[ $2,500.00 $0.00 51 Fringe Benefits 1 - $0.00 0.00%� $11,400.00 $0.00 52 FICA/Medicare $27,792.00 $12,125.37 43.63%+ $15,666.63 $2,742.81 53 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 1 $300.00 100.00% ($300.00)1 $0.00 54 Oftice Supplies $2,500.00 $1,236.15 49.45% $1,263.85 L $170.65 55 Advertising $7,500.00 $1 994 54 26.59% $5,505.46 $0.00 56 Telephone $2,704.00 $1,690.58 62 52 $1,013 42 1 $481.53 57 Postage 1 $3,500.00 : $30.01 0.86%r $3,469.99 $2.95 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 1 A B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 4 %Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures l Expended $(+/-) Paid November 58 Dues and Subscriptions $2,000.00 $554.00 I 27.70% $1,446.00 $429.00 59 Printing $8,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $8,000.00 $0.00 60 Consulting Fees $2,000.00 $145.00 7 25% $1,855.00 $0.00 61 Travel&Training $8,000.00 $3,490.69 43.63% $4,509.31 $972.78 62 63 Total CITY MANAGER $438,696.00 $190,827.33 1 43.50% $247,868.67 $51,405.38 64 65 Legal,Accouting,Actuary 66 Hiring-required testing $1,000.00 $161.00 16.10% $839.00 $0.00 67 Payroll Processing Fees $10 500.00 $3,828.07 36 46% $6,671.93 $880.56 68 Planning and Design Litig $35,000.00 $23,772.59 67.92% $11,227.41 $23,738.59 69 Appeals/Abatements $7,500.00 $3,552.25 i 47 6/° $3,947.75 $823.75 70 Gen Govt.Actuaries/Pensi $86,000.00 $15,480.84 18.00% $70,519.16 $0.00 71 Legal Retainer $42,000.00 $3,922.50 9.34% $38,077.50 $3,922.50 72 Gen Govt.Audit/Accountin $25,000.00 $17,000.00 68.00% $8,000.00 $0.00 73 Background Checks $4,500.00 $210.00 I 4.67% $4,290.00 $0.00 74 Legal/Labor/Suits $60,000.00 $5,570.04 1 9.28%I $54,429.96 $3,177.48 75 76 Total Legal,Accouting,Actuary $271,500.00 $73,497.29 27.07% $198,002.71 $32,542.88 77 78 Administrative Services 79 Muni Bld Cleaning Supplie $1,750.00 $348.13 1 19.89% $1,401.87 $213.44 80 Natural Gas Car-Parts $100.00 $217.36 1 217.36% ($117.36) $0.00 81 2nd Floor Copier $5,000.00 $1 88 I.39 37.63%% $3,1 I8 6I $365.87 82 Muni Bid Cleaning Service $15,000.00 $4,812.55 t 32.08% $10,187 45 $1,161.51 83 City n-- - 0 9 . 31 .6 31 84 Continale1Mai�und-Infrastr $278,875.00$35,000.00 ) $30,7)0.48 t �7I% $31,60�61 $282.31 c c Contingency Fund-Infrastr---_ 11.02% S248,154.52 $2,421.15 85 Computer Services $60,000.00 $14 544.62 1 24 24%. $45,455.38 $1,348.75 86 Computer Sotlware/Hardwar $48,934.00 $18,991.92 _ 38.81% $29,942 08 $1,186.19 i 87 Electricity-City Hall $43,000.00 $12,107.72 t 28.16% $30,892.28 $2,421.35 88 ([eating/Cooling-City Hall $21,000.00 $1 161.12 1 5.53% $19,838.88 $489.90 89 Street Lights $163,350.00 $71,374.21 43 69% $91,975.79 $13,182.30 90 Sewer User Rent $2,500.00 t $0.00 0.00% $2,500.00 $0.00 91 Stormwater User Rent $280,000.00 ; $66,709.17 23.82% $213,290.83 $0.00 92 Urban Art Project Park $2,500.00 i $0.00} 0.00% $2,500.00 $0.00 93 Health Officer Reimbursem $100.00 1 $0.00 ' 0.00% $100.00 $0.00 94 Emergency Mgmt Center $1 1 000.00 1 $831.59 7.56% $10,168.41 $831.59 95 Generator Prevent Maint. $600.00 1 $0.00 0.00% $600.00 $0.00 96 Othophotographs/Impact Fe $27,500.00 $0.00 t 0.00% $27,500.00 $0.00 I 97 Council/Board Secretary $8,075.00 $0.00 t 0 00%1 $8,075.00 $0.00 98 Possible Additional Staff $30,000.00 $0.00 1 0.00%. $30,000.00 ' $0.00 99 I'D 3rd Floor Lease $6,000.00 1; $0.00 0.00%. $6,000.00 $0.00 100 Comm. Member Conf.Reg. $0.00 $165.00 100.00% ($165.00) $165.00 101 - - -r i $1,040,284.00S227.262.65 t 21 85/o $81 102 Total Administrative Services ° $813,OZ 1.35 $24,069.36 103 _ f 104 CITY CLERK 1 105 City Clerk Salaries-Perm. $150,245.00 $73,696.30 : 49.05% $76,548.70 $19,371.07 106 Leave Time Turn-In $3,500.00 1 $0.00 0.00% $3,500.00 $0.00 107 Overtime $1,000.00 $1 343.97 134 40%L ($343.97) $621.12 108 Fringe Benefits $750.00 $0.00 0.00°4' $750.00 $0.00 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 2 1 I A B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 - -- , - - 5 %Budget ; FY 2013 MTD 6 Account 1 Budget Expenditures Expended $(+/-) !Paid November 109 FICA/Medicare $11,571.00 $5,973.22 51.62% $5,597.78 $1,568.39 110 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $300.00 ' 100.00% ($300.00) $0.00 111 General Supplies $2,400.00 $761.68 31.74% $1,638.32 _ $345.74 112 Animal Control $9,600.00 $927.73 9.66% $8,672.27 $0.00 113 Election Expenses $6,050.00 $6,070.81 100.34% ($20.81) $2,170.29 114 School Election Expenses $2,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $2,000.00 $0.00 115 Telephone $1,622.00 $419.38 25.86% $1,202.62 $56.04 116 Postage $5,200.00 $4.64 0.09%' $5.195.36 $0.00 117 Dues and Subscriptions $275.00 $135.00 49.09% $140.00 $0.00 I 118 Printing $355.00 $195.69 55.12% $159.31 $0.00 - --- - - ------ 119 Board of Civil Authority $3,596.00 $106.90 2 97% $3,489.10 $0.00 o 120 Election Workers $6,200.00 $1.811.00 I 29.21% $4,389.00 $975.00 121 I3CA Appeals/Abatements $854.00 $999.35 117.02% ($145.35) $982.45 122 Office Equip Maintenance $4,050.00 $803.44 19.84% $3,246.56 $0.00 123 Travel&Training $3,500.00 $1,223.64 34.96% $2,276.36 $52.11 124 Photocopier Lease Prin $1,805.00 $445.37 24.67% $1,359.63 $0.00 125 126 Total CITY CLERK $214,573.00 $95.218.12 44.38%'. $119,354.88 . $26,142.21 127 128 GENERAL LEDGER/PAYROLL 129 G.L./PyrI.Salaries-Perm_ i $62,200.00 $24,595.20 39.54% $37,604.80 $7,027.20 130 FICA/Medicare 1 $4,758.00 1 $1,797.24 /°37.77 $2,960.76 $514.62 + o 131 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $300.00 100.00% ($300.00) $0.00 132 Office Supplies $655.00 - $183.71 28.05% $471.29 $0.00 133 Telephone $541.00 $268.55 i 49.64% $272.45 $18.69 134 Postage $2,305.00 $5.74 0.25% $2,299.26 $0.00 135 Dues&Memberships $250.00 $190.00 1 76.00% $60.00 $0.00 136 Printing $425.00 $493.96 116.23% - -- - -- - - - ($68.96) $0.00 137 Equipment Contracts $480.00 $105.44 21.97% $374.56 $0.00 138 Travel&Training $500.00 $0.00 0.00% $500.00 $0.00 139 140 Total GENERAL LEDGER/PA' $72,114.00 $27,939.84 38.74°10 $44,174.16 $7,560.51 141 142 ASSESSING/TAX 143 Assessing/Tax Sal.-Perm. $105 100.00 $42 428.46 40.37% $62,671.54 $10,102.01 144 Overtime $500.00 $142.11 _ 28.42% $357.89 $0.00 145 FICA/Medicare $8,078.00 $3.569.41 44.19% $4,508.59 $847.25 146 Office Supplies - - $600.00 - $418.23 69 71% $181.77 $0.00 i 147 Tax Sales Advertising $350.00 $0.00 0.00% $350.00 $0.00 148 Telephone $1,081.00 $343.90 31.81% $737.10 $37.35 149 Postage $4,800.00 i $2,644.69 55.10% $2,155.31 $0.00 150 Dues and Memberships $600.00 , $25.00 4.17% $575.00 $0.00 151 Printing ;-- -- -- 72.36% --------$1,300.00 $940.63 $359.37 $0.00 152 Equipment Maintenance $500.00 ! $106.58 21.32%, $393.42 $0.34 153 NEMRC/APEX $1,300.00 1 $882.00 67 85%r $418.00 i $73.50 154 Travel&Training - $500.00 C $966.98 193.40%' ($466.98)1 $0.00 155 156 Total ASSESSING/TAX $124,709.00 $52,467.99 42.07% -_ T $72,241.01 $11,060.45 157 158 PLANNING/DESIGN REVIEW T 159 Planning Salaries-Perm. I $192,500.00 $74,686.11 38.80% S11 7,813.89 $19,850.82 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 3 A • B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 1 5 °A Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended $(+/-) IPaid November 160 Planning Salaries-Other $0.00 $6,225.00 100.00% ($6,225.00) $3,825.00 161 heave Time Turn-In $3,000.00 ' $0.00 0.00% $3,000.00 $0.00 162 Overtime $4,500.00 $2,535.50 56.34% $1,964.50 $904.87 163 Fringe Benefits $750.00 $0.00 0.00% $750.00 $0.00 164 FICA/Medicare $15,071.00 $6,016.85 39.92% $9,054.15 $1,518.30 165 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $300.00 100.00% ($300.00) $0.00 166 Office Supplies $4,000.00 $897.33 22.43% $3,102.67 $600.24 167 Public Meeting Advertisin $3,500.00 $5 1 1.98 14.63% $2,988.02 $58.80 168 Telephone $1,622.00 $322.79 19.90% $1,299.21 $56.04 169 Postage $1,500.00 ($346.76) -23.12% $1,846.76 $0.00 170 Dues and Subscriptions $1,200.00 $793.00 i 66.08°10 $407.00 $0.00 171 Document Printing $2,000.00 $0.00 I 0.00% $2,000.00 $0.00 172 Maps $5,000.00 $357.50 r 7.15% $4,642.50 $162.50 173 Consultants $20,000.00 $228.65 1.14% $19,771.35 $0.00 174 PC;ORB Stipends $9,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $9,000.00 $0.00 175 -I ravel&Training $4,500.00 $61.99 I 1.38% $4,438.01 _ $40.00 176 Legal Permit Review $3,000.00 $0.00 I 0.00% $3,000.00 ' $0.00 177 Independent Technical Rev $10,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $10,000.00 $0.00 178 Reimbursable grant expend $15,000.00 $0.00 ! 0.00% $15,000.00 $0.00 179 180 Total PLANNING/DESIGN RE $296,143.00 $92.589.94 1 31.27% $203,553.06 $27,016.57 181 i 182 NATURAL RESOURCES 183 Dues and Subscriptions $700.00 $0.00 0.00% $700.00 $0.00 184 Educational Programs $200.00 $46,400.00 23200.00% ($46,200.00) $0.00 185 Special Projects Material $1,700.00 $387.00 22.76%' $1,313.00 $0.00 186 Printing $100.00 $0.00 0.00% $100.00 $0.00 187 Travel&Training $200.00 $0.00 0.00% $200.00 $0.00 188 189 Total NATURAL RESOURCESI $2,900.00 $46,787.00 1613.34%' ($43,887.00) $0.00 190 L --- 191 OPERATING TRANSFERS OUT 1 192 Ambulance Department $155,000.00 $155,000.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 193 Fuel Pump Reserve Fund $8,200.00 $0.00 0.00% $8,200.00 $0.00 194 Open Space Reserve Fund $277,750.00 $0.00 ! 0.00% $277,750.00 $0.00 195 Reappraisal Fund $70,500.00 $0.00 ! 0.00% $70,500.00 $0.00 196 To undesignated reserve f $50,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $50,000.00 $ 197To Capital Improvements $190,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $190,000.00 $0.00 198 199 Total OPERATING TRANSFEII $751,450.00 $155,000.00 20.63% $596,450.00 $0.00 200 201 Total GENERAL GOVERNMO $3,940,652 00 $1,188,343.64 30.16% $2,752,308.36 $209,533.53 202 203 PUBLIC SAFETY 204 FIRE DEPARTMENT 205 Fire Salaries-Permanent $1,054,500.00 $476,194.70 45 16%I $578,305.30 $154,393.97 206 Fire Salaries Other $18,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $18,000.00 $0.00 Salaries-Other - L - - 207 Leave Time Turn-In 1 $8,000.00 1 $0.00 0.00% $8,000.00 $0.00_ 208 I loliday Pay $119 000_00 1 $76 894.25 64 62% $42,105.75 $38,210.57 209 Fair I.abor Standard O/T $77,000.00 $52 762.1 I 68 52%L $24,237.89 $22,252.29 210 F/D Overtime-Fill-In $90,000.00 t $43,003.41 47.78%, $46,996.59 $16,382.31 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 4 A B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 % Budget F1'2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended $(+/-) Paid November 211 F/D Overtime-Training $18,000.00 $14,677.59 81.54% $3,322.41 $1 1,314.17 212 F/D Overtime-Emerg Call $21,000.00 $4,242.95 20.20%. $16,757.05 $2,105.85 213 Wellness/Fitness $9,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $9,500.00 $0.00 214 Fire-Off Duty Outside Emp $6,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,000.00 $0.00 215 Administrative Assistance $2,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $2,500.00 $0.00 1 216 Payment to Sick Bank Fund $15,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $15,000.00 $0.00 217 Fire Inspector $100,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $100,000.00 $0.00 218 Fringe Benefits $2,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $2,000.00 $0.00 219 FICA/Medicare $96,583.00 $51,886.24 53.72% $44,696.76 $18,989.97 220 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $300.00 100.00%' ($300.00) $0.00 221 Vision Plan $3,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $3,000.00 $0.00 222 Disability $560.00 $0.00 0.00% $560.00 $0.00 223 Group Health Insurance $202,100.00 $75,761.76 1 37.49% $126,338 24 $18,769.23 224 Group Life Insurance $2,425.00 $1,069.63 J 44 1 1% $1,355.37 $282.63 225 Group Dental Insurance $17,300.00 $6,412.47 ' 37.07% $10,887.53 $1,856.02 226l'ension 1 $82,815.00 $0.00 0.00(NI $82,815.00 $0.00 227 Office Supplies 1 $1,500.00 $900.13 60 0l%j $599.87 $8.35 228 Vaccinations-HEP $1,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,000.00 $0.00 229 REHAB Supplies $300.00 $19.74 6.58% $280.26 $0.00 230 Station Operating Supply $4,500.00 $920.86 20.46/0. $3,579.14 $173.38 231 Maintenance Tools $420.00 $0.00 0.00%', $420.00 $0.00 232 Unitbrms-Career $5,650.00 $5,676.79 100.47%' ($26.79) $647.00 233 Uniforms-Call $5,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $5,500.00 $0.00 234 Firefighting Clothing $5,000.00 $153.81 ' 3.08% $4,846.19 $137.61 235 Vehicle Tools $1,000.00 $280.07 28.01% $719.93 $54.90 236 Gas Chiefs vehicle&rei $1,400.00 $0.00 ; 0.00% $1,400.00 $0.00 237 Diesel Fuel $28,000.00 $10,677.23 38.13% $17,322.77 $2,126.00 238 Oil $600.00 $0.00 T 0.00% . _.-$6000.00 $0.00 239 Films and Books $1,100.00 $578.20 ! 52.56% $521.80 $578.20 240 Fire Prevention Materials $3,500.00 $1,469.26 41.98% $2,030.74 $84.95 241 Fire Extinguishers $300.00 ! $20.00 6.67% $280.00 $0.00 242 Airpacks Maintenance $8,000.00 ' $3,007.35 T 37.59% $4,992.65 $326.35 243 Telephone I $15,680.00 $4,259.21 27.16% $11,420.79 ' $717.26 244 Postage-Tool Shipping $400.00 . $183.58 45.90% $216.42 $11.00 245 Dues and Subscriptions i $1,500.00 ' $703.32 46.89% $796.68 $259.00 246 Workers Comp Insurance $136,563.00 $77,153.44 56.50% $59,409.56 $0.00 247 Property Insurance ' $31,533.00 $15,015.52 . 47.62% $16,517.48 $0.00 248 Fire Station Maintenance $14,000.00 $6,391.26 45.65% $7,608.74 $1,507.39 249 Laundry and Bedding $900.00 $75.00 8.33% $825.00 $75.00 250 Radio Repair $1,500.00 $725.50_- 48.37% $774.50 $0.00 i251 Vehicle Maintenance $8,500.00 $2,164.17 25.46°'0 $6,335.83 $57.40 252 Vehicle Repair I $10,000.00 $8,392.33 83.92% $1,607.67 $1,470.21 253 Equipment R&M 1 $4,000.00 f $949.15 23.73% $3,050.85 $493.72 254 Computers Contract ACS $2,000.00 $1,582.53 79.13°%% $417.47 $1,307.35 255 Conferences $1,500.00 I $0.00 0.00% $1,500.01) $0.00 256 Traininv_Schools $4,000.00 $1,235.73 30.89% $2,764.27 $83.61 257 Training Equipment $750.00 $0.00 0.00%' $750.00 $0.00 g 258 Recruiting&l'estin $500.00 $0.0.00 0.00% $500.00 $0.00 259 Fire Station#2 Heat/Elec $11,000.00 $3.997.10 36.34°b $7,002.90 $467.41 260 Fire Safety Equipment $110,480.00 $47,113.84 42.6,1%. $63,366.16 $10,533.25 261 FID Furniture/Equipment $4,000.00 $1,581.75 39.54% $2,418.25 $0.00 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 5 I 1 A B C D E F - 1 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 i 3 General Fund 1 4 % Budget 5 Bd I 1 I FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget I Expenditures Expended $(+/-) Paid November 262 Inspector Car/Equipment $25,000.00 1 $0.00 0.00% $25,000.00 $0.00 263 Firefighting Equipment-ho $10,000.00 $2,241.78 22.42% $7,758.22 I $449.95 264 Equipment Notes Prin $174,285.00 $174 198.52 99.95% $86.48 $0.00 265 Note on Quint Fire Truck $160,955.00 S602.545.71 374.36°/ ($441,590.71)1 $0.00 266 I 267 Total FIRE DEPARTMENT C $2,742,099.00 $1,777,417.99 64.82% $964,681.01 ' $306,126.30 268 269 AMBULANCE I 270 Permanent Salaries $401,700.00 $140,469.30 34.97% $261,230.70 $0.00 271 EMT Pay $58,600.00 $0.00 1 0.00% $58,600.00 $0.00 272 holiday Pay $65,300.00 $16.885.81 1 25.86% $48,414.19 $0.00 273 Fair Labor Standard OT $24,000.00 $13.317.84 55.49% $10,682.16 $0.00 274 Overtime Fill-In $20,000.00 $1 1,620.38 58,10% $8,379.62 $0.00 275 Overtime-Training $9,900.00 _ $1,468.17 14.83% $8,431.83 $0.00 276 Overtime-Emergency Call $7,500.00 $932.87 12.44% $6,567.13 I $0.00 277 Payment to Sick Bank Fund $5,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $5,000.00 ! $0.00 278 Wellness $3,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $3,500.00 $0.00 279 Fringe Benefits $1,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,500.00 $0.00 280 FICA/MEDI $40,468.00 $14,359.57 35.48%; $26,108.43 $0.00 281 Group Health Insurance $77,000.00 $24,877.83 32.31%i $52,122.17 $0.00 282 Group Life Insurance $800.00 $343.52 42.94%~ $456.48 $0.00 283 Group Dental Insurance $6,600.00 $4,382.13 66.40% $2,217.87 $518.24 284 Pension $31,550.00 $0.00 0.00% $31,550.00 $0.00 285 ICMA Match $1,900.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,900.00 $0.00 286 Doctor Service Stipend j $2,400.00 $0.00 0.00% $2,400.00 $0.00 287 Office Supplies $2,000.00 $477.97 j, 23.90% $1,522.03 $23.98 288 Medical Supplies-Disposab $17,000.00 $15,702.49 1 92.37% $1,297.51 $1,971.22 289 Medical Supplies-Oxygen i _ $4,000.00 $1,039_79I27.24% $2,910.21 $192.75 290 Medical Equipment Replace $3,000.00 ' $3,179.94 1_ 106.00% ($179.94) $420.00 291 Uniforms-Career ! $6,000.00 $1,245.94 1 20.77% $4,754.06 $160.00 292 Diesel Fuel ! $7,500.00 $2,930.37 39.07% $4,569.63 $561.03 293 Training Films and Books _ $750.00 $0.00 0.00% $750.00 $0.00 294 Telephone I $2,278.00 $465.15 20.42% $1,812.85 $116.48 295 Billing Postage $3,000.00 $5.74 0.19% $2,994.26 $0.00 296 Dues&Subscriptions $500.00 $120.00 24.00% $380.00 $0.00 297 Workers Comp Insurance $34,968.00 $19,086.98 54.58% $15,881.02 $0.00 298 Property Insurance $7,267.00 $3,460.42 47.62% $3,806.58 $0.00 299 Contingency-Equipment Rep $10,000.00 $2.489.33 24.89% $7,510.67 $0.00 300 Radio Repair $1,500.00 $66.00 4.40% $1,434.00 $0.00 301 Vehicle Maintenance $2,500.00 $649.59 25.98% $1,850.41 $171.18 302 Vehicle Repair 1 $5,000.00 $546.62 10.93% $4,453.38 $0.00 303 Equipment R&M $1,250.00 1 $225.97 18.08% $1,024.03 $159.00 304 Billing Software/Upgrades $8,278.00 $2,428.15 29.33% $5,849.85 $0.00 305 Med Equipment Maintenance $1,000.00 $483.00 48.30% $517.00 $0.00 306 Training Programs $2,000.00 $881.20 44.06% $1,118.80 ($1,150.00) 307 Training Equipment $500.00 $0.00 0.00% $500.00 $0.00 308 To Reserve Fund-Training $10,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $10,000.00 $0.00 309 Radios Purchase $6,200.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,200.00 $0.00 310 EMS Patient Care Discript $37,250.00 $34,211.08 91.84% $3,038.92 $0.00 311 312 Total AMBULANCE ! $931,459.00 $318,403.15 1 34.18% $613,055.85 $3,143.88 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 6 A I B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 , °A, Bud get FY 2013 MTD 6 Account 1 Budget Expenditures Expended_ $(+/-) Paid November 313 - -314 POLICE DEPARTMENT 315 Police Salaries-Permanent 1 $2,343,000.00 $972,149.79 41 49°/ $1,370,850.21 1 $217,523.42 316 Police Salaries-Other $15,000.00 $300.30 2.00%I $14,699.70 1 $0.00 317 leave Time Turn-In $12,000.00 $0.00 0 00%'1 $11000.00 ' $0.00 318 Police Salaries-Overtime $220,000.00 $90,657.07 41.21% $129,342.93 $27,102.76 319 I{olidaPay -------- - - - ------- ) i- 1 $184,900.00 $I14,316.92 61.83% $70,583.08 $39,365.76 320 Automatic Corporal $15,750.00 $17,079.24 l 108.44% ($1,329.24) $4,722.80 321 Shift Differential $38,500.00 $0.00 I 0.00% $38,500.00 $0.00 322 Drug Task Force Personnel $39,336.00 $0.00 1 0.00% $39,336.00 $0.00 323 Off-Duty Police Salary $28,750.00 $0,00 f 0.00% $28,750.00 $0.00 324 Payment to Sickbank Fund $42,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $42,000.00 $0.00 325 Fitness 1 $27,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $27,000.00 $0.00 326 Reparative Board Grant Ac I $72,803.00 $0.00 0.00%I $72,803.00 $0.00 327 Fringe Benefits i $6,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,500.00 $0.00 328 FICA/Medicare $216,430.00 $91,570.88 42.31% $124,859.121 $21,897.70 329 Vision Plan $5,100.00 $0.00 0.00%' ---- $5,l00.0o r- - $0.00 4 330 Disability Insurance $9,500.00 $3,022.75 31.82% $6,477 25 ' $604.55 331 Group Health Insurance $472,500.00 $196,689.09 41.63%! $275,810.91 ; $42,879.24 332 Group Life Insurance $5,650.00 $2,415.30 42.75W $3,24___-_ $3,234.70 $483.06 333 Group Insurance 1 % ,4 334 Pension Insurance $185,650.000 $18,782.06$909.26 40_49/0 $22,417 94 $4,177.77 $184,740 74 $0.00 335 ICMA Match $2,000.00 $0.00 000%I $2,ODU.00 $0.00 336 Office Supplies $10,500.00 $3,296.92 31.40%, $7,203.08 $1,242.86 337 Range Supplies 1 $10,045.00 $0.00 r 1 0.00% $10,045.00 $0.00 338 Radio Equipment-Supplies $500.00 $0.00 0.00%! $500.00 $0.00 339 Investigative Supplies $8,000.00 $1,054.88 13.19%1 $6,945.12 $228.70 340 Youth Services Supplies 1 $6,800.00 $2,878.34 42.33%. $3,921.66 $0.00 341 Traffic Unit Supplies $2,400.00 $360.00 i 15.00% $2,040.00 $0.00 g Supplies o $500.00 342 Emergency•M mnt Su lies $500.00 $0.00 0.00% $0.00 343 K-9 Supplies $3,000.00 $481.57 16.05%. $2,518.43 $82.42 344 Janitorial Supplies $3,001).00 $396.17 13.2 1/° $2,603.83 ' $218.25 345 Uniform Supplies $31,700.00 $20,266.15 63.93% $11,433.85 $2,920.63 346 Tires $10,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $10,000.00 $0.00 347 Gas and Oil , $68,000.00 $29,756.22 1 43.76% - - $38,243.78 $6,441.00 348 Telephone $32,548.00 $9,097.89 27.95%; $23,450.11 $2,271.31 349 Postage $2,800.00 $907.56 32.41% $1,892.44 1 $82.55 350 Dues and Subscriptions $3,164.00 $355.44 11.23%7 $2,808.56 ' _ $205.44 351 Workers Comp Insurance 1 $120,524.00 $54,305.80 45.06%; $66,218.20 ' $0.00 352 Property Insurance $154,232.00 $73,443.96 47.62%' $80,788.04 $0.00 353 TowingServices 1 $1,500.00 $195.00 1_.00%! $1,305.00 $125.00 354 Crime Prevention Supplies $5,500.00 $1,086.80 19.76%I $4,413.20 $0.00 355 Building Maintenance $9,000.00 $3 937.40 43.75% $5,062.60 $538.00 _, 356 Uniform Cleaning 41 $14,000.00 $4,204.21 30.03%; $9,795.79 $1,181.25 357 Office Equip.Contract 1 $5,000.00 $2,486.54 49.73%! $2,513 46 ! $1,163.55 358 Generator Prevent Maint $700.00 $0.00 0.00%11 1 $0.00 P1 -... o $700.00 359 Radio Equip. Maintenance $10,000.00 $900.00 9.00 1 $9,100.00 $0.00 T 360 Vehicle Repair I $40,000.00 $22,534.24 56.>4%; $17,465.76 $6,582.64 361 Computer Connections Syst 1 $18,826.00 $0.00 0.00%. $18,826.00 I $0.00 362 Equipment Maintenance $2,500.00 $1,030.00 41.20% $1,470.00 - $0.00 363 Records Management System $10,000.00 $2,125.00 1 21.25% $7,875.00 $0.00 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 7 A 8 C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 % Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended_ $(+/-) Paid November 364 Consulting Services $6,840.00 $1,701.00 24.87% $5,139.00 $567.00 365 Tower Lease $300.00 $0.00 0 00% $300.00 $0.00 ' 366 Animal Control Contracts 1 $21,000.00 $680.00 3.24%1 $20,320.00 $230.00 367 Conferences $3,800.00 $4,047.68 106.52% ($247.6831 $2,126.56 368 In-Service Training $28,380.00 $2,954.64 10.41% $25,425.36 $1,505.00 369 Recruiting&Testing $2,500.00 $895.50 35.82% $1,604.50 $4.61.00 370 Tuition Reimbursement $6,800.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $6,800.00 $0.00 371 Electric-Police Dept. 1 $55,000.00 $15,306.85 27.83%I $39,693.15 $4,358.55 372 I[eat/Hot Water $9,800.00 $495.94 5� 06%Ir $9,304 06 $92.36 _ - - --- --- -- - - --- 373 Radio Installation Utilit 1 $740.00 $96.42 1 13.03%, $643.58 $23.72 374 Building Common Area Fees $42,260.00 $25,661.37 60.72% $16,598.63 $2,514.69 375 Cleaning/Building Service $33,800.00 $9,207.59 27.24% $24,592.41 $6,097.59 376 Vehicles and Equipment $109,500.00 $1,135.95 1.04% $108,364.05 $1,135.95 377 Radio Equipment $12,160.00 $0.00 0.00%! $12,160.00 $0.00 378 Taser Replacement $5.469.00 $5,522.25 100.97% ($53.25) $0.00 379 BYRNE Grant -- $25,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $25,000.00 $0.00 380 381 Total POLICE DEPARTMENT $4,931,657.00 $1,810,697.94 36.72% $3,120,959.06 $401,153.08 382 383 Total PUBLIC SAFETY $8,605,215.00 $3,906,519.08 ' 45.40% $4,698,695.92 $710,423.26 384 385 STREETS&HIGHWAYS 386 IIIGHW AY DEPARTMENT 387 Highway Salaries-Perm. $643,510.00 $247,385..4--4 3$.44°0 $-396,124 56 $64 ,386.O1 388 Leave Time Turn-In 1 $11,000.00 $0.00 0.00%, $11,000.00 $0.00 389 Highway Salaries-Overtime $35,000.00 $5,623.58 16.07%1 $29,376.42 $2,892.99 390 On-Call Pay $18,700_00 $0.00 0.00 i $18,700.00_ $0.00 391 Payment to Sickbank Fund r $9,600.00 $0.00 0A0%4 $9,600.00 _ $0.00_ 392 Fringe Benefits $1,200.00 $85.25 7.10 1 $1,114.75 $0.00 393 FICA/Medicare 7 $53,337.00 $19,919.28 37.35%1 $33,417.72 $5,161.75 394 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $300.00 100.00% ($300.00)' $0.00 395 Vision Plan 1 $1,650.00 $0.00 0_00%__ $1,650.00 _ $0.00 396 Drug/Alcohol/Phys Testing $500.00 $0.00 0.00% $500.00 $0.00 397 Disability Income $3,560.00 $1.120.55 31 48%' $2,439.45 $224.11 398 Group l lealth Insurance $188,000.00 $66.008.18 I 35.1 I%1 $121,991.82 $13.742.03 j 399 Group I,ife Insurance $1,775.00 $714.00 40.23% $1,061.00 $142.80 400 Group Dental Insurance $13,100.00 $6495.80 1 49.59%' $6,604.20 • $1,420.73 401 Pension $99 191).00 $1 909.20 1 1.92% $97,280.80 $0.00 402 ICMA Match $23,000.00 $0.00 I 0.00% $23,000.00 $0.00 403 Office Supplies $2,200.00 $398.61 1 18.12% $1,801.39 $53.59 404 Traffic Light Supplies $25,000.00 $6.662.15 1 26 65%' $18,337.85 $11.46 405 Sign Supplies $5,020.00 $3,660.87 72.93% $1,359.13 • $538.16 406 City Highways Material $18,200.00 $10,374.13 57.00%1 $7,825.87 $1,595.80 I 407 Road Striping $20,000.00 $4,971.04 24.86%1 $15,028.96 ' $0.00 408 Winter Salt $86,000.00 $0.00 1 0.00%T $86,000.00 1 $0.00 409 Winter Sand $1,700.00 $0.00 0.00%r $1,700.00- $0.00 410 Winter Liquid Deicer Addi - $14,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $14,000.00 $0.00 411 Building Supplies $2,500.00 $466.19 18.65% $2,033.81 ; $0.00 412lJniforms $13,000.0(1 $6,332.23 48.71%1 $6,667.777 $834.59 413 Vehicle Repair Parts j $82,500.00 $58,428.69 70.82%1 $24,071.31 1 $5,652.05 414 School 13us Parts $32,500.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $32,500.00 1 $0.00 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 8 A I_ B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 I 5 °i4 Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures i Expended $(+/-) Paid November 415 Gasoline $18,000.00 - $3,449.39 ' - 19.16% 14,55--.- $---- 8.36)$14,550.61 ($15,508.36) 416 Oil $3,500.00 $4,790.02 136.86% ($1,290.02) $557.28 417 Diesel Fuel $55,000.00 $2,910.68 '1. 5.29% $52,089.32 ($2,084.59) 418 Diesel/Gasoline Non City. S130,000.00 $71.097.79 1 54.69% $58,902.21 $17,004.94 419 Telephone/Internet $9,733.00 $2,907.01 j 29.87% $6,825.99 $891.22 420 Workers Comp Insurance $50,957.00 $23 600.48 1 46 31% $27,356.52 $0.00 421 Property Insurance $46,351.00 $22,132.08 1 47.75% $24,218.92 $46.00 422 Building Maintenance $30,000.00 $6,573.60 21.91% $23,426.40 $1,177.65 423 Generator Prevent Maint $630.00 $0.00 0.00% $630.00 $0.00 i 424 Hydrant Maintenance $100.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $100.00 $0.00 425 Tree Care $8,000.00 $6 777 48 84.72% $1,222.52 $5,612.16 t 426 Equipment Rental/Purchase $3,500.00 $1,134.07 I 32.40%, $2,365.93 $0.00 ---- ---- --- 427 Office Equipment Maintnce $5,405.00 $409.88 1_ /°�58 $4,995.12 $206.20 428 Travel&Training g $5,405.00 $1,469.37 27.19% $3,935.63 $339.64 429 Utilities-Garage $16,000.00 $5,710.17 35.69% $10,289.83 $1,200.51 430 Utilities-Garage Heat $14,000.00 $587.92 4.20% $13,412.08 $338.28 431 Traffic Lights $33,000.00 $15,902.50 48.19% $17,097.50 $3,180.22 432 Vehicle Replacement $360,000.00 $252,342.16 70.10% S107,657.84 $128,610.00 433 I lighway Paving - $460,950.00 $7,409.28 j 1.61% $453,540.72 ($185.78) 434 Curbs and Sidewalks $15,000.00 $591.65 1 3.94% $14,408.35 $591.65 435 Spc Prjcts/C Beautifictn $90,000.00 $1,347.90 1_ 1.50% $88,652.10 $0.00 436 Equipment Notes Prin $69,812.00 $0.00 1 0.00%, $69,812.00 $0.00 437 438 Total HIGHWAY DEPARTME $2,831,085.00 S871.998.62 30.80% $1,959,086.38 $238,633.09 439 440 Total STREETS&HIGHWAY5. $2,831,085.00 $871,998.62 30.80% $1,959,086.38 $238,633.09 441 442 ( ULTURE AND RECREATION 443 RECREATION ADMINISTRATION _ - - $8- 162. 2 % 4, 21 5.6 444 Rec.Admin.Salaries-Perm. $199,000.00 $84 162.80 42._9,b $114,837�0 ' $21,065.60 445 Leave Time Turn-In $9,193.00 $0.00 0.00% $9,193.00 $0.00 446 Taxable Fringe Benefits $6,400.00 $2,203.29 34.43%' $4,196.71 $1,753.18 447 FICA/Medicare $15,927.00 $6,485.42 40.72% $9,441.58 $1,642.19 448 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $399.73 100.00%. ($399.73)I1 ($1,200.00) 449 Office Supplies $2,900.00 $893.43 30.81%I $2,006.57 $91.83 450 Telephone - $2,163.00 $350.02 16.18%' $1,812.98 $74.73 451 Postage I $800.00 $0.00 0.00%i $800.00 $0.00 -- - - 452 Dues and Subscriptions tions $625.00 $610.00 97.60%1 $15.00 $0.00 453 Workers Comp Insurance 1 $11,157.00 $5,045.08 45.22% $6,1 1 1.92 $0.00 454 Property Insurance ! $9,738.00 $4,636.96 47.62°10 455 Scholarships 1 $1,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,000.00 $0.00 456 Printing 'I $3,600.00 $3,204.00 89.00% $396.00 $0.00 457 Sott'aare/Printer Contract $3,500.00 $135.48 I 3.87% $3,364.52 $8.98 458 Travel&Training $1,700.00 $1,436.63 1 84.51% $263.37 $333.45 459 460 Total RECREATION ADMINIS, $267,703.00 $109,562.84 40.93% $158,140.I6 $23,769.96 461 462 PROGRAMS 463 Salaries-Programs $9,900.00 $8,180.60 8263°0 $1,719.40 $338.25 464 PICA/Medicare $757.00 $474.02 I 62.62% $282.98 ' $25.88 465 General Supplies $3,000.00 $2,364.99 j 78.83%, $635.01 $2,364.99 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 9 A B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 I 5 %Budget F1'2013 MTD 6 Account _- Budget Expenditures 1 Expended± $(+/-) Paid November 466 Advertising - _ I $2,200.00 $771.71 35.08% $1,428.29 I - $374.00 467 School Wage Reimbursement $1,000.00 • $0.00 0.00%I $1,000.00 $0.00 468 469 Total PROGRAMS $16,857.00 $11,791.32 69.95% $5,065.68 $3,103.12 470 471 RED ROCKS PARK 472 Red Rocks Park Salaries $9,800.00 $8,196.89 83.64% _ $1,603.11 $0.00 473 FICA/Medicare $750.00 $627.06 83.61% $122.94 $0.00 474 General Supplies $2 000.00 $1,556.00 1 77.80% $444 00 $0.00 475 Printing $400.00 $0.00 0.00%, $400.00 $0.00 T 476 l;tilities $500.00 $95.53 ; 19.11% $404.47 $18.20 477 478 Total RED ROCKS PARK $13,450.00 $10.475.48 77.88% $2,974.52 $18.20 479 480 FACILITIES 481 Park Salaries $3,900.00 $1,821.50 46.71% $2,078.50 $153.00 482 FICA/Medicare $298.00 $139.33 46.76° $158.67 $11.70 483 Supplies $3,500.00 $2,046.24 58.46/0' $1,453.76 $34.80 484 Fuel-Gas I $2,700.00 $331.41 12.27% $2,368.59 $107.09 485 Recreation Path Committee $400.00 $34.32 8.58%. $365.68 $34.32 486 Electric-Jaycee Park $1,400.00 $555.24 39.66%. $844.76 $156.50 487 Electric Dorset Park $3,200.00 $871.71 27.24%1 $2,328.29 $247.97 488 Electric-Overlook Park $350.00 $132.63 37.89/o $217.37 $20.38 489 Electric-Tennis Courts $600.00 $292.34 48.72%''I $307.66 $42.72 490 Facilities Improvements ' $32,851.0(1 $32,738.50 99.66% $112.50 $0.00 491 492 Total FACILITIES $49,199.00 $38,963.22 79.20% $10,235.78 $808.48 r 493 494 LEISURE ARTS 495 Playground Director $3,600.00 $0.00 _ 0.00% $3,600.00 _ $0.00_ 496 Arts&Crafts Instructors $1,000.00 $1,013.00 101.30% ($13.00) $0.00 497 Adult Programs Supplies/I $2,000.00 $2,266.05 1 13.30%' ($266.05) $0.00 498 FICA/Medicare $352.00 $320.86 j 91.15% $31.14 $37.87 -; --- -- -- - - -- off- - - -- 499 Kids Playground Supplies - $500.00 $30.07 6.01.o $469 93 $30.07 500 Kids Arts&Crarts Materi $400.00 $0.00 0.00% $400.00 $0.00 501 Senior Club Contract $3,800.00 $1088.29 28.64°% $2,711.71 I $495.00 502 Reimbursement-Bus Drivers $1,000.00 $0.00 $I,000.00 0.00% $0.00 503 Artists Contracts $400.00 $0.00 0.00% $400.00 I $0.00 504 Chorus Directors $3,600.00 $0.00 0.00 1 $3,600.00 1 $0.00 505 506 Total LEISURE $16,652.00 $4,718.27 28.33% $11,933.73 $562.94 507 508 SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 509 Adult Programs } $14,930.00 $9.379.49 62.82%' $5,550.51 $1,498.49 51 icare 00 I -- ---- --- � --- -- -- -- - 34_�l%0 ($27.54)I $27.54 5111 S / o lessons elVt urSknte 9 100.00 $27.54 7.j4 ]00.3 i% 511 Jazzercise of Shelburne $5,100.00 $1,750.00 $3,350 00 $445.00 I $ $0.(0 0.00% _- $9,100.00 $0.00 513 Special Events $6,500.00 $1,183.00 18.20% $5.317.00 $559.00 514 Swim Lessons-Sport/Fit 1 $8,800.00 $2,250.00 25.57%I $6,550.00 I $1,350.00 , 515 Youth Programs $1 1 200.00 $16,722.62 149.,1% ($5,522 62); $14,100.62 516 Great Escape Tickets $17,000.00 $13,643.00 80.25%' $3,357.00 $0.00 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 10 A B C D E F 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 % Budget FY2013MTD_ 6 - � � p ( ) I Pall November Budget Expenditures Expended $ +/ - -- - - - - - --- - --- ---- - -- - -- r 517 Afternoon Skiing-Middle S $4,500.00 $0.00 0.00%' $4,500.00 $0.00 518 Afternoon Skiing-Orchard $6,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,500.00 $0.00 519 Spec.Activities Salaries $7,000.00 $1,555.00 22.21% $5,445.00 $55.00 i 520 FICA/Medicare $536.00 $4.21 0.79%'. $531.79 $4.21 521 Supplies $5,000.00 $4,480.58 89.61%1 $519.42 $1,795.81 522 Telephone $1,330.00 1 $641.45 48.23%1 $688.55 $259.96 I 524 r $97,496.00 $5 1,636.89 52.96/o 524 Total SPECIAL ACTIVITIES ° $45,859.11 $20,095.63 525 526 COMMUNITY LIBRARY 527 Library Salaries $264,800.00 $100,738.90 , 38.04% $164,061.10 $28,072.77 528 FICA/Medicare i $20,257.00 $7,963.37 39.31% $12,293.63 S2,219.77 529 Group Health Insurance $44,000.00 $1 1585.70 I 26.33% $32,414.30 $2,482.73 530 Group Dental Insurance $3,605.00 $1.359.42 37.71% $2,245.58 $294.38 531 Library Supplies $5,074.00 $2,153.91 42.45% $2,920.09 $185.98 532 Books-Adult $13,686.00 $4,409.52 32.22% $9,276.48 $837.19 533 Books-Children $7,550.00 $2,169.33 28.73% $5,380.67 $317.25 534 DVDs/CDs-Adult $4,110.00 $1,258.93 30.63% $2,851.07 $0.00 535 DVDs/CDs-Children $1,556.00 $224.85 14.45% $1,331.15 $13.75 536 Program Supplies-Arts/Cra $1,450.00 $115.27 7.95% $1,334.73 $0.00 537 Blanchette Expenditures $8 500.00 $2 533 03 i 29.80% $5,966.97 $849.29 538 Blanchette/Subscriptions- $1,230.00 $1,253.00 1 101.87% ($23.00) $1,253.00 539 Postage $1,500.00 $l 1 10.07 74.00% $389.93 j $0.00 540 Dues and Subscriptions $290.00 $0.00 - 0.00% p $290.00 $0.00 541 Online&Print Subscripti $4,336.00 $52.00 1._0% $4,284.00 '' $0.00 542 Property Insurance $7,366.00 $3,507.40 47.62% $3,858.60 _ - - $0.00 543 School Use $56,287.00 $0.00 0.00% $56,287.00 $0.00 544 Community Programs $4,365.00 $1,185.95 27.17% $3,179.05 $50.00 545 Service to Shut-1ns $25.00 $0.00 0.00%' $25.00 J $0.00 --- - $506.27 101.25%I ($6.27)' $0.00 546 Bookmobile $500.00 ' 1 -__ 547 Computer Operations $1,220.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,220.00 ! $0.00 548 Travel&Training $915.00 $290.34 31.73%; $624.66 $0.00 549 Furniture $4,465.00 $0.00 0.00% $4,465.00 $0.00 550 Computer Improvements $3,000.00 $445.40 14.85% $2,554.60 $445.40 551 Office Renovations $400.00 $0.00 1 0.00%' $400.00 $0.00 552 C/L Photocopier Lease Pri $2,760.00 $671.88 1 24.34% $2,088.12 $0.00 553 554 Total COMMUNITY LIBRAR\ $463,247.00 $143.534.54 30.98% S319,712.46 $37,021.51 555 556 CAPITAL/PARK MAINTENANCE 557 Park Maint.Salaries-Perm. $148,500.00 $53,037.95 35.-2% $95,462.05 $8,513.41 558 I,eave Time Turn-In $1,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,000.00 $0.00 559 Park Maint.Sal.-Overtime $9,000.00 $1.263.19 14.04% $7,736.81 $540.51 560 Parks On Call $1,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,000.00 $0.00 561 Payment to Sickbank Fund $3,000.00 S0.00 - 0.(10% $3,000.00 ' $0.00 --- 562 Taxable Fringe Benefits $0.00 $165.00 100.00% ($165.00)'� $165.00 563 FICA/Medicare $12,200.00 $4,185.73 ' 34.31% $8,014.27 _ $701.86 564 Vision Plan $425.00 $0.00 0.00% $425.00 $0.00 565 Disability Income $720.00 $292.90 40.68% $427.10 $58.58 566 Group Health Insurance $48,100.00 $1 1,992 32 24.93% $36,107.68 $2,402.74 567 Group Life Insurance $420.00 $175.00 41.67%; $245.00 ' $35.00 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 15 A I B C D E F 1 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 °/,Budget ' FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended $(+/-) Paid November 568 Group Dental Insurance $3,200.00 $1,027.91 32.12%i $2,172.09 $222.59 569 Pension $24,700.00 $0.00 0.00% $24,700.00 $0.00 ' 570 ICMA Match $6,150.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,150.00 $0.00 571 Park Supplies $16,500.00 $12,013.21 72.81% $4,486.79 $1,509.01 572 Cemetery Supplies $300.00 $300.00 100.00% $0.00 $286.52 573 Recreation Path Supplies $1500.00 $99.42 j 6.63% $1,400.58 $0.00 574 Workers Comp Insurance $5,503.00 $2,492.48 j - 45.29% $3,010.52 $0.00 575 Piopert Insurance $4 796 00 $2,283.88 47.62% $2,512.12 $0.00 576 Recreation Path lmprvmnts $7,500.00 $1,460.75 19.48% $6.039.25 $0.00 577 578 Total CAPITAL/PARK MAINT $294,514.00 $90,789.74 30.83% $203,724.26 $14.435.22 i 579 - - - -- - - 580 Total CULTURE AND RECRE. $1,219,118.00 $461,472.30 t 37.85% $757,645.70 $99,815.06 581 582 OTHER OPERATING ENTITIES 583 County Court $123,500.00 $123,488.71 99.99%1 $11.29 $0.00 584 Winooski Valley Park $54,000.00 $54,000.00 100.00%j $0.00 $0.00 585 C C."I.A. $397,843.00 $265,228.00 66.67% $132,615.00 $132,614.00 586 Regional Planning $18,269.00 $18,270.00 100.01%. ($1.00)! $0.00 587 Metropolitan Planning $17,101.00 $17,101.00 100.00%. $0.00 $0.00 588 589 Total OTHER OPERATING Ei\ $610,713.00 $478,087.71 1 78.28% $132,625.29 $I32,614.00 590 591 Total OTHER ENTITIES $610,713.0(1 $478,087.71 78.28% S132,625.29 . $132,614.00 592 I 593 CURRENT PRINCIPAL,BONDS i 594 Public Works Facility $98,568.00 $98,568.00 100.00%' $0.00 $98,568.00 595 Kennedy Dr Reconstrction $22,440.00 $22,508.00 100.30% ($68.00) $22.508.00 596 Lime Kiln Bridge $22,440.00 $2.2,508.00 i 100.30% ($68.00) $22,508.00 ----------- 597 PENSION LIABILITY-PRINCI $262 974 00 $0.00 ' 0.00% $262,974 00 $0.00 598 1/D Building Improvements $30 090.00 $30,005.00 99.72%. $85.00 $30,005.00 599 Emergency Center $130,000.00 $130,000.00 100.00% $0.00 $130,000.00 600 Police Headquarters $360,000.00 $360,000.00 100.00% $0.00 $360,000.00 601 Parkland, 1992 $35,000.00 $35,000.00 100.00% $0.00 $35,000.00 602 Parkland/Brand Farm $40,000.00 $40,000.00J 100.00%. $0.00 $40,000.00 603 604 CURRENT PRINCIPAL. $1,001,512.00 $738,589.00 73.75% _ - 2,9 30 -- $7 Total j $262,923.00 $738,589.00 605 606 CURRENT INTEREST,BONDS 607 Public Works Facility $45,795.00 $24,166.90 52.77%1 $21,628.10 1 $24,166.90 608 Kennedy Dr Recnstrction $13,038.00 $6,767.03 51.90% $6,270.97 i $6,767.03 609 Lime Kiln Bridge $I3 038.00 $6,767.03 1 51.90%, - $6,270.97-7 $6,767.03 610 prNSION LIABILITY-INTER[ $397,974.00 S'0.00 0.00Vc7r $397,974.00 $0.00 611 P/D Building Improvements $17,483.00 $9,021.00 51.60%1 $8,462.007 $9,021.00 612 Emergency Center $7.131.00 $4.725.50 66.27%, $2,405.50 $4,725.50 $1�3,200 00 613 Police Headquarters $263,358.00 50.58%, $130,158.00 $133,200.00 614 Parkland, 1992 - $1,148.00 $349.16 30.41% _ $798.84 $349.16 • _ 615 Parkland/Brand Farm $3,400.00 $2.266.40 66.66% $2,266.40 616 617 Total CURRENT INTEREST, IF $762,365.00 S 187.263.02 24.56% S575,101.98 $I87,263.02 618 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 1 _ A 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 General Fund 4 5 '% Budget FIT 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended $(+/-) Paid November 619 Total GENERAL FUND $18,970,660.00 $7,832,273.37 41.29% Sl 1,138,386.63 52,316,870.96 620 621 Total All Funds $18,970,660.00 $7,832,273.37 41.29% S11,138.386.63 S2.316.870.96 12/14/2012 General Fund Expenditures-FY 2013-November 13 A B C D E F G 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 Water Polution Control 4 -5 % Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended S(+/-) Paid November 7 8 W/POLLUTION CONTROL EXPS. 9 Salaries Permanent $346.244.00 $170,729.60 49.31%1 $175,514.40 S44,386.62 10 Payment to Highway-wages $245,760.00 $245.760.00 100.00%1 $0.00 $0.00 11 Leave Time Turn-In $10,000.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $10,000.00 $0.00 12 Salaries-Overtime $40.000.00 $16,822.30 42.06%1 $23,177.70 $3,887.14 13 Payment to Sick Bank Fund $6.850.00 $0.00 0.00%' $6,850.00 $0.00 14 Payroll Svc&Testing to $700.00 $0.00 0.00% $700.00 $0.00 15 I AFO Certification $9,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $9,000.00 $0.00 16 Sick Bank Payouts - - $13,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $13,500.00 $0.00 17 Fringe Benefits 1 $600.00 $0.00 0.00% $600.00 $0.00 18 FICA/Medicare $29,350.00 $14,201.30 48.39% $15,148.70 $3,660.89 19 Payment to Highway-FICA/M S 18.801.00 $18,800.00 99.99% $1.00 $0.00 20 Nontaxable Fringe Ben. $0.00 $300.00 100.00% ($300.00) $0.00 21 Vision Plan $610.00 $0.00 0.00% $610.00 $0.00 22 Disability Income S1.555.00 $1.312.20 84.39% $242.80 $262.44 23 Group Health Insurance $85.000.00 $26.281.58 30.92%II $58,718.42 $5,911.84 24 Benefit Reimbursed to Hig $62.328.00 $62,238.00 99.86% $90.00 $0.00 25 Group Life Insurance $840.00 S341.25 40.63%1 $498.75 $68.25 26 Group Dental Insurance $4.800.00 $2,343.33 48.82% $2,456.67 $516.97 27 Pension _ - $33.370.00 $9,19.22 27.30% $24,260.78 $0.00 - -28 ICMA Match $3.907.00 $0.00 0.00% $3,907.00 $0.00 29 Pension Payment to Highwa S67.470.00 S67,470.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 30 Pension Note Payment S38.675.00 S38.675.00 100.00%1 $0.00 . S38,675.00 31 Office Supplies S2.000.00 S314.44 15.72 1 $1,685.56 $73.15 32 Plant Supplies-lights $60.000.00 $16,840.98 28.07%1 $43,159.02 $6,109.95 33 Ferrous Chloride $2.000.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $2,000.00 $0.00 34 Polymer $32.000.00 $20,350.48 63.60% $11,649.52 $7,800.75 35 Sewer Line Maint/Supplies $20.000.00 $7,283.35 36.42% $12,716.65 $2,459.74 36 Pumping Station Supplies $25.000.00 $7,583.29 30.33% $17,416.71 $440.22 37 Laboratory Supplies $8,000.00 $7,272.29 90.90% $727.71 $391.42 38 Caustic Soda and Lime $11,000.00 $28,873.65 262.49% ($17,873.65)• $5,742.66 39 Alum $17,000.00 $9,854.03 57.96% $7,145.97 $0.00 40 Water-Airport-B/B-Pump $2,000.00 $24.86 1.24% $1,975.14 $0.00 41 Generator Preventive Main S3.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $3,000.00 $0.00 42 Clothing Supplies S3.600.00 $650.32 18.06% $2,949.68 $492.96 43 Truck Parts S8.000.00 $2,875.64 35.95% $5,124.36 $108.08 44 Gas-Diesel Fuel-Oil $16.000.00 $6.422.42 40.14%' $9,577.58 $1,196.56 45 Fuel-Airport Parkway $25.000.00 $11,801.71 47.21% $13,198.29 $3,741.23 46 Fuel-Bartlett Bay $6.000.00 $126.81 2.11% $5,873.19 $39.41 47 Telephone and Alarms $3.785.00 $2,059.21 54.40% $1,725.79 $700.81 48 Postage $100.00 $43.68 43.68% $56.32 $0.00 49 Memberships/Dues $350.00 $0.00 0.00%, $350.00 $0.00 � 50 Discharge Permits $7.000.00 $120.00 1.71%1 $6,880.0(1 $0.00 51 Workers Comp Insurance S 14 861.00 56.619.70 -14.54%1 $8,241.30 $0.00 52 Property Insurance $34.728.00 _ $16,536.96 47.62°/01 $18,191.04 $0.00 53 Unemployment Insurance $2.000.00 $924.64 4623%1 $1,075.36 $0.00 54 Billing Payment to CWD $32,500.00 $16.250.00 50.00%11 $16,250 00 _- $0.00 55 Soil/Sludge Management $265.000.00 $36.698.50 13.85% $228,301.50 T S15 336.82 56 Discharge Water Testing $1.500.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,500.00 $0.001 57 Environmental Studies $500.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $500.00 $0.00 I 12/14/2012 Sewer Expenditures-FY 2013-November 1 A B C 0 E F G 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 Water Polution Control 4 5 %Budget' H FY 2013 MTDi, 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended' $(+/-) 4Paid November 58 Landfill ll Fees $7.500.00 $1411.36 18.82%I $6,088.64 $0.00 59 7 o GE-Audit/Actuary $4,832.00 $4,832.00 100 00/°{i $0.00 . $0.00 60 Engineering/Consulting S7 500.00 $16,020.26 213.60% ($8,520.26), S16,02026 61 Landfill Engineering S 10.000.00 $165.00 1.65% $9,835.00 $165.00 62 Office Equipment Contract $1.200.00 $83.34 6.95% $1,116.66 $0.00 63 Wireless Communication $1 000.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,000 00 $0.00 64 Administativc Services $137 280.00 $137.280.00 100.00%1 $0.00 $0.00 65 13urlinuton Sewer Lines S99.000.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $99,000.00 $0.00 66 Travel&Training S-!500.00 $144.42 3.21%. $4.355.58 $0.00 67 Utilities-Pumping Station S70.000.00 $15,986.41 22.84%' $54,013.59 $3,128.36 68 Utilities L/Fill Station $7.000.00 $2 493.57 35 62%l $4,506.43 $1,877.54 69 Electric-Airport Parkway $200.000.00 $59,665.56 29.83% $140,334.44 S28,462.55 70 Electric-Bartlett Bay $105.000.00 $36,337.29 34.61% $68,662.71 $17,348.29 71 Replacement-Vehicles S20.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $20,000.00 $0.00 72 Pumps Replacements $100,000.00 $40,846.37 40.85% $59,153.63 ; $700.50 73 Pump Repairs $25.000.00 $11.382.05 45.53% $13,617.95 $8,768.05 74 Payment to GF for Ortho $1.875.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,875.00 $0.00 75 Bartlett Bay Bond Replace $245.000.00 $0.00 0.00%1 $245,000.00 ; $0.00 76 - 77 Total W/POLLUTION CONTROL EXPS. $2,668.971.00 $1,200,558.37 44.98% S1,468,412.63 $218,473.46 78 79 Total ENTERPRISE FUND/W.P.C. $2,668.971.00 $1,200,558.37 44.98% S1,468,412.63 $218,473.46 80 81 Total All Funds $2,668,971.00 $1,200,558.37 44.98% S1,468,412.63 $218,473.46 12/14/2012 Sewer Expenditures-FY 2013-November 2 A B C D E F G 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 Storm Water 4 5 %Budget FY 2013 MTD 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended S(+/-) Paid November 7 8 S/WATER UTILITIES EXPS 0 Salaries-Other9 Permanent 4 $2$4,880. 0 $87,281.38 37.16%' $147,598 62 ' $22,435.86 $3,500.00 $0.00 11 Leave Time Turn-In $3,500.00 ' $0.00 0.00°A° $3,500.00 $0.00 12 Salaries Overtime $11,100.00 $1,806.48 16.27% $9,293 52 $864.39 ' 13 Payment to Sick Bank Fund $3,500.00 $0.00 0.00% $3,500.00 $0.00 14 g to Payroll Svc&Testing $480.00 $0.00 0.00% $480.00 $0.00 i 15 Fringe Benefits $0.00 $21.19 100 00%; g ($21 19) $21.19 16 FICA/Medicare -_-_, $19,100.00 $7,347.70 ' 38.47% $11,752 30 $1,912.21 17 Nontaxable Fringe Benefit $0.00 S600.00 100.00% ($600.00) $0.00 18 Vision Plan S510.00 $0.00 0.00% $510.00 $0.00 19 Disability Income Insuran $1,340.00 S390.80 ' 29.16% $949.20 $78.16 20 Group Health Insurance $45,000.00 $14,659.58 32.58% $30.340.42 $3,095.56 21 Reimburse to Highway Bene $7,020.00 $7,020.00 100.00% $0.00 - $0.00 22 Health Insurance FICA $1,300.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,300.00 $0.00 r 23 Group Life Insurance S840.00 $288.75 34.38% $551.25 $57.75 24 Group Dental Insurance $4,100.00 $1,392.80 33.97% $2,707.20 $301.60 25 Pension $39,150.00 $0.00 0.00%. $39,150.00 ! $0.00 i 26 ICMA Match $6,990.00 $0.00 0.00% $6,990.00 ' $0.00 27 Pension Note Payment $26,510.00 $26,510.00 ' 100.00%' $0.00 $26,510.00 28 Office Supplies $3,000.00 S318.39 10.61% $2,681.611 $109.81 29 Small Equipment/Tools $4,000.00 $2,948.00 73.70% $1,052.00 $2,485.10 30 Uniforms/Supplies $3,885.00 $1,801.01 46.36%T $2,083.99 $310.06 31 Gasoline 1 $4,500.00 $1,358.97 3020°r°' $3,141.03 $333.29 32 Oil i $350.00 : $129.67 37.05% $220.33 $0.00 33 Diesel Fuel I $8,500.00 ' $1,908.86 22.46% $6,591.14 $285.86 35 Tele34 pt hone Requirement-Educat $9 704.00 $6�800:00 - 4 q 73.12% $2,500.00 $0.00 + 12.03% $2,378.83 T $91.75 36 Postage I S300.00 $0.00 l 0 00% $300.00 1 $0.00 37 Membership/Dues l S500.00 $0.00 0 00% $0.00 p -_- $500.00 38 Discharge Permits Renewal $4,770.00 $122.90 2.58% $4,647.10 ' $39.20 39 Workers Comp Insurance I $16,986.0.0 $7,866.82 46.31% $9,119.18 $0.00 p � ° 40 Property Insurance = $5,194.00 $2 473.18 47 62% $2,720 82 i $0.00 41 I jnem loyment Insurance $2,000.00 S924.62 46.23Ao $1,075.38 I $0.00 42 GIS-Fees/Software $8,355.00 $1,900.00 22.74% $6,455.00 I $0.00 44 Water Quality Monitoring - b19,000.00 $5,316.7327.98 ° $13,683.27 ; 43 Sediment&Dens Disposa S750.00 $0.00 0.00% $0.00 ° $228.89 45 Building/Grounds Maint $1,500.00 S638.00 42.53% $862.00 $0.00 46 Vehicle Maintenance $8,000.00 $7,664.02 95.80% $335.98 $2,915.94 47 Storm System Mamt Materi S40,000.00 $15,246.38 38 12 ro $24,753.62 . $1,688.74 48 Printing $100.00 $0.00 000% $100.00 ' $0.00 49 Legal Services $15,000.00 $862.50 j 5.75%, $14,137.50 j $862.50 50 To GE-Audit and Actuary $3,312.00 j $J 312.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 51 l;ngineering-Watershed $28,000.00 $0.00 0.00%. $28,000.00 $0.00 52 Engineering-Nghbrhd Asst $26 000.00 $9 559.05 36 77%' $16,440.95 $1,375.00 53 Billing Payment CWD $32,500.00 $16 250.00 50.00%1L $16,250.00 $0.00 $15,000.00 %1 $12,355.00 $857.50 54 Outside Services-GIS i $2,645.00 17 63%1 55 I 1/Computer Support $13,300.00 - $0.00 0.00%' $13,30.00 C $0.00 56 Office Equipment Maintena $1,000.00 S249.67 24.97% $750.33 $0.00 57 Equipment Rental $2,000.00 $1,080.00 54.00% $920.00 $0.00 12/14/2012 Stormwater Expenditures-FY 2013-November 1 _ A B C D E F G 1 2 Expenditure Report-November,2012 3 Storm Water 4 . 5 % Budget f Y 2013 MTI) 6 Account Budget Expenditures Expended S(+/-) Paid November 58 Administrative Services $122,720.00 $122,720.00 100.00%, $0.00 $0.00 59 Conference/Training Expen $4,190.00 t $362.00 8.64% $3,828.00 $0.00 60 S/W Bldg Utilities $3,500.00 $684.12 19.55%'% $2,815.88 $167.18- 1 j 61 Stormwater Pumps Electric S450.00 $77.47 17.22% $372.53 $18.65 62 Vehicles/Equipment $200,000.00 $30,800.00 15.40% $169,200.00 $0.00 1 63 Office FurnitureiEquipmen $1,000.00 $69.99 7.00% $930.01 $0.00 _ 64 Project Notes Princ/Inter S223,245.00 $0.00 0.00% $223,245.00 ' $0.00 1 65 Various Notes-Principal $1,875.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,875.00 $0.00 I o, 66 ERU Rate/Equity Analysis $40,000.00 $0.00 ; 0.00% $40,000.00 $0.00 67 Reimbursement to Highway $15,600.00 $15,600.00 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 1 68 69 Total S/WATER UTILITIES EXPS 1 $1,301,206.00 . $409,333.20 31.46% $891,872.80 $67,046.19 70 71 S TORN WATER PROJECTS 72 Stormwater Capital Projec $2,320,650.00 $513,162.56 22.11% $1,807,487.44 $149,874.03 73 Consulting/Engineering $0.00 $2,591.31 I 100.00% ($2,591.31) $0.00 r 74 Construction Costs 71 $0.00 $106,790.45 100.00% ($106,790.45)j $0.00 1 75 Supplies $0.00 S386.16 - 100.00% ($386.16)! $0.00 76 Engineering $0.00 $1,258.96 100.00% ($1,258.96) $0.00 77 Construction Costs $0.00 $144,061.76 100.00% ($144,061.76) $0.00 78 79 Total $2,320,650.0C $768,251.20 33.1 1% S 1552,398.80 $149,874.03 80 81 Total STORM WATER UTILITIES $3,621,856.00 $1,177,584.40 32.51% S2,444.271.60 ' $216,920.22 82 83 Total All Funds $3,621,856.00 S1.177,584.-10 32.51% $2,444,271.60 S216,920.22 12/14/2012 Stormwater Expenditures-FY 2013-November 2 • Revenue Report-November,2012 General Fund Estimated Received o,/ Budget FY 2013 MTD Account Revenue To Date Received $(+/-) Received-Nov TAX REVENUE Tax,Current Budget $1 1,210,483.00 ($7,080,451.43) 63.16% $4,130,031.57 ($2,968,040.96) VT Payment in Lieu of Tax $47,000.00 ($33,692.00) 71.69% $13,308.00 ($33,692.00) Taxes,Reappraisal/ACT 60 $71.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $71,000.00 $0.00 Total TAX REVENUE $11,328.483.00 ($7,114,143.43) 62.80% $4,214,339.57 ($3,001,732.96) LOCAL OPTION TAXES Local Option Tax-Sales $2,625.000.00 ($940,065.18) 35.81% $1,684,934.82 ($662,659.98) Local Option Tax-Rooms/Me $104,760.00 ($350,729.31) 334.79% ($245,969.31) ($255,038.83) Rooms/Meals- Fire Vehicl $335.240.00 $0.00 0.00% $335,240.00 $0.00 Rooms/Meals-P/D Hdytrs $360.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $360,000.00 $0.00 Total LOCAL OPTION TAXES $3,425.000.00 ($1,290,794.49) 37.69% $2,134,205.51 ($917,698.81) Total TAX REVENUE $14,753,483.00 (S8,404,937.92) 56.97% $6,348,545.08 ($3,919,431.77) INTEREST/PENALTY ON TAX Penalty,Current&Prior $105,000.00 ($83,170.76) 79.21% $21,829.24 ($44,588.31) Insurance Reimbursements $0.00 ($1,010.10) 100.00% ($1,010.10) ($1,010.10) Interest,Current&Prior $42,500.00 ($I6,365.75) 38.51% $26,134.25 ($6,450.14) Attorney Fees $0.00 ($3,638.99) 100.00% ($3,638.99) $0.00 Fee to Collect State Educ $75,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $75,000.00 $0.00 Current Use $13,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $13,000.00 $0.00 Per Parcel Payment Traini $500.00 $0.00 0.00% $500.00 $0.00 ' Total INTEREST/PENALTY ON TAX $236.000.00 ($104,185.60) 44.15% $131,814.40 ($52,048.55) CITY MANAGER Administrative Services-W $42.640.00 ($42,640.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 Administrative Services-S $122,720.00 ($122,720.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 I Administrative Services-W $137.280.00 ($137,280.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 From Sever-Audit&Actuar $4.832.00 ($4,832.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 From SW-Audit&Actuary $3.312.00 ($3,312.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 I Wellness Payment $5.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $5,000.00 $0.00 COBRA Repayment $20200.00 $0.00 0.00% $20,200.00 $0.00 Pension Flab Note-WPC S38.675.00 (S38,675.00) 100.00% $0.00 ($38,675.00) Pension Liab Note-SW S26.510.00 (S26,510.00) 100.00% $0.00 ($26,510.00) From Water-Audit $2,100.00 $0.00 0.00% $2,100.00 $0.00 DPSA Insurance Reimb. $5,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $5,000.00 $0.00 Admin Svc Fee Fund 240 $30,000.00 ($30,000.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 From SW for Ortho $1,875.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,875.00 $0.00 From WPC for Ortho $1.875.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,875.00 $0.00 PD 3rd Floor Lease Rent $15,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $15,000.00 $0.00 From WPC-Payroll,Testing $700.00 $0.00 0.00% $700.00 $0.00 l From SW-Payroll,Testing $480.00 $0.00 0.00% $480.00 $0.00 Insurance'Leadership $0.00 ($139.17) 100.00% ($139.17) $0.00 Insurance Reimbursement $0.00 ($4,667.73) 100.00% ($4,667.73) $0.00 I Miscellaneous $2.000.00 ($2,193.39) 109.67% ($193.39) $0.00 Total CITY MANAGER $460,199.00 ($412,969.29) 89.74% $47,229.71 ($65,185.00) CITY CLERK Returned Check Fees $50.00 $0.00 0.00% $50.00 $0.00 Recording Fees $150.000.00 ($73,822.00) 49.21% $76,178.00 ($15,518.00) Photocopy Fees $30,000.00 ($10,318.73) 34.40% $19,681.27 ($1,853.25) Photocopies-Vital Records $8,000.00 ($1,890.00) 23.63% $6,110.00 ($279.00) Pet Licenses $35,000.00 ($930.00) 2.66% $34,070.00 ($15.00) Pet Control Fees $3,000.00 ($995.00) 33.17% $2,005.00 ($242.00) Beverage/Cabaret License $6,000.00 ($300.00) 5.00% $5,700.00 $0.00 Entertainment Permits $300.00 ($50.00) 16.67% $250.00 $0.00 Fish&Game Licenses $100.00 ($50.00) 50.00% $50.00 ($10.50) Marriage Licenses $1.750.00 ($765.00) 43.71% $985.00 ($20.00) Green Mountain Passports $150.00 ($154.00) 102.67% ($4.00) ($2.00) Motor Vehicle Renewals $2,000.00 ($372.00) 18.60% $1,628.00 ($60.00) Expedited Mailing Service $250.00 $0.00 0.00% $250.00 $0.00 School Reimburse-Election S2,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $2,000.00 $0.00 Interest on Investments S80,000.00 ($11,218.87) 14.02% $68,781.13 $0.00 Total CITY CLERK $318.600.00 ($100,865.60) 31.66% $217,734.40 ($17,999.75) PLANNING Building&Sign Permits $180,000.00 ($83,937.36) 46.63% $96,062.64 ($12,009.80) Bianchi Ruling $6.000.00 ($3,453.00) 57.55% $2,547.00 ($495.00) Ordinance Fines $0.00 ($387.50) 100.00% ($387.50) ($112.50) Zoning and Planning $60,000.00 ($25,120.80) 41.87% $34,879.20 ($1,911.00) Sewer Inspection Fees $0.00 ($2,000.00) 100.00% ($2,000.00) ($400.00) Peddlers' Permits S1.000.00 ($970.00) 97.00% $30.00 ($360.00) Legal Permit Review $3,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $3,000.00 $0.00 Market Street Grant $29.690.00 $0.00 0.00% $29,690.00 $0.00 MPG 11 Grant Revenue $15.000.00 ($4,500.00) 30.00% $10,500.00 $0.00 Independent Techincal Rev $10.500.00 $0.00 0.00% $10,500.00 $0.00 Zoning Violations $0.00 ($150.00) 100.00% ($150.00) $0.00 Total PLANNING $305,190.00 ($120,518.66) 39.49% $184,671.34 ($15,288.30) FIRE DEPARTMENT Engine"Trade In $4,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $4,000.00 $0.00 Outside Employment $7,200.00 ($3,280.00) 45.56% $3,920.00 ($183.00) Misc.Revenue-Fire Dept. $0.00 ($5,677.34) 100.00% ($5,677.34) $0.00 Fire Inspection Revenue $200,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $200,000.00 $0.00 Fire Impact Fees-Fund Tru $136.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $136,000.00 $0.00 Loan Proceeds-Ml3-Quint $0.00 ($440,250.00) 100.00% ($440,250.00) $0.00 Total FIRE DEPARTMENT $347.200.00 ($449,207.34) 129.38% ($102,007.34) ($183.00) AMBULANCE Tax Revenues $155.000.00 ($155,000.00) 100.00910 $0.00 $0.00 Ambulance Service Billing $671.000.00 ($209,449.52) 31.21% $461,550.48 ($30,186.88) Williston Billing $18,000.00 ($8,078.81) 44.88% $9,921.19 ($1,199.14) Grand Isle Billing $6,000.00 ($1,946.34) 32.44% $4,053.66 ($953.82) Patient Care Equip Grant $5,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $5,000.00 $0.00 Total AMBULANCE $855,000.00 ($374,474.67) 43.80% $480,525.33 ($32,339.84) POLICE DEPARTMENT Vermont District Court $1 10,000.00 ($26,185.41) 23.80% $83,814.59 ($9,418.91) Traffic Safety Grant $15.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $15,000.00 $0.00 Sale of Cruisers/Bequest $4,000.00 ($3,010.00) 75.25% $990.00 $0.00 Police Reports $6,500.00 ($5,818.21) 89.51% $681.79 ($2,349.21) I.C.A.C. $0.00 ($2,066.32) 100.00% ($2,066.32) $0.00 Drug Task Force Grant $39,336.00 ($15,210.95) 38.67% $24,125.05 $0.00 Asset Forfeiture for Trai $8.380.00 $0.00 0.00% $8,380.00 $0.00 Parking Tickets $500.00 ($80.00) 16.00% $420.00 ($5.00) Alarm Registrations S9.000.00 ($4,105.00) 45.61% $4,895.00 ($550.00) Alarm Fines $1,500.00 ($1,250.00) 83.33% $250.00 ($200.00) Off Duty Police $33,060.00 ($34,769.08) 105.17% ($1,709.08) ($13,790.19) Reparative Board Grant $72.803.00 $0.00 0.00% $72,803.00 $0.00 BYRNE Grant $25,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $25,000.00 $0.00 Miscellaneous-Police $0.00 ($215.00) 100.00% ($215.00) $0.00 Total POLICE DEPARTMENT $325,079.00 ($92,709.97) 28.52% $232,369.03 ($26,313.31) HIGI IWAY DEPARTMENT Road Opening Permits $155.000.00 ($39,130.00) 25.25% $115,870.00 ($7,520.00) Overweight truck permits $100.00 ($115.00) 115.00% ($15.00) ($30.00) Highway State Aid $21 1.721.00 ($184,243.70) 87.02°A) $27,477.30 ($106,987.21) Class 11 Paving Grant $134.520.00 $0.00 0.00% $134,520.00 $0.00 Fuel Pump Surcharge $1,000.00 ($2,132.75) 213.28% ($1,132.75) ($551.68) HazMat Facility Lease $17,500.00 ($9,408.98) 53.77% $8,091.02 $0.00 School Bus Parts Reimbure $32,500.00 ($17,906.37) 55.10% $14,593.63 ($3,068.28) School gas/diesel reimbur $130,000.00 ($7,924.11) 6.10% $122,075.89 $0.00 School vehicle repair pay S 17.700.00 $0.00 0.00% $17,700.00 $0.00 Salary Reimbursement-WPC $245,760.00 ($245,760.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 FICA Reimbursement-WPC $l 8.800.00 ($18,800.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 Pension Reimbursement-WPC S67.470.00 ($67,470.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 Benefits Reim bursement-WP $62.238.00 ($62,238.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 Salary Reimbursement-SW S 15.600.00 ($15,600.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 Benefits Reimbursement-SW $7,020.00 ($7,020.00) 100.00% $0.00 $0.00 VehicleTrade In S 12.500.00 ($40,904.00) 327.23% ($28,404.00) $0.00 Sex\er Inspection Fee $1.000.00 50.00 0.00% $1,000.00 $0.00 Higho a\ Impact Fee-RT 2 $90,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $90,000.00 $0.00 Hgwy Misc Fuel $4.000.00 ($67,790.35) 1694.76% ($63,790.35) ($19,316.76) Total HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT $1,224.429.00 ($786,443.26) 64.23% $437,985.74 ($137,473.93) TREE RPLCMNT/MNTNCE Tree Replacement Fee $300.00 $0.00 0.00% $300.00 $0.00 Total TREE RPLCMNT/MNTNCE $300.00 $0.00 0.00% $300.00 $0.00 RECREATION RED ROCKS PARK Red Rocks Gate Receipts $4,700.00 ($5,206.00) 110.77% ($506.00) $0.00 Total RED ROCKS PARK $4,700.00 ($5,206.00) 110.77% ($506.00) $0.00 FACILITIES .1/C Park Rentals $300.00 ($350.00) 116.67% ($50.00) ($40.00) Total FACILITIES $300.00 ($350.00) 116.67% ($50.00) ($40.00) SPECIAL.ACTIVITIES Great Escape Ticket Sales $17,000.00 ($13,703.00) 80.61% $3,297.00 $0.00 Aternoon Skiing/Middle Sc $6,300.00 ($4,756.00) 75.49% $1,544.00 ($4,756.00) Afternoon Skiing/Orchard $6,900.00 ($60.00) 0.87% $6,840.00 ($60.00) Tennis Class Receipts $4,700.00 ($4,618.00) 98.26% $82.00 $0.00 Youth Programs $63.000.00 ($56,748.50) 90.08% $6,251.50 ($12,681.00) Adult Evening Classes $27.000.00 (S21,068.00) 78.03% $5,932.00 ($2,656.00) Total SPECIAL ACTIVITIES $124,900.00 ($100,953.50) 80.83% $23,946.50 ($20,153.00) Total RECREATION $129,900.00 ($106,509.50) 81.99% $23,390.50 ($20,193.00) COMMUNITY LIBRARY Late Book Charges/Fines $3.000.00 ($45.00) 1.50% $2,955.00 $0.00 Non-Resident Fees $750.00 ($270.00) 36.00% $480.00 $0.00 Blanchette Gift $9.730.00 $0.00 0.00°A $9,730.00 $0.00 C/I. Photocopies $500.00 ($430.00) 86.00% $70.00 $0.00 Bookmobile Donations S1.000.00 $0.00 0.00% $1,000.00 $0.00 Total COMMUNITY LIBRARY $14.980.00 ($745.00) 4.97% $14,235.00 $0.00 PARK MAINTENANCE Cemeter) Trust-Trsf In $300.00 $0.00 0.00% $300.00 $0.00 Total PARK MAINTENANCE $300.00 $0.00 0.00% $300.00 $0.00 Total GENERAL FUND S18,970,660.00 ($10,953,566.81) 57.74% $8,017,093.19 ($4,286,456.45) Total All Funds $18,970,660.00 ($10,953,566.81) 57.74% $8,017,093.19 ($4,286,456.45) Revenue Report-November,2012 Water Polution Control Fund Estimated Received % Budget FY 2013 MTD Account Revenue To Date Received S(+/-) Received-Nov WATER POLLUTION CONTROL CHARGES FOR SERVICES W.P.C. User Fees $3,131,442.00 ($1,399,001.73) 44.68% $1,732,440.27 ($262,430.11) W.P.C. Truck Charges $50,000.00 ($1,314.50) 2.63% $48,685.50 $0.00 Connection Fees $106,090.00 ($64,815.53) 61.09% $41,274.47 ($11,186.79) Enviromental Impact $35,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $35,000.00 $0.00 Total CHARGES FOR SERVICES $3,322,532.00 ($1,465,131.76) 44.10% $1,857,400.24 ($273,616.90) MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous Rev.-W.P.C. $0.00 ($26,184.00) 100.00% (S26,184.00) $0.00 Total MISCELLANEOUS $0.00 ($26,184.00) 100.00% ($26,184.00) $0.00 Total OPERATING TRANSFERS IN $3,322,532.00 ($1.491,315.76) 44.88% $1,831,216.24 ($273,616.90) Total ENTERPRISE FUND/W.P.C. $3,322,532.00 ($1,491,315.76) 44.88% $1,831,216.24 ($273,616.90) Total All Funds $3.322,532.00 (S1,491,315.76) 44.88% $1,831,216.24 ($273,616.90) Revenue Report-November,2012 Stormwater Fund Estimated Received % Budget FY 2013 MTD Account Revenue To Date Received $(+/-) Received-Nov S/WATER UTILITIES REVENUE S/W User Fees- Water Bil $1,888,104.00 ($712,062.43) 37.71% $1,176,041.57 ($75,417.03) State of VT Fee for Servi $50,000.00 $0.00 0.00% $50,000.00 $0.00 SW Grants $1,189,650.00 ($531,813.70) 44.70% $657,836.30 $0.00 Land Owner Payments $34,200.00 $0.00 0.00% $34,200.00 $0.00 Stormwater Miscellaneous $0.00 ($20.00) 100.00% ($20.00) $0.00 Reserve Transfer In $460,160.00 $0.00 0.00% $460,160.00 $0.00 Miscellaneous Income $0.00 ($78.00) 100.00% ($78.00) $0.00 Total S/WATER UTILITIES REVENUE $3,622,114.00 ($1,243,896.13) 34.34% $2,378,217.87 ($75,417.03) Total STORM WATER UTILITIES S3.622.114.00 ($1,243,974.13) 34.34% $2,378,139.87 ($75,417.03) Total All Funds $3,622,114.00 ($1,243.974.13) 34.34% $2,378,139.87 ($75,417.03) I4 . south as PLANNING &ZONING MEMORANDUM TO: South Burlington City Manager FROM: Cathyann LaRose, City Planner S� SUBJECT: Land Swap Between Lewis Family Partnership and City of South Burlington DATE: December 17, 2012 City Council meeting Brief History: In decades past, the City of South Burlington acquired land from Lewis Family Partnership (known as Lewis Motors) for the construction of Fire Station #2 on Holmes Road. The City built a retaining wall partially on the Lewis Motors property. In order to rectify this construction without having to remove the wall, it was agreed by both property owners to complete a minor land swap. The Planning Commission approved the swap in December of 1996, but it has recently come to our attention that the appropriate legal documents were never recorded. Lewis Family Partnership has agreed to complete this mutual transfer now. Details and Documents: The swap involves: (1) The City transfers 0.03 acres of City property to Lewis Family Partnership; (2) Lewis Family Partnership transfers 0.04 acres of land to the City. The attached documents, when fully executed. will complete this swap: (1) Warranty Deed detailing (1) above; (2) Warranty Deed detailing (2) above: (3) Vermont Property Tax Return for each transfer; (4) Irrevocable Offer of Dedication It should be noted that the land swap does not involve any financial transfers. 575 Dorset Street South Burlington, \T 05403 tel 802.846 4106 fax 802.846 4101 www.sburl,corn Recommendation and Possible Motions: At its next meeting, the City Council may vote to: "Consider authorizing and appointing the City Manager to execute the Notice of Sale of Municipal Real Estate to the Lewis Family Partnership, LLP, and the posting and publication of said Notice pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1061." It is the recommendation of Staff and the City Attorney that, since this is a divestment of land, that the city wait 30 days until after posting so that the City can then execute the Warranty Deed conveying its property to the Lewis Family Partnership and accept the conveyance of the Lewis Family Partnership's property simultaneously. The City Council could authorize the City Manager to execute the Warranty Deed conveying the property within those 30 days, subject to the condition that no petition is received pursuant to § 1061. Again, the former is the recommendation of both the Staff and the City Attorney. At the City Council meeting which follows the passage of 30 days after the posting, and, assuming no petition is submitted, the Council may then vote to: "Consider authorizing and appointing the City Manager to execute the Warranty Deed conveying property to the Lewis Family Partnership as part of the land swap between the City and Lewis Family Partnership." It should then also vote to: "Consider accepting the conveyance of land by Warranty Deed from the Lewis Family Partnership, LLP to complete the land swap between the City and Lewis Family Partnership." A copy of the notice of sale is attached, along with copies of the other documents referenced in this memo. 2 -� -_-- - EXISTING PROPERTY LINE D. FARRELL, ET AL PORTION OF PARCEL 4 118.85' S 69 44'41" E V. 322, P. 320 TO BE CONVEYED TO PROPOSED PROPERTY LINE P.B. 197, P. 70 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON 1674 S.F. - 0.04 ACRE o o 15'EASEMENT FOR "CROWN ROAD" h —S 18'30'25" W N 18 30'25" E i> 170.00'-o / V�' o-k 397_Q4'—o __ o -_ w W 28.19= / ----.. l _._ EDGE OF PAVEMENT W Z. EXISTING PAVED DRIVE 1 m,, N 8310'29" W I W w, W o N 121.31' I 30' EASEMENT V. 217 P. 113 CITY OF SO. BURLINGTON • I N 8310'29" W PROPOSED PROPERTY LINE ,_ e i5+_ 214, P. 46 8.69' W EXISTING PROPERTY LINE -- STATION RETAINING I / o N WALL b ----- ---- 8.69'- . .s 183O'?5" w ho oo' ALEXANDER LEWIS 40• PORTION OF CITY OF N 770.00' S 18 30'25" W - I V. 199, P. 124 rn SOUTH BURLINGTON TO BE • 1 3.27 ACRES CONVEYED TO ALEXANDER - LEWIS' PROPERTY 'w — 1447 S.F. - 0.03 ACRE "I1 • - O N o ( PARCEL 4 ) -f------------_-.___.__ __-____--_ 1O, 203.55' 18'56'34" W K. m f S 18 55'25" W 128.16' 200.00' • O { PARCEL 7 ) ( PARCEL 2 ) ( PARCEL 3 ) D \-__ 15.66' CDN 00'19'26" W EXISTING ; } LAKEWOOD COMMONS BUILDING I W CONDOMINIUM ASSOC. rn Z ALEXANDER O w c"n ro .I ro LEWIS h V. 217, P. 115 "+ o V. 268, P. 295 o o $1 w 10 V. 211, P. 22 l" N a P.B. 365 P. 27 co $ 1.80 ACRES o rn h V b N rn N N EXISTING 1 'D BUILDING 1 l y FUTURE R.O.W. BASED ON 15'EASEMENT1 1 ROAD' I / V.A.O. PLANS OF PROJECC T F-£GC-019-4(19) 15.01' -1 L-- FOR 'CROWN � il 762.00' — — N 18 58'13" E---110.15 199.80' N 1858'13" E THIS PLAT IS BASED ON THE FOLLOWING: 1) A TOTAL STATION CONTROL TRAVERSE, EVIDENCE FOUND IN THE FIELD, AND INFORMATION SHELBURNE ROAD 99' R.O.W.ABSTRACTED FROM THE CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON LAND RECORDS. 2) PARCELS 1 AND 2 AND THE EASTERLY PORTION OF CROWN ROAD WERE CONVEYED TO APPROVED BY RES( ALEXANDER LEWIS IN VOLUME 211 PAGE 22. PARCELS 3 AND 4 WERE CONVEYED TO CITY OF SOUTH 8Ul ALEXANDER LEWIS IN VOLUME 199 PAGE 124. ALL THE PARCELS ARE SHOWN ON A PLAT OF��'LKf�fJal�. RECORDED IN VOLUME 80 PAGE 121. rink if,Tinkle TIC CAll WARRANTY DEED KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: That City of South Burlington, a Vermont municipality having a place of business in South Burlington,in the County of Chittenden,and State of Vennont(the"Grantor"),in consideration of TEN AND MORE DOLLARS paid to the Grantor's fiill satisfaction by Lewis Family Partnership, LLP, formerly known as Lewis Family Limited Partnership,a Vermont limited liability partnership having a place of business in South Burlington in the County of Chittenden, and State of Vermont(the"Grantee"), by these presents, does freely GIVE, GRANT, SELL, CONVEY AND CONFIRM unto the Grantee, and its successors and assigns,forever,a certain piece of land in South Burlington in the County of Chittenden,and State of Vermont, described as follows, viz: Being a small parcel of land, approximately 0.03 acres in area, more or less, shown and depicted as "Portion of City of South Burlington To Be Conveyed to Alexander Lewis Property 1447 S.F. -0.03 Acre"on a plat entitled Boundary Plat Lewis Family Partnership, LLP 1301 & 1325 Shelburne Road South Burlington, Vt. dated October 10, 1996, prepared by Trudell Consulting Engineers, Inc., recorded in Map Slide 305 of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington(the "Plat"). Being a portion of the lands and premises conveyed to the Grantor pursuant to a warranty deed,dated November 14, 1985,from Alexander S. Lewis, recorded in Volume 214, Page 340-of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington. The parcel of land is a parallelogram, having east and west boundaries of 170.00 feet and north and south boundaries of 8.69 feet, all as shown and depicted on the Plat. Reference is hereby made to the above-mentioned instruments, the record thereof, the references therein made, and their respective records and references, in further aid of this description. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said granted premises,with all the privileges and appurtenances ' thereof, to the Grantee and its successors and assigns, to its and their own use and behoof forever; And the Grantor, for itself and its successors and assigns, does covenant with the Grantee, and its successors and assigns, that until the ensealing of these presents it is the sole owner of the lands and premises, and has good right and title to convey the same in manlier aforesaid, that it is FREE FROM EVERY ENCUMBRANCE; and that it hereby engages to WARRANT AND DEFEND the same against all lawful claims whatever, except as aforesaid. LISi11AN LECKERLING,ATTOINF.YS AT LAW,P.O.BOX 728,BURLINGTON,VT 05402 802-864-5756 1 • IN WITNESS WHEREOF,the Grantor has executed this deed this day of 2012. City of South Burlington By: Sanford Miller, Duly Authorized Agent STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. At South Burlington this day of , 2012, Sanford Miller, duly authorized agent of City of South Burlington personally appeared,and he acknowledged this instrument,by him sealed and subscribed, to be his free act and deed and the free act and deed of City of South Burlington. Before me, Notary Public Print Name: My Commission Expires: 2/10/15 23775\000 LISMAN LECKERLING,ATTORNEYS AT LAW,P.O.BOX 728,BURLINGTON,VT 05402 802.864-5756 2 WARRANTY DEED KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: That Lewis Family Partnership,LLP, formerly known as Lewis Family Limited Partnership,a Vermont limited liability partnership having a place of business in South Burlington,in the County of Chittenden,and State of Vermont(the"Grantor"), in consideration of TEN AND MORE DOLLARS paid to the Grantor's full satisfaction by City of South Burlington, a Vermont municipality having a place of business in South Burlington in the County of Chittenden,and State of Vermont (the"Grantee"), by these presents, does freely GIVE, GRANT, SELL, CONVEY AND CONFIRM unto the Grantee, and its successors and assigns, forever, a certain piece of land in South Burlington in the County of Chittenden, and State of Vermont,described as follows, viz: Being a small parcel of land, approximately 0,04 acres in area, more or less, shown and depicted as"Portion of Parcel To Be Conveyed to the City of South Burlington 1674 S.F. - 0.04 Acre"on a plat entitled Boundary Plat Lewis Family Partnership, LLP 1301 & 1325 Shelburne Road South Burlington, Vt. dated October 10, 1996, prepared by Trudell Consulting Engineers, Inc., recorded in Map Slide 305 of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington (the"Plat"). Being a portion of the lands and premises conveyed to the Grantor pursuant to a warranty deed,dated October 25, 1999,from Alexander S.Lewis,recorded in Volume 476,Page 613- of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington,as corrected by a Corrective Warranty Deed,dated June 29, 2009,recorded in Volume 876, Page 050-of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington. The parcel of land is triangular in shape, having a west boundary of 28.19 feet, a north boundary of 118.85 feet and a south boundary of 121.31 feet, all as shown and depicted on the Plat. Reference is hereby made to the above-mentioned instruments, the record thereof; the references therein made, and their respective records and references, in further aid of this description. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said granted premises,with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof, to the Grantee and its successors and assigns,to its and their own use and behoof forever; And the Grantor, for itself and its successors and assigns, does covenant with the Grantee, and its successors and assigns, that until the ensealing of these presents it is the sole owner of the lands and premises,and has good right and title to convey the same in manner aforesaid, that it is LISMIAN LECKERLING,ATTORNEYS AT LAW,P.O.BOX 728,BURLINGTON,VT 05402 802-864-5756 FREE FROM EVERY ENCUMBRANCE; and that it hereby engages to WARRANT AND DEFEND the same against all lawful claims whatever,except as aforesaid. IN WITNESS WHEREOF,the Grantor has executed this deed this "�4 day of_0,, , 2012. Lewis Family Partnership,LLP By: David A. Lewis, Duly Authorized Age t STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. r At Burlington this L. day of {}{ E _� , 2012, David A. Lewis, duly authorized agent of Lewis Family Partnership,LLP personally appeared,an he acknowledged this instrument,by him sealed and subscribed, to be his free act and deed and tl r act and deed of Lewis Family Partnership,LLP, 4 1 Before me, \" \ Notary Public Print Name: ( _(1 l 1)011' My Commission Expires: 2/10/15 23775\000 LIS\1AN LECKERLING,ATTORNEYS AT LAW,P.O.BOX 728,BURLINGTON,VT 05402 802.864-5756 2 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON NOTICE OF SALE OF MUNICIPAL REAL ESTATE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE LEGAL VOTERS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON, pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1061, that the City of South Burlington proposes to convey any interest it has in a certain 0.03-acre, more or less, parcel of land with east and west boundaries of 170.00 feet, more or less, and north and south boundaries of 8.69 feet, more or less, as depicted as "Portion of City of South Burlington To Be Conveyed to Alexander Lewis Property 1447 S.F. — 0.03 Acre" on a plan entitled, "Boundary Plat, Lewis Family Partnership, LLP, 1301 & 1325 Shelburne Road, South Burlington, Vt." dated October 10, 1996, and recorded in Map Slide 305 of the City of South Burlington Land Records (the "Plan"), to the Lewis Family Partnership, LLP. Said conveyance is in exchange for the acquisition, at no cost, of a small parcel of land, approximately 0.04 acres in area, more or less, depicted as "Portion of Parcel To Be Conveyed to the City of South Burlington 1674 S.F. — 0.04 Acre" on the Plan. Said conveyance will have the following terms and conditions: Sale Price: $0.00 Terms: Warranty Deed delivered at closing. Closing: As soon as practicable after December_, 2012. The property will be sold on the terms specified unless a petition objecting to the sale, signed by at least five percent (5%) of the legal voters of the City of South Burlington, is presented to the town clerk within thirty (30) days of the date of publication and posting of this notice. If such a petition is presented, the City of South Burlington shall cause the question of whether the City of South Burlington should convey the real estate to the Lewis Family Partnership, LLP, on the terms set forth above to be considered at a Special Town Meeting called for that purpose, or at the next Annual Town Meeting. THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION FOR BIDS, NOR AN OFFER TO SELL THIS REAL ESTATE TO ANY PERSON ON ANY PARTICULAR TERMS OR CONDITIONS. Dated at South Burlington, Vermont, this th day of October, 2012. CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON By: Sanford Miller, City Manager and Duly Authorized Agent /I, Cb't D7CS g.1,( GIrLGI t Pt, R Todd LeBlanc, Assessor 575 Dorset Street South Burlington VT 05403 846-4103 December 13, 2012 To: South Burlington City Council Re: 2012 Grand List Errors& Omissions Dear Council Members: It is now the end of 2012 and with it the close of the 2012 Grand List. As is inevitable with a Grand List the size of this City's,there were errors or omissions in the Grand List when lodged with the City Clerk in July (see attached). State Law allows for the City to make changes in the Grand List due to Errors and Omissions (E& 0) up until December 30 each year. In finalizing the Grand List for the City of South Burlington I am noticing you of the list of properties which have needed corrections through the E& 0 process. It is my recommendation that you approve the changes to the 2012 Grand List under the Errors&Omissions provision as set forth in title 32 of the Vermont State Statutes. Title 32, chpt 4261 states that "When real or personal estate is omitted from the grand list by mistake, or an obvious error is found,the listers, with the approval of the selectmen, before December 31, may supply such omissions or correct such errors and make a certificate thereon of the fact." Errors & Omissions include,but are not limited to, property listings that contain incorrect or missing information, incorrect Veterans Exemptions, Current Use Exemptions,Tax status, Homestead/Housesite values and obvious mistakes in assessed values. Values may rise, stay the same, or decline depending on the error. Sincerely, R Todd eBlanc Assessor Issues needing approval 1) List of property that has had a change in the physical address. 911 Address change per Zoning Dept. (See Attachment 1) 2) List of corrected ownership information. These entries are results of errors in the Grand List due to inaccurate owner name. (See Attachment 2) 3) List of corrected rental use%. These entries are results of errors in the Grand List due to rental % changes claimed during homestead declaration process (post Grand List filing in July). (See Attachment 3) 4) List of Current Use Exemption Changes. These entries are results of errors in the Grand List due to Current Use exemption changes (post Grand List filing in July. (See Attachment 4) The items below are not required by law to be approved by the City Council. I am including these items so that all of the changes to the Grand List made after the July lodging are grouped together in one package wizen they are given to the City Clerk. 5) List of changes resulting from Homestead Declaration changes. These entries are results of Homestead Declaration information that was downloaded from the State of Vermont the 2012 Grand List was set for billing in July. (See Attachment 5) 1 Attachment # 1 Mailing Address Corrections Name Parcel ID Old Address New Address Linnell, Grant 1640-01445 1445 Spear St 1437 Spear St Attachment # 2 Name Corrections Address Parcel ID Old Name New Name 3 Moss Glen Ln 1195-00003 Kearns, Donald Kearns, Judith 12 O'Brien 12 50-00012 00012 Guiffre, Mary & Martin Laberge, Linda 12 Wright 1870-00012 ! Senna, Norman Winnett, Dona ld 82 Bayberry 0160-00082 Walker, Douglas & Dawn Walker, Dawn Attachment# 3 Rental Use Corrections Name Parcel ID Old Rental %° New Rental % Nold, Richard 0945-00307 0% 50% Fife, C Lynn & J Geniel 1750-00333 0% 25% Lee, Lee Ann 1880-00003 32% 55% Attachment # 4 Current Use Exemption Corrections Name Parcel ID Previous Exemption Currenet Exemption Auclair, Ernest 0860-01731 $1 ,058,800 $1,012,800 Attachment # 5 Homestead Declarations Printouts of all differences in Grand List after July lodging with City Clerk due to Homestead Declarations. See attached Grand List comparison reports. 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 2 01:21 pm Homestead On/Off Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Homestead Status 0010-01185. 11711 BURLINGTON CITY OF Off now, On last year 0120-00025. 11747 GAGNON DANIEL P On now, Off last year 0254-00047. 12359 DESAUTELS KATHIE Off now, On last year 0280-00034. 13609 SYSOUPHANH LAMPHAY On now, Off last year 0295-00061. 10739 LONG THOMAS M & SUSAN A Off now, On last year 0295-00099. 10300 MILLER JOEL L & JESSICA L On now, Off last year 0380-00011. 10883 MOTT TRAVIS J & LINDSAY A On now, Off last year 0440-00006. 14697 SCHLOM SUSAN A On now, Off last year 0480-00670. 16540 CARSNO LINDA E Off now, On last year 0502-00042. 17349 CHOUDHARY SANJEEV & JOAN B Off now, On last year 0502-00130. 17354 BASHA MOHAMAD TRUST On now, Off last year 0540-00008. 15966 WAGNER DAVID M & COLETTE On now, Off last year 0550-00003. 11887 BURLINGTON CITY OF Off now, On last year 0570-00911.029 16738 FLAMINI ALEXANDER P Off now, On last year 0570-00911.055 16749 GALLOWAY JONATHAN F & JUDITH W Off now, On last year 0610-00012. 16464 WINGFIELD PETER & CAROLYN On now, Off last year 0610-00063. 12689 HAMEL MAURICE A & BARBARA A On now, Off last year 0615-00099.307 16981 PEARL DAVID & JANE 6 MORRIS & BARBARA Off now, On last year 0615-00101.304 17013 HOWE CHARLES C & LAURIE C TRUST Off now, On last year 0665-00191. 10047 GIEBINK JOHN C On now, Off last year 0670-00370.105 17097 FURTADO PETER Off now, On last year 0670-00370.213 17125 MCGOVERN TODD M 6 MARGARET T Off now, On last year 0670-00370.312 17147 WHELESS STEPHEN Off now, On last year 0670-00409.109 17040 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP Off now, On last year 0670-00409.415 17091 HEANEY DANIELLE Off now, On last year 0670-00410.114 17522 DESAUTELS MICHAEL F & RACHEL A Off now, On last year 0678-00005. 10832 MANCUSO NICHOLAS & KELLY On now, Off last year 0790-00085. 11772 DINSMORE DAVID P & DEBORAH J TRUST On now, Off last year 0790-00086. 16055 EITEL GORDON 6 LORRAINE Off now, On last year 0810-00074. 12099 FAY MICHAEL J On now, Off last year 0895-00096. 17267 LAURENT GARVIN Off now, On last year 0945-00307. 15825 NOLD RICHARD 0 On now, Off last year 0970-00100.072 12185 AMOUR PETER Off now, On last year 0970-00125.009 12222 HEBERT GORMAN P & RUTH M Off now, On last year 0970-00125.033 11589 BALTZ ALBERT On now, Off last year 1002-00031. 14544 NALETTE DINEEN B On now, Off last year 1010-10-12. 12638 BURDICK EDWARD M Off now, On last year 1034-00305.810 14554 NEAL MARK Off now, On last year 1219-00018. 17616 BASILIERE DANA & SUSAN On now, Off last year 1320-00008. 14161 MCCREEDY HEATHER & ROBERT On now, Off last year 1338-00041. 14045 GRINBERG FANCISCO 6 SUSAN E On now, Off last year 1540-01185. 13555 LARKIN JOHN P Off now, On last year 1627-00250. 17217 PLATZ JOSEPH J Off now, On last year 1630-00023. 16817 TEDESCHI COLIN 6 JENNIFER Off now, On last year 1640-01741. 11175 1741 PROPERTIES LLC Off now, On last year 1660-00I11. 15997 WILLIAMS LAURA A On now, Off last year 1667-00099. 16901 PENNSCO TRUST CO Off now, On last year 1741-00077. 17318 DARMONI REGINA A Off now, On last year 1741-00148. 17344 SILVEIRA DAVID R & JOYCE M Off now, On last year 1742-00002. 13557 BORN PETER On now, Off last year 1745-00006. 11973 CRANE MICHAEL Off now, On last year 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 2 of 2 01:21 pm Homestead On/Off Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Homestead Status 1810-01537. 12624 GRZYWNA JOHN Off now, On last year 1815-00073. 10196 CLOUD ROBERT L & MARGARET D On now, Off last year 1820-00012. 12994 HOWE SALLY D On now, Off last year 1853-00070. 17248 TERRASI RICHARD & LINDA On now, Off last year Total Records: 55 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 1 01:21 pm Homestead Exemption Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Exemption Change 0860-01731. 10234 AUCLAIR ERNEST N Land Use Non-resident Exemption is 1012800 was 1058800 Total Records: 1 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 1 01:21 pm Homestead Business/Rental Use Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Business/Rental Use Change 0945-00307. 15825 NOLD RICHARD 0 Rental Use % is 50.00 was 0.00 1750-00333. 12120 FIFE C LYNN 6 J GENIEL Rental Use % is 25.00 was 0.00 1880-00003. 13664 LEE LEE ANN Rental Use % is 55.00 was 32.00 Total Records: 3 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 1 01:21 pm Homestead Name Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Name Change 0160-00082: 16385 WALKER DAWN P Name 1 is WALKER DAWN P was WALKER DOUGLAS L & DAWN P 1195-00003. 13245 KEARNS JUDITH R Name 1 is KEARNS JUDITH R was KEARNS DONALD F 1250-00012. 12447 LABERGE LINDA L Name 1 is LABERGE LINDA L was GIUFFRE MARY B & MARTIN J 1870-00012. 16629 WINNETT DONALD G LIFE ESTATE Name 1 is WINNETT DONALD G LIFE ESTATE was SENNA NORMAN M SR Total Records: 4 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 1 01:21 pm Homestead Real Value Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Category Current Real Previous Real Difference 0677-00053. 16828 GERBODE THERESA R1 325,700 383,600 -57,90( Total Records: 1 -57,901 I 1 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 1 01:22 pm Homestead Homestead Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Category Current Homestead Previous Homestead Difference 0380-00011. 10883 MOTT TRAVIS J 6 LINDSAY A 0 199,000 133,330 65,671 0677-00053. 16828 GERBODE THERESA R1 325,700 383,600 -57,901 0945-00307. 15825 MOLD RICHARD 0 0 119,100 238,200 -119,10( 1219-00018. 17616 BASILIERE DANA 6 SUSAN R1 465,000 0 465,001 1750-00333. 12120 FIFE C LYNN 6 J GENIEL R2 464,100 559,600 -95,50( 1810-01537. 12624 GRZYWNA JOHN R1 177,600 225,700 -48,101 1880-00003. 13664 LEE LEE ANN Ri 193,000 238,900 -45,90( Total Records: 7 164,171 f 1 12/13/2012 So Burlington 2012 Billed Grand List Page 1 of 1 01:22 pm Homestead Housesite Comparison Report TLeblanc Compared to Original Billing File (LSFREZ) Parcel ID SPAN Name Category Current Housesite Previous Housesite Difference 0380-00011. 10883 MOTT TRAVIS J & LINDSAY A 0 199,000 133,330 65,671 0677-00053. 16828 GERBODE THERESA R1 325,700 383,600 -57,901 0945-00307. 15825 NOLD RICHARD 0 0 119,100 238,200 -119,101 1219-00018. 17616 BASILIERE DANA & SUSAN R1 465,000 0 465,001 1750-00333. 12120 FIFE C LYNN & J GENIEL R2 398,100 493,600 -95,501 1810-01537. 12624 GRZYWNA JOHN R1 177,600 225,700 -48,101 1880-00003. 13664 LEE LEE ANN R1 193,000 238,900 -45,901 Total Records: 7 164,171 110 West Canal Street, Suite 202 C C H I TT E N D E N COUNTY R P C Winooski, Vermont 05404-2109 Communities Planning Together 802-846-4490 www.ccrpcvt.org MEMORANDUM To: Chittenden County Municipal Officials CCRPC Board Representatives and Alternates ECOS Partners From: Charlie Baker,Executive Director Michele Boomhower,Assistant/MPO Director Date: November 15,2012 Re: Chittenden County ECOS Regional Plan—Municipal Outreach Over the next several weeks we will be visiting with all Municipal Boards and Councils in Chittenden County to discuss the Chittenden County Regional Plan update—known as the ECOS Plan. In 2010 our region was awarded a Housing and Urban Development Sustainable Communities Grant to undertake a comprehensive planning and implementation process to improve community assets in Chittenden County. This process has been termed the ECOS—which stands for Environment,Community, Opportunity and Sustainability. Your municipality,along with a host of other governmental,non-profit,and private sector partners have been participating in the ECOS planning effort over the past 18 months. We are nearing completion of the formal ECOS engagement process and the product of this process is a discussion draft of the Chittenden County Regional Plan. Historically the Chittenden County Regional Plan has included the Chittenden County Metropolitan Transportation Plan(MTP) as an Appendix document. During the ECOS process the MTP has been fully integrated into the Regional Plan. Another evolution in planning in Chittenden County has been the integration of the Chittenden County Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy(CEDS)document—historically developed by the Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation as a requirement to access U.S.Economic Development Administration funding. Now the three core planning documents— essential to meeting state and federal planning requirements for accessing resources—will be housed in one document—the Chittenden County ECOS(Regional)Plan. Attached you will find a seven page summary of the core Strategies and Actions which have emerged from the planning process,along with a map of the Future Land Use Planning Areas—derived from current municipal zoning,a list of transportation projects and a list of community development projects. The process to arrive at the draft Strategies and Actions and project lists is a culmination of research and data development,indicator and prioritization criteria development,extensive multi-sector committee engagement,and public outreach. These processes are documented at the ECOS website at www.ecosproject.com. The discussion draft of Regional Plan is now available for comment at the ECOS website. We are also happy to provide paper copies as needed. The public comment period will run through December 31 st• Staff will then work with ECOS and CCRPC Board Committees to distill final feedback into a Public Hearing draft of the Regional Plan which should be ready for release by mid-March. We welcome any feedback you may have regarding the process or the plan. We thank you and members of your staff and community for their participation in this transformational process. The effort has been co-chaired by Sandy Miller of the City of South Burlington and Penrose Jackson of Fletcher Allen Health Care. Leading resource partners have included the Municipalities,Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce,Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation,the United Way of Chittenden County,Fletcher Allen Health Care,the University of Vermont. For additional information please contact Charlie Baker at 846-4490 x23(cbaker(7a,ccrpcvt.org)or Michele Boomhower 846- 4490 x15(mboomhowerna,ccrpcvt.org). V 5.0 12/03/12 1 eCM A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY Municipal Outreach Meetings — Fall/Winter 2012/2013 Discussion of Draft Strategies & Actions Vision A healthy, inclusive and prosperous community. Mission We will have a collaborative planning process with citizens, public and private organizations to develop a consensus regarding priority actions to achieve the goals below. The intent of this effort is to strengthen and enhance coordination, accountability and implementation of the plans of participating organizations such as state and local governments, planning organizations and other partner organizations - including business, environmental, education, and human services. Broad Goals 1. Natural Systems — Design and maintain a strategically planned and managed green infrastructure network composed of natural lands, working landscapes, and open spaces that conserve ecosystem values and functions, and provide associated benefits to our community. 2. Social Community— Promote the skills, resources, and assurances needed for all community members to participate in the workforce and in their family, civic and cultural lives, within and among their neighborhoods, and in the larger community. 3. Economic Infrastructure— Build the region's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic well being of the community through support of both local and globally competitive initiatives. 4. Built Environment - Make public and private investments in the built environment to minimize environmental impact, maximize financial efficiency, optimize social equity and benefits, and improve public health. 11/15/2012 Page 1 V 5.0 12/03/12 2 High Priority Strategies, Actions & Partners Given the projected growth in our region and the challenges we already know we face, there are no easy answers. The challenges are multi-faceted and often inter-related. For this reason, we are breaking from discussing issues by topic and focusing on comprehensive, cross-cutting solutions in order to achieve a healthy, inclusive and prosperous community. Collective impact is the commitment of a group of important actors from We need to work different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific problem. These together to achieve sectors include the public (state, municipal and regional), business, and non- collective impact non- profit. If we do this well, we can achieve improved outcomes without the need for additional public expenditures. The ECOS Project will be implemented through this collective impact approach and is structured in the following way: 1. Strategies - Eight (8) broad, high priority, cross-cutting, strategic implementation measures. This list is not meant to be exhaustive or to undermine any steps currently underway to effect positive change, but to focus our 5 year implementation efforts. 2. Actions - Under each strategy is a list of general actions identifying the method in which the strategy will be achieved. The actions address the concerns of the community (see end of Chapter 2). Many of these are not new ideas however, they may need additional commitment or additional partners to achieve the desired outcomes. 3. Projects - The ECOS Project List in Appendix X(under development) includes specific projects proposed for implementation, that tie directly to the general actions. The ECOS Project List includes details regarding the Lead Partner, other partners, expected start date, and estimated costs, and funding sources. eoPle Heaithy En Together, this three tiered implementation r`�Q education Vtbrantpis 0,2 0 approach serves as a strategic plan for �e v�y te&p,�ts Housio c<,s �0 CCRPC, GBIC, and EGOS partners for °��``� �.� p�y0� the next 5 years. CCRPC will adopt the <cQo s actions and projects to which they are a ...attract, retain and party into their annual Unified Planning SLpPort,.. Which We Work Program and report progress each CIRCLE OF invest to have... year. It is important to note that when PROSPERITY implementing actions at the municipal level we must acknowledge the � o uniqueness of each community and resist 0 Q0. a blanket application. � °4, °ref °(a °. Q S'fjA t/0/ Orc� 4eQ While this implementation approach is `��rr dy%o edSe Which Q4r -10,5 increase... collective in that many partners are P°Pur S 11/15/2012 V 5.0 12/03/12 3 needed to participate, it is also collective in that no one piece will bring success without the others. For example, it will be difficult to achieve greater mobility, accessibility, affordability and health without concentrating development in our areas planned for growth. These relationships are described in this circle of prosperity. 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. Economic development is about building a community's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic well-being of residents. Providing access to good jobs that can support an adequate standard of living for all residents of a region or community; continuous and sustainable improvements in the internal functioning of the economy, where its structural underpinnings are made stronger without sacrificing long-term quality of life; and providing the means and the continuous processes to strengthen the foundation of our communities. Actions 1. Retain, develop, and attract high wage, value adding employers — The primary goal of any economic development strategy is retaining and growing the already existing high wage jobs within the economy. Providing support and connecting available resources is critical to ensuring that this economic base remains vital and is able to grow. The high wage sectors in which Chittenden County enjoys a competitive advantage are healthcare and social assistance; manufacturing; and professional, scientific and technical services. a. Build relationships with these employers b. Facilitate access to state resources, incentives, and programs such as the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive, Vermont Training Program, MORE... c. Market the quality of life — Chamber action 2. Identify and Permit Industrial/Manufacturing Site Locations —With only a few years supply of existing buildings or permitted sites left for high wage industrial or manufacturing businesses in the region, additional sites need to be identified and carefully planned to ensure a smooth permitting process to be ready for employers' needs for expansion or relocation in Chittenden County. The most likely employment sectors with this need are high wage, technology-based and other types of manufacturing. The best opportunities for these sites are on undeveloped land retained by current major employers. We must examine these undeveloped properties for environmentally responsible infill development opportunities considering water, waste water and transportation infrastructure; take sites through permitting. Work with ACCD to have business/industrial parks recognized as designated growth areas. Efforts should be made to educate businesses and developers on development practices that achieve a higher level of density, use less land, and provide for all modes of transportation. 11/15/2012 Page 3 V 5.0 12/03/12 4 3. Workforce Education and Skills Development— Promote public/private partnerships for education that connect the skills development infrastructure of our institutions of higher education, vocational programs, and technical schools with the direct needs of the Vermont workforce. If education takes place with connections to our economic needs, students and retrained workers will have their skill sets match with the employment market. 4. Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development— Coordinate and promote the providers, programs, and services already available in the State to create an economic ecosystem of resources that is easily navigable at all stages of the innovation and entrepreneurial continuum. This must aggregate and address services such as finding capital, mentorship, prototyping, commercialization, etc. a. Create or Improve a portal for small business start-ups and support services b. Encourage home-based small businesses in villages as allowed by municipal zoning. 5. Promote and Develop the Creative Economy and the Arts—Arts and the creative economy is what is drives a large and diverse amount of economic activity in our region (examples being in food, design, technology, media, craftsmanship/fabrication, arts, emergent media, music, dance, festivals, education, and recreation). This portion of the economy is fundamentally unique in that it is a significant contributor to the quality of life in our region, while also providing high value jobs. 6. Working Lands - Support value-added foods, farms and forest products through the work of Farm to Plate by VSJF and Working Lands Enterprise Board. See Strategy 4 for more details. 7. Tourism — continue good efforts in tourism including VT Convention Bureau, Lake Champlain Chamber and Lake Champlain Byways 8. Support related Strategy Actions: a. Public school education and work force training for careers demanding STEM b. Increase the affordability of housing. c. Make transportation and other investments in areas planned for growth 3.2.2 Strive for 80% of new development in areas planned for growth, which amounts to 15% of our land area. The areas planned for growth are defined as the Center, Metro, Suburban, Village, and Enterprise Planning Areas (all but Rural) as displayed on the Future Land Use Map. CCRPC is committed to annually monitoring the quantity and location of development to measure our progress on concentrating 80% of new growth in these Planning Areas at a regional scale (not each municipality). CCRPC will monitor this through annual updates of its housing, employment, and commercial/industrial square footage databases and also by 11/15/2012 Page 4 V 5.0 12/03/12 5 the State of Vermont's e911 locational database. The databases identify when a structure was built, number of dwelling units, employees, and square footage at a specific location. The major source of information for updating these databases will be gathered from CCRPC's member municipalities. Increasing investment in denser, mixed use growth areas will improve economic opportunities, housing options, transportation options and improve community health. Focusing growth in the appropriate planning areas is also a cost effective approach to increasing the supply of affordable housing, reducing energy consumption and using existing infrastructure efficiently. Actions 1. Invest in Areas Planned for Growth - a. Establish wastewater and water infrastructure in areas currently developed and/or planned for growth. b. Target reuse, rehabilitation, redevelopment, infill, and brownfield investments to the non-rural Planning Areas. c. Retrofit existing buildings to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. d. Improve design quality of high density areas. 2. Municipal Planning and Zoning - Strengthen and direct development toward areas planned for growth through infill development and adaptive reuse of existing buildings through municipal plan and bylaw revisions and state designation programs. a. Bylaws should be revised to improve the mix of uses, shared parking, support for transit, healthy options (for example walkability), energy efficiency, renewable energy and the affordability of housing. A particular emphasis is needed on providing for affordable rental housing. b. Integrate capital planning and budgeting in planning efforts to provide the right mix of infrastructure over time. Official maps can also be a useful tool to drive infrastructure improvements in the areas planned for growth. c. Health Impact Assessments (HIA) provide a tool to use at the regional, municipal, agency, and organizational level to assure that planning decisions maintain or improve the public health. Access can be improved by co- locating public facilities, in particular, medical and mental health facilities in areas with easy access via active transportation and public transit. Town health officers should be encouraged to participate in community planning efforts. 3. Affordable Housing — a. Implement incentives that encourage more housing construction including affordable and supportive housing. This could include increasing density in areas planned for growth, revising infrastructure requirements with a goal of reducing costs for developers, and possibly advocating for more Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts to help fund infrastructure improvements. 11/15/2012 Page 5 V 5.0 12/03/12 6 b. Local ordinances impacting the maintenance of existing buildings should be reviewed and amended (if necessary) to ensure they're encouraging maintenance and retrofits of existing housing stock without adding undue cost. Increase pathways to home ownership. c. Engagement and education efforts should be undertaken with municipal officials and staff, the public, and developers to promote better development practices that achieve a higher level of density without compromising our community character— creating types of development that is appealing to residents. 4. Energy a. Reduce Energy Consumption - Education and outreach to key sectors regarding weatherization, life cycle fuel costs, and behavioral adjustments will be essential elements for reducing energy use and costs over time. b. Encourage individual homes and businesses to include electric and thermal energy efficiency in building and/or retrofitting. Weatherization should be promoted as a first step to reduce overall energy consumption before investing in renewable energy systems. c. Provide alternatives to fossil fuels for heating. d. Reduce fossil fuel consumption in the transportation sector. e. Increase Renewable Energy Generation, to support the State's goal of 90% renewable energy by 2050. i. Determine appropriate sites for community-level renewable energy generation. ii. Encourage individual homes and businesses to include renewable energy options in building and/or retrofitting. 5. State/Local Permitting Coordination & Improvement— a. Support changes to the local and state permitting process to make the two more coordinated and streamlined. Participate in the Agency of Commerce and Community Development's (ACCD) process to improve the State's designation programs designed to encourage development in appropriately planned places and discourage development outside of those areas. This program could be improved with regulatory and/or fiscal incentives. These could include expedited permitting processes for projects in areas that are a) designated for growth and b) where a community has a robust plan, regulations and staff capacity; and reduction of redundancies such as delegation of permitting for certain local and state reviews (such as exemption from Act 250). In conjunction with delegation it may be appropriate to develop more stringent standards and thresholds for development review in rural areas. b. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure local and state regulations, bylaws and plans encourage transparency, predictability and timely review of sustainable and environmentally sound development applications. 6. Metropolitan Transportation Plan Investments — a. Adequately fund the maintenance and preservation of our existing transportation assets including roads, bridges, rail, transit, walking/biking 11/15/2012 Page 6 V 5.0 12/03/12 7 facilities, and transportation demand management (TDM) programs and facilities. b. New transportation system investment should focus on the highest priority transportation projects as detailed in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Project List. Specific focal areas for targeted implementation impact include: i. Expand Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for the roadway network, and traffic and transit operations, to improve safety and reduce congestion; ii. Expand the Go! Chittenden County Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program (including park and ride facility development) to reduce single occupancy vehicle (SOV )trips iii. Increase investment in CCTA transit services to increase user accessibility iv. Expand walking and biking infrastructure to support active transportation and to provide interconnection with the region's transit system v. Develop a regional network of electric vehicle charging stations to accommodate the growth in low emissions, low energy costs electric vehicles. 3.2.3 Improve the safety, water quality, and habitat of our rivers, streams, wetlands and lakes in each watershed. 1. River Hazard Protection — Develop and implement adaptation strategies to reduce flooding and fluvial erosion hazards. a. Identify problem locations - Conduct on the ground inventories and map flow and sediment attenuation locations and problematic infrastructure (undersized culverts, eroding roadways, "vulnerable infrastructure" - infrastructure subject to repeat damage and replacement, etc.). b. Revise bridge/culvert designs - Revise public works and zoning ordinances with culvert and bridge design specifications that allow for wildlife passage and movement of floodwater and debris during high intensity events. Implement culvert and bridge designs that produce stable structure in river channels (i.e. fluvial geomorphology). c. Protect River Corridors & Ensure Enforcement — Existing bylaws protect the majority of Fluvial Erosion Hazard (FEH) areas with stream setbacks and floodplain regulations; improve bylaws to protect the FEH hazard zones not currently protected and enforce these bylaws. Continue protection of river corridors including non-regulatory protection measures such as stream re- buffering and culvert and bridge replacements. d. Support non-regulatory conservation and/or preservation of vulnerable areas through public and land trust investments. 2. Non-point Source Pollution - While we have addressed point sources of pollution, non- point sources are still contributing pollutants to our water bodies. 11/15/2012 Page 7 V 5.0 12/03/12 8 a. Assemble data —Work from existing data collected and further identify the locations that are contributing to water quality pollution such as flow, sediment, pathogen and nutrient. Where needed, conduct on the ground inventories of water quality and biological assessments (in-stream), wetlands, sub-watersheds, river corridors (buffered or not) and geomorphology. Map the existing and new data on one regional map. b. Revise Plans and Bylaws and Ensure Enforcement -- Incorporate the above data into municipal plans; establish specific statements that protect these resources; develop clear standards for how to protect these resources within zoning regulations; and initiate on-going enforcement of the regulations. Encourage low impact development techniques, and shared storm water control programs to maximize land development in areas planned for growth. Incentivize best management practices for agricultural uses. c. Implement Non-regulatory approaches - Identify and implement non-regulatory approaches to nutrient, pathogen and sediment pollution management. Under proposed MS4 permit requirements, municipalities will be developing flow restoration plans to achieve the total maximum daily load requirements for individual streams, rivers, and Lake Champlain. These plans may require additional public investment in storm water facilities or investments or actions by individual property owners. Support watershed organizations. 3.2.4 Increase investment in and decrease subdivision of working lands and significant habitats, and support local food systems. 1. Habitat Preservation - Protect forests, wetlands and agricultural lands from development, and promote vegetative landscaping in urban areas in order to maintain natural habitats, natural storm water management and carbon sequestration. This will keep people and infrastructure out of harm's way and allow for natural flood attenuation areas. a. Inventory - Conduct on the ground surveys and inventories of significant habitats (include wetlands), connectivity corridors, scenic resources and locations of invasive species and map this information. Incorporate this data into municipal and regional plan text and maps and establish specific policies that address and protect these resources. b. Bylaws - Develop clear definitions of the resources to be protected and establish standards to describe how to protect these resources within zoning and subdivision regulations. c. Education - Educate engineers, developers, real estate professionals, planners and the public regarding resources and methods for restoration and protection. d. Support non-regulatory conservation and/or preservation through public and land trust investments. 11/15/2012 Page 8 V 5.0 12/03/12 9 2. Working Lands Implementation — Support implementation of the Farm to Plate Strategic Plan and the VT Working Landscape Partnership Action Plan. a. Bylaws- Develop clear definitions of working lands to be protected and establish standards to describe how to protect these areas within zoning and subdivision regulations. Maintain access and scale of working lands to ensure viability after subdivision in the rural landscape (including but not limited to protection of log landings of previously logged forested parcels, and zoning techniques such as fixed area ratio zoning to separate lot size from density and conservation zoning); while promoting urban agriculture in areas planned for growth. b. Infrastructure & Systems — support establishment of food processing industries, value-added product markets, workforce training, etc to help support the viability of these industries. c. Support non-regulatory conservation and/or preservation through public and land trust investments. 3.2.5 Increase opportunity for every person in our community to achieve optimal health and personal safety. 1. Emergency Preparedness a. Assure that all municipalities and social service organizations have well- developed emergency preparedness plans that take an all-hazards approach and thereby can be used in weather emergencies as well as biological, chemical, radiological and terrorist emergencies; address the needs of their residents/clients with access or functional needs; and address the needs or residents/clients who speak a language other than English. i. Assure an understanding of these plans by entities named in the plan as well as those supported in the plan. ii. Practice implementing the plan through regular emergency exercises. b. Train Chittenden County employers on the development, practice, and regular review of Businesses Continuity Plans and Business Recovery Plans. c. Develop systems that monitor for impacts of climate-change that would affect human health or safety. Assure communication systems are in place to share this information with entities that are best suited to engage in prevention planning and provide any necessary emergency support. 2. Basic needs — Provide the basic needs of all people through access to food and access to shelter. 3. Obesity - Create policies and environmental supports that increase access to active transportation, active recreation, and healthy foods. 4. Substance Abuse - Reduce youth access and exposure to tobacco and alcohol by restricting retail promotion of tobacco and alcohol products and designating tobacco 11/15/2012 Page 9 V 5.0 12/03/12 10 and alcohol free outdoor public spaces and events. Further reinforce the existing work that is already happening to address youth and adult substance abuse. 5. Caregiving -Assure that older adults and people with disabilities are well cared for as needed. a. Support family members who provide care for them. b. Ensure that older adults and people with disabilities who need formal care in their daily living have access (including transportation) to the appropriate services as needed. 6. Social Connectedness - Increase opportunities for residents to come together, interact, and network. a. Support organizations and businesses that bring diverse people together around a myriad of themes: arts and cultural events, recreational and leisure activities, civic engagement initiatives, educational workshops, family events, or any other activity that brings people together with a common interest. 3.2.6 Equip our residents with the education and skills that they need to thrive. Vermont is home to a public education system that has provided a significant economic benefit to students, businesses and the broader community. There is vital connection between a strong education system, the attractiveness of our region, and a healthy economy. Nonetheless, like much of the nation, Vermont faces challenges. We have an aging workforce, an increasing number of jobs that require a post-secondary degree, entrants to the workforce and college who lack the basic skills necessary to be successful and a lingering achievement gap for low income and students of color. In an environment with fewer students in the system to enter the workforce, it is an economic and community imperative that our we improve regional equity and quality to help a higher percentage of all students achieve college and career readiness than ever before. 1. Establish a Chittenden County regional initiative of all interested stakeholders to undertake the action steps below drawing upon successful nationally recognized programs in other states. (e.g. STRIVE in Cincinnati, OH) 2. Elementary Readiness and Comprehensive Student Needs — Students need to begin kindergarten and every school day after that ready to learn. a. Improve access and funding for pre-kindergarten programs so that children are ready to learn by the time they begin kindergarten. b. Ensure that our young children are nurtured by knowledgeable and capable caregivers by: increasing the capacity, knowledge and skills of parents to nurture their young children; providing families access to high quality early care and education settings; and, supporting the ability of early care and education providers to develop the skills and knowledge needed to care for children. c. Provide adequate meals to students who need them. 11/15/2012 Page 10 V 5.0 12/03/12 11 d. Quantify the financial realities of the human service cost shift and integrate the social, health and nutritional services that schools currently provide. 3. Student-centered, Proficiency-based, Flexible Pathways to Graduation - Build the school capacity to support proficiency-based, individualized learning with access to any opportunity that will keep a student engaged in learning and achieve college and career readiness. a. Adopt the Smarter Balanced assessments, which are administered on-line and based on the Common Core Standards. These assessments provide teachers with rapid results, allowing for timely adjustments. b. Develop academic consistency across the county to alleviate disparities in education. Measure and track disparities and achievement gaps for low income and students of color to adjust programs to achieve equitable outcomes. Eliminate climate issues and bias that disrupt learning (by race, gender, gender orientation, and class). c. Include flexible educational pathway. Develop a comprehensive advisory system within schools that includes a sustained relationship with an advisor throughout a student's career, and a personal learning plan tied to proficiency expectations for graduation rather than Carnegie units of credit. These plans may rely on traditional course-work, school choice, college courses through dual enrollment, internships for credit, on-line courses, community-based work, and service learning. d. Expand the use of on-line resources and technology such as the Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative, to which only one third of Vermont high schools have signed on and the Learning Network of Vermont (real time interactive video technology in 130 Vermont school sites). 4. Consistency Across the System - Make the changes to governance necessary to improve consistency and equity across the state. a. Adopt a common statewide school calendar that runs throughout the year to deter summer learning loss. b. Adopt a common, statewide daily schedule to allow for distance learning, flexible pathways and the ability to access courses outside of a home school district. c. Adopt a statewide teacher's contract, with allowance for regional cost-of-living disparities, and acknowledgment for innovation. d. Set a state deadline for voluntary consolidation to achieve a target number of supervisory unions and districts. If the necessary consolidation is not achieved voluntarily, the Legislature should appoint an independent panel (retired judges?) to draft a statewide slate of consolidations. Ask districts and SUs to describe what unique circumstances prevent their reorganization to serve an average of 1,500 students. Grass roots, community-driven consolidation is the healthiest and most viable course. However, reducing the number of SUs and school districts presents an opportunity to use cost savings to support innovation. 5. Career Awareness/Skill Alignment 11/15/2012 Page 11 V 5.0 12/03/12 12 a. Develop a community needs advisory system that embeds current and anticipated college readiness and career information from colleges and employers into each district and supervisory union (SU). b. Strengthen programming in math by improving the numeracy skills and confidence of educators and adopting strong math benchmarks based on the Common Core. c. Allow Career and Technical Education Centers to be accessible either full or part-time starting in the 9th grade. d. Offer credit-bearing, structured, 40-hour internships subsequent to a 20-hour pre-employment skills segment, and tied to a high school learning outcome. Based on the Linking Learning to Life TIPS (Training Interns & Partnering for Success) model for structured internships. e. Provide training and support for people who are leaving incarceration f. To develop creative and collaboration skills, make sure there are opportunities for students to come together, interact, and network. Bring diverse people together around arts, music, cultural events, recreation, and sports activities. 6. Teacher Preparation and Ongoing Professional Development a. Support innovation in teacher preparation, training and ongoing professional development. Twenty-first century teachers are facilitators, coaches and guides who will measure student learning through proficiency, instead of serving as the exclusive distributors of classroom and course content. b. Allow for greater flexibility in licensing to accommodate transitions from career to classroom. 7. Postsecondary aspiration, continuation, retention and completion - Public higher education in Vermont is chronically underfunded relative to the rest of the nation. In the near term, additional state investment should be targeted to desired performance: enrollment of Vermonters and successful degree completion. a. Adopt a loan forgiveness program tied to the timely completion of a degree, in which a student or his/her parents are provided with a tax credit to be staggered over five years which forgives the equivalent of one year's tuition at a four-year public college. b. For students who demonstrate college or career readiness before they would otherwise finish high school, use the state's commitment to their education through age eighteen to support an additional year of learning. This funding might be applied to an apprenticeship, an experience in entrepreneurship, a certificate program, a year in college, an internship, or community service. 3.2.7 Develop financing and governance systems to make the most efficient use of taxpayer dollars and reduce costs. 1. Community Development Finance Tools — Expand and improve implementation of financing tools available to municipalities with particular emphasis on options that level the playing field between greenfield development and infill development and to help direct new investment dollars to strengthen existing neighborhoods (Smart Growth Network). This would include tax increment financing (TIF), Local Option Sales Taxes, Impact Fees, Special Assessment Districts, and capital planning and 11/15/2012 Page 12 V 5.0 12/03/12 13 budgeting. Also support downtown tax credits, State Designated Growth Centers, Downtowns, Villages, New Town Centers, and Neighborhoods. Explore and develop other financing mechanisms for maintaining and improving infrastructure. Develop revolving loan funds for business to improve access to capital. 2. Affordable housing financing and Implementation — Increase resources for housing, which includes but is not limited to: local housing trust Funds, state housing trust fund, state housing tax credits, and strongly advocating for increased federal resources. 3. Energy Investment— Encourage property assessed clean energy (PACE) efforts, weatherization, tax incentives and other financing opportunities for investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. 4. Transportation Financing - Encourage municipalities to implement local transportation funding programs such as Tax Increment Financing Districts, Local Option Sales Taxes, Impact Fees, Special Assessment Districts. Monitor and participate in state and federal transportation financing reform efforts such as the 2012 Vermont Legislature's Act 153, Section 40 Transportation Funding study and the Natural Resources Board/VTrans Fair Share Cost Study. 5. Clean water Financing — Monitor and participate in state financing reform such as the 2012 Vermont Legislatures Act 138 study which ANR's is leading to make recommendations on how to implement and fund the remediation or improvement of water quality. 6. Monitor State and municipal tax burdens (education, municipal services and state) - Examine the structure of government to identify opportunities for restructuring, streamlining or eliminating programs to increase efficiency, reduce costs and enhance accountability. Substantive changes to our tax policy such as expanding the sales tax, internet and cloud taxation, and migrating to Adjusted Gross Income should not be made until we have a comprehensive picture of Vermont's tax structure, including the property tax and health care financing. 7. County coordination and alignment— Coordinate and align investments and actions to advance the ECOS Plan. Monitor and report accomplishments. 8. Multi-jurisdictional services —There are a number of services that are provided on a regional or sub-regional basis. These include: Supervisory Unions, Chittenden Solid Waste District, Champlain Water District, Winooski Park District, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, Chittenden County Transportation Authority, Chittenden County Sherriff, Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations, and 911 dispatch. Examine and advance appropriate, efficient and effective governance structures to deliver improved services (i.e. Regional Walk/Bike/Park-n-Ride) 11/15/2012 Page 13 V 5.0 12/03/12 14 3.2.8 Ensure that the projects and actions in all ECOS strategies assess equity impacts, and that the design and development of programs are inclusive of all and engage underrepresented populations. 1. Track and analyze inequities in all sectors. 2. Target and prioritize positive programs and investments to low opportunity places (see Opportunity Map). 3. Civic Engagement - Increase opportunities and remove barriers for civic engagement for all, including underrepresented populations. a. Provide leadership development training for all civic leaders, including underrepresented communities, to increase knowledge about and encourage service on boards and commissions. b. Increase boards' and commissions' knowledge and understanding about diverse population and importance of inclusion and representation. c. Support voter registration drives targeting all citizens, including underrepresented groups. d. Invest in the naturalization process: civics classes, connected with civic opportunities. e. Appoint members of underrepresented communities to committees, boards, and commissions. f. Key documents should be made accessible online and translated (or translation services available when necessary). g. Improve municipal and regional government organization websites to increase accessibility of English and non-English speaking community members while complying with ADA standards. 11/15/2012 Page 14 V 5.0 12/03/12 15 .-.1k1iy C9;yTy jc • �2 '1 ; 5 • g n 7 • 2 C • IiND-F, ':/ • --- I WILL1.-o,air- • ..,. t '101 o • • CH.,RLOTTE Legend 1:180,000 ;o Planning Areas 0 1.5 3 Miles ~ Center . . . I 1 Metro V hem Suburban .0,1„.„,., Enterprise System,Ns Village Rural REGIONAL PLANNING AREAS: FUTURE LAND USE 2013 CHITTENDEN COUNTY REGIONAL PLAN IMMA SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY V 5.0 12/03/12 16 Draft#2 EGOS Project List-October 18,2012 # Municipality/Sponsor Project Name(& Description/Comments Estimated 50%Local Match Possible Start EDAIECOS Champion) Cost Source(s) Date Strategies 1 Bolton none Suberblock ?? private/public 2 redevelopment Redevelopment of the super block partnership at Main and North Winooski-add Burlington one sentence description ?? ?? ?? 3 Burlington Fire station consolidation -add one sentence description 4 Downtown parking study $??for study ?? ?? Burlington and implementation -add one sentence description 5 Housing renovation and ?? Burlington construction -add one sentence description Burlington District Heating Plan Plan to recapture"waste heat"from Feasibility study$140,000 grant and in- the McNeil power plant and underway;cost kind to pay for study 6 distribute it to the Old North End of not yet Burlington,a densely populated estimated area within the City. Burlington Moran Plan/Waterfront To redevelop one of the last $21,000,000 $2.3 million in BEDI 2011 Redevelopment parcels/vacant buildings on the Grant and Section 108 shores of Lake Champlain in Loan;$1.3 Million in 7 downtown Burlington.The Moran Historic Tax Credits; plant has been vacant for decades $1.5 Million in Grants and the city is now working to develop a private/public partnership to renovate the facility Burlington Pine Street Parking: Redevelop Brownfield at 453 Pine $4,000,000 Local funding;area 2013 Redevelopment of 453 St to accommodate parking needs businesses 8 Pine of area businesses and allow growth in the South End.Possible _ inclusion of solar array 9 Burlington Burlington Eco Park Food -add one sentence description $4,200,000 Need grants ?? Enterprise Center 10 Burlington Intervale Heated -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? Greenhouse 11 Burlington Gilbane Smart Growth -add one sentence description $65,000,000 $51,000,000 ?? Center,Phase III 12 Burlington YMCA -add one sentence description $13,000,000 Will be raising money Ongoing Burlington School District Burlington High School to meet 21st century leaming $5 million to ?? 2014 Renovations needs,such as electrical outlets start basic 13 and capacity,wireless upgrades;$80 infrastructure,smart boards and million for projectors complete renovations Burlington,South Burlington Airport Improvements- Construction of berm and 33,000,000 ?? ?? 14 PHASE 1 placement of fill for new aircraft parking area 15 Burlington,South Burlington Airport Improvements- Taxiway/apron system to serve $500,000 ?? ?? PHASE 2 south end 16 Burlington,South Burlington Airport Improvements- construction of taxiway/air cargo $8,500,000 ?? ?? PHASE 3 apron Burlington,South Burlington Airport Improvements- construction of air cargo/general $18,000,000 ?? ?? 17 PHASE 4 aviation buildings and related facilities 18 Burlington/South Burlington Airport Industrial Park - ant from above? $55,000,000 $35,000,000 secured ?? 19 Charlotte Craft Incubator in"Gardeners Supply"building ?? ?? - ?? 20 Charlotte Community wastewater -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? for Charlotte village Charlotte Alberts Way affordable Habitat for Humanity.3 single $900,000 ?? ?? 21 housing units family homes and 1 duplex=5 units total Colchester Biotechnology Research -add one sentence description $10,000,000 No funding yet.Will ??-Feasibility Park/Incubator seek grants for study 2010, 22 emerging technologies design and being developed. construction 2012. 23 Colchester "Branding"Colchester -add one sentence description S20,000 ?? ?? Colchester Colchester Strategic Implement recommendations of the ?? 24 Economic Development 2012 Colchester Economic Plan Implementation Development Plan Colchester Burnham Memorial The current public community $5,000,000 Friends of the Library 2014 Library Expansion library has outgrown its space and &Library Trustees 25 is limited to what it can and should primary fundraising potentially offer to the public. source 26 Colchester Waste Water Treatment&Far Mallets Bay and Exit 17 area- $30,000,000 ?? ?? Service add one sentence description Colchester Water Storage Capacity Provide necessary fire storage $1,500,000 ?? ?? 27 Addition&Expanded capacity for growth center Distribution System (Colchester) Colchester Multi-Generational Land secured;funding needed to $5,000,000 ?? ?? 28 Community Recreation build. Center(Colchester) 20 Colchester 24/7 Municipal with capacity to issue permits and $200,000 ?? ?? Government collect taxes and fees on line Colchester Community Broadband -add one sentence description $500,000 ?? ?? 30 Wireless Technology Access(Colchester) Colchester Fiber optic Redundancy in -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? 31 Colchester's 3 economic zones(Colchester) Colchester,Essex,Milton, Partnership Revolving -add one sentence description-is $490,000 VT Community Ongoing 32 Winooski Loan Fund Capitalization this still a project Development Program. CSWD,Burlington,Colchester, Relocate Burlington, -add one sentence description $500,000 Partially funded ?? 33 Hinesburg Colchester and Hinesburg Drop-Off Centers 34 Essex Junction Civic Center(Essex Checking with CVE $30,000,000 ?? Junction) 35 Essex Junction Pavilion for Music and Checking with CVE $6,000,000 ?? Special Events(CVE) V 5.0 12/03/12 17 Essex Junction Renovation&expansion Checking with CVE $10,000,000 ?? ?? of Champlain Valley 36 Exposition pavilion& agricultural facilities (Essex Junction) Essex Junction Storm water -add one sentence description $350,000 ?? ?? 37 Improvements(Essex Junction) 38 Essex Junction/Williston Sewer Treatment Plant -add one sentence description $1,610,000 Borrowing 2012 Refurbishment Essex Town Saxon Hill Industrial Area This study would help identify ways $50,000 Seek state planning ?? Development Plan Study to improve inter-governmental grant,developer, 39 (Essex Town) coordination and facilitate the landowner and logical planned development of 185 planning funds from available acres EDA Essex Town Susie Wilson Road Dennis to check plan ?? ?? ?? Transit Oriented Design 40 Master Plan-Feasibility and Water and Sewer Capacity Study Essex Town Combined New Municipal -add one sentence description $4,000,000 ?? 41 Building&Incubator (Essex Town) 42 Essex Town Highway garage -add one sentence description $360,000 capital budget 2018 expansion Essex Town Indoor Recreation space -add one sentence description $30,000 for capital budget 2013 43 feasibility study& study construction 44 Essex Town Sand Hill waterlines and -add one sentence description $200,000 capital budget ?? pressure reducing valves 45 Essex Town Stormwater -add one sentence description $2,000,000 capital budget ?? Improvements 46 Essex Town Water Storage Tank -add one sentence description $800,000 capital budget 47 Essex Town Library Complete deferred maintenance& $109,000 capital budget expansion 48 Essex Town New Police Station -add one sentence description $6,000,000 capital plan Essex Town Sanitary Sewer -add one sentence description $2,000,000 capital plan 49 installation for Pinecrest Dr.&Susie Wilson Road 46 Hinesburg Extension of 3-phase to South Hinesburg along VT116 by ?? ?? power Green Mountain Power 51 Hinesburg Extension of Natural Gas in Hinesburg up Richmond Road by 77 Service Vermont Gas Hinesburg New water service either with a new well or connection ?? 52 to Champlain Water District 53 Huntington Village wastewater ??-not sure if this is decided... ?? on service 54 Jericho Village water/wastewater -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? 55 Jericho Library improvements Improve to be ADA compliant and ?? - ?? ?? add community center Milton Town Core Lighting this project includes 3 lighting $2,701,408 Seek grants,loans, 2015 Project(Milton) projects designed to continue the and local funding,TIF upgrade of the street lighting to a more aesthetically pleasing fixture throughout the new town core.The 56 anticipated public benefits of this project include enhanced night-time ambience,improved safety and accessibility for multi-modal transportation users,including drivers,bicyclists,and pedestrians Regional-GBIC Industrial Site Capacity Site(s)identification,site acquisition $100,000 GBIC,Private Building and/or site control resources(grants, Contributions.State funding sources for loans/investments), Funds permitting and resources to cover permitting costs.infrastructure funding and development. 57 Regional Regional Transit Funding Examine alternative models for ?? ?? financing the operation of the 58 regional transit system Regional Chittenden County A non-profit economic and planning $4,000,000 Cynosure ?? Economic Resource support resources center anchored Center(GBIC) by GBIC with co-location by CCRPC,CCMPO,LCRCC,VT SBDC,VMEC,VEDA,and other related non-profits 59 Regional College Connections -add one sentence description $55,000 Private Foundations, Program Expansion and VSAC(fed funds), Enhancement(Linking Higher Ed Institutions, 60 Learning to Life) Employers Regional Education and Business -odd one sentence description $68,000 Private Foundations, Intermediary Capacity VSAC(fed funds), Building(Linking Learning Employers 61 to Life) Regional High School Internships -add,n:. $25,000 Private Foundations, Coordination(Linking Employers 62 Learning to Life) Regional PILOT Youth Leadership _ $20,000 Private Foundations, Program(Lulling Learning state funds 63 to Life) Regional Aviation Technical Center -add one sentence description $8,300,000 $1.5 Million NASA ?? Grant(For Programming Costs Only);$300,000 Vermont Legislative Allocation;$30,000 64 State CDBG V 5.0 12/03/12 18 Regional Analysis of Alternative -add one sentence description $170,000 Funded ?? Waste Management 65 Systems(CSWD) Regional Conceptual Study to -add one sentence description $100,000 Not funded.CSWD will ?? Centralize Waste match any grant Management Facilities funding 66 (CSWD) Regional Construction of Regional -add one sentence description $30,000,000 To be borrowed ?? 67 Landfill(CSWD) Regional Construction of Special -add one sentence description $1,000,000 Not funded.CSWD will ?? Waste Management match any grant 68 System(CSWD) funding. Regional Design&Permitting of -add one sentence description $50,000 Not funded.CSWD will ?? Latex Paint Recycling match any grant Program Expansion funding. 69 (CSWD) Regional Design&Permitting of -add one sentence description $400,000 $300,000 budgeted; Regional Landfill(CSWD) $100,000 in grants 70 possibly needed Regional Develop Business and -add one sentence description $60,000 Not funded.CSWD will ?; Location Plan for Drop-Off match any grant Center Program(CSWD) funding. 71 72 Richmond New Water Tower -add one sentence description $1,500,000 State and Local ?? Richmond Village Subsurface improve water and sewer lines on E $2,100,000 Local,State,Federal 2017 Project Main and Bridge St Transportation 73 Funding Shelbume Form-based code on North of the Village $70,000 State,CCRPC,Local 2013 74 Shelbume Road South Burlington City Center Development -add one sentence description $4,000,000 Property Taxes,TIF, ?? 75 Private South Burlington Market Street -add one sentence description $2,000,000 Fed,Property Taxes, ?? 76 TIF,Private South Burlington City Center Parking Decks-add one sentence description $12,000,000 TIF/Private ?? 77 78 South Burlington New City Hall -add one sentence description $7,000,000 Property Taxes ?? South Burlington Storm water -add one sentence description $50,000,000 EPA STAG Grant, ?? Improvements local cost,town funds, US Congressional set- aside in Colchester 79 80 South Burlington Community Center -add one sentence description $11,000,000 Local ?? 81 South Burlington Library -add one sentence description $7,200,000 Federal/State/Local ?? St.George Growth Center -add one sentence description $20,000 Select board has ?? Designation/Master appropriated planning Planning funds but town would need grants to 82 "complete"process St.George Expansion of Village to enable concentrated growth ?? Town has funded Center Municipal Septic center feasibility study- System construction costs are undetermined(To be based on final design) 83 Underhill Village designation for -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? 84 Underhill Center Underhill Rezoning of Underhill -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? 85 Flats Underhill Rezoning of Underhill -add one sentence description ?? ?? ?? 86 Center 87 Underhill Jacobs parcel -add one sentence description ?? ?? VT Community Foundation, Partnership Revolving -add one sentence description $490,000 ?? ?? Colchester,Essex Town,Milton,Loan Fund Capitalization 88 Winooski Westford Town Salt&Salted Sand protect water resources from salt $250,000 Local 2015 89 Shed contamination Westford Upgrade/Expand provide an adequate number of $15,000 Local 2015 Municipal parking area parking spaces to serve the town 90 office Westford Westford Community to serve the Village center.Follow- $2,200,000 Fed/State/Local Wastewater up to 2008 wastewater feasibility 91 study. 92 Westford Form-based code -add one sentence description ?? ?? Williston Taft Comer Grid Streets -add one sentence description $3,900,000 local impact fees, ?? 93 private funds,grants Williston Water Storage Tank -add one sentence description $870,000 $400,000&Borrowing 2020 94 Expansion $470,000 Williston Williston Entry-Level Champlain Housing Trust,Williston $3,500,000 Buyer mortgages,VT ?? Housing. Interfaith Affordable Housing Task Community Force-add one sentence Development description Program;VT housing &Conservation Trust Fund;Habitat for 95 Humanity Williston Williston,Town Center Champlain Housing Trust-add one $3,500,600 Buyer mortgages;VT ?? Housing sentence description Community Development Program;Vermont 96 Housing Trust Fund Winooski Winooski West-end Assist with homeownership and ?? ?? 97 Revitalization literacy Winooski School District Winooski School District -add one sentence description $591,000 Municipal Funds Renovations and 98 Upgrades V 5.0 12/03/12 19 110 West Canal Street, Suite 202 I C H I TT E N D E N COUNTY R P C Winooski, Vermont 05404 2109 Communities Planning Together 802 846 4490 www.ccrpcvt.org MEMORANDUM TO: ECOS Interested Parties FROM: CCRPC Staff DATE: October 17,2012 RE: Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP)Project List The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission is required under Federal law to develop a Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP)for Chittenden County that covers a 25 year time horizon. This plan must be updated every five years. The plan identifies future transportation needs in the county and develops financial projections of anticipated funding expected to be available to support those needs. Future Transportation Needs The MTP Project List in Table 4 (attached) is a comprehensive compilation of projects designed to address future need and it comes from a variety of sources: the 2025 MTP, CCRPC corridor, scoping and technical analysis studies,the Pedestrian/Bike and Park&Ride Plans, CCTA's Transit Development Plan, and TAC and member municipality staff input. CCRPC staff has met over the past several months with all member municipalities to insure that all federally eligible projects, considered at both regional and local level,are accounted for in the list. It should be noted that projects which are considered to be transportation system maintenance(bridge repair/reconstruction,paving, etc.) are not included on the MTP Project List—these are accounted for globally within the funding category of system preservation and maintenance described below. Future Financial Projections The MTP must incorporate a financial section that estimates how much funding will be available from all transportation revenue streams over the life of the plan,how much funding will be needed for the cost of recommended transportation system improvements, and how much funding will be needed to cover these costs of maintaining and operating the existing transportation system. The single most critical issue for establishing how much MTP funding will be available between 2010 and 2035 is the future availability of federal funds since this source has historically accounted for 80%of the total transportation system investment. For the purposes of this plan, an estimate of available future funding has been developed based on the growth trend of statewide federal funding and CCRPC's historic share of statewide funding. Table 1 below summarizes the funding expected to be available to Chittenden County over the next 25 years. Of the$1,177 million in anticipated funding 80%is anticipated to come from federal sources and 20%from state and local sources. The funding available is expected to be allocated to three primary 1 V 5.0 12/03/12 20 areas: maintaining and preserving the existing system; implementing 2012 committed projects from the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)and the Circ Alternatives process; implementing new transportation system improvements from the MTP Project List. Table 1 Estimated Transportation Funding for Chittenden County:2010-2035 Future Estimates Mil/ions(2010S) Total Funding for Transportation System $1,177 Maintenance&Preservation Costs of the $754 Transportation System Cost of 2012 Committed Transportation Projects $113 (TIP and Circ Alternatives) Total Available New Funding (to address new transportation needs excluding TIP $310 &Circ Alternative projects) Cost of anticipated new transportation project $849 needs(MTP Project List) New transportation project funding deficit(new transportation project need minus total funding -$540 available for new projects) Maintaining the existing transportation system is a critically important task and it has been estimated that$754 million will be required to accomplish this—nearly two thirds of the total (see the chart on page 3). The plan also identifies $113 million for already committed projects listed in the current Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)and projects to be identified in the CIRC Alternatives planning process. The remaining funding available for new transportation needs is $310 million which is identified in Table 4, The MTP Project List. Table 2 below details how funding has been allocated over the past 13 years in Chittenden County by percent share to various project types. The sustainability evaluation criteria developed under the draft ECOS plan strongly suggest the desire for increased multimodal transportation options in the future. The Transportation Subcommittee of the Long Range Planning Committee (LRPC)proposes that the MTP reflect a gradual increase in funding for other transportation modes of five percent per five year period of the plan. Table 2 identifies the final ECOS target percents at the end of the 25 year period. All funding categories except roadway have been increased by five percent per five year period, and roadway has been reduced by the corresponding amount. With this funding allocation strategy 64 percent of the overall funding remains committed to maintaining the existing transportation system which includes road, bridge and transit system maintenance. Committed TIP and Circ Alternatives projects are allocated 9.6 percent of anticipated revenues,new Roadway&Traffic Operations combine for an investment of 12.5 percent. Transit system investment consumes 8 percent of the future total with 5.9 percent allocated to Bike/Pedestrian,rail, and park& ride facilities. The third column in Table 2 applies the ECOS target funding percents to the estimate of funding available for new transportation needs and develops target funding levels. 2 V 5.0 12/03/12 21 Table 2 Chittenden County Transportation Funding:Historic Obligations&Future Recommendations ECOS Target Funding For Comparison FY99-11 FY99-11 Percents Applied to TIP ECOS Target VTrans Capital Program Category Estimated Funding Obligation Funding Levels * Program Percentages Available for New Funding Projects Percentages'* Bike& Pedestrian/ Enhancement 9.8% 12.5% $38,590,187 9.7% Park&Ride/Intermodal 0.9% 1.1% $3,425,082 3.9% Rail 6.8% 8.7% $26,805,678 11.8% Roadway 55.5% 43.2% 54.2% Safety&Traffic Operations 3.2% 4.1% $146,537,117 7.4% Transit 23.9% 30.5% $94,391,936 13.0% Totals 100% 100% $309,750,000 100.0% Notes: *Percent shares by funding category have been increased by 5%every 5 years for Bike&Ped/Enhancement,Park&Ride/ Intermodal,Rail,Safety&Traffic Operation and Transit.Roadway has been reduced by the corresponding amount. **Provided for comparison--Capital Program percentages reflect the percentage of federal funds for the listed categories. This is only a portion of the overall Capital Program. Table 3 and the Chart of Estimated Funding for Chittenden County: 2010-2035 outline the actual anticipated investments. Table 3 Estimated Transportation Funding for Chittenden County by Category 2010-2035 (201©$) Program Category in of Estimated Transportation Funding for Chittenden Millions Program County:2010-2035 Estimate of total future funds $1,177.0 100.0% Committed TIP projects and Circ Roadway/Safety Cost to maintain/preserve Alternatives &Traffic the existingtransportation 9.6% Operations p Tz.ssc system $754.0 64.0% =' Committed TIP projects and Circ Alternatives $113.3 9.6% New Roadway/Safety& Transportation Transit Traffic Operations $146.5 12.5% roeeas ze.s% 8.094 Transit $94.4 8.0% Rail Bike&Pedestrian/ ' .; 2.316_ � Cost to Enhancement $38.6 3.3% maintain/preserve ' Park&Ride/ Bike& ° the existing Intermodal Pedestrian/ Rail $26.8 2.3% transportation o.3% Enhancement system Park&Ride/Intermodal $3.4 0.3% 64 1°% 33% 3 V 5.0 12/03/12 22 Development of Prioritized MTP Project List Project evaluation criteria have been under development for months in the context of the Housing&Urban Development(HUD)funded Regional Sustainability Plan,the ECOS project. This plan will link more closely together formerly disparate planning activity—housing,economic development, social community, transportation,the environment,energy etc. The criteria have been developed to help rank and select projects across all subject areas and are designed to effectively lead us to a more sustainable future. The ECOS project evaluation criteria have been applied to the MTP Project List to develop a prioritized MTP Project List. Table 4(attached)presents the prioritized MTP Project List by ECOS project rank and by project program category. Each project has an estimated cost and the final column in the table provides a cumulative cost for each category. A dashed line has been drawn to indicate the projects that can be funded within the ECOS target funding levels.Note that in some cases the funding targets have not been reached because the next project below the line pushes the cumulative funding past the targeted budget for that category. The project implementation process over the course of 25 years is a dynamic process and may not adhere to this sequencing due to project specific factors such as permitting requirements,right of way needs, unanticipated funding or other factors. In such cases projects below the line may well advance over those above the line. Projects which have yet to be identified may arise for implementation. The Regional Plan (including the Metropolitan Transportation Plan)is updated every five years—new information on projects, funding,and conditions are updated. The most important factor for any project to advance for federal implementation funding is that the project appears on the list. A project's place,whether above or below the fiscal constraint line, is much less relevant than the inclusion of the project on the list. If a project were to arise and be ready to advance for funding with federal dollars which is not on the attached list,the Regional Plan(including the Metropolitan Transportation Plan)would be amended accordingly. The TAC provided significant feedback regarding prior versions of the MTP Project List; feedback regarding regional connectivity, safety,and implication for higher cost projects were addressed through re-evaluation of the calculation factor for cost/benefit. The correction of this factor resulted in a shift in project prioritization scores which appear to staff to be in alignment with concerns expressed by the TAC. Next Steps We would ask that you review the attached list and the recommendations contained within this memo and communicate any errors within the project descriptions which you may be aware of, as well as your comments on the approach which is outlined in the memo. Charlie Baker and Michele Boomhower will be meeting with municipal officials throughout November, December and January to present the ECOS Regional Plan Discussion Draft and obtain feedback. The Plan Discussion Draft is posted at the ECOS Website for public comment. It is anticipated that the CCRPC Board of Directors will review the Plan and move forward into the Plan Public Hearing process by mid-late winter. Please contact Michele Boomhower(mboomhower(a,ccrpcvt.org or 802-846-4490 x15)if you have questions or would like to submit comments. 4 V 5.0 12/03/12 23 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project Municipality Project Comments Cost MTP Category ECOS Rank Cumulative ID Cost Bike& Pedestrian /Enhancement-- 12.5 % --$38,590,187 2 Burlington Burlington Bike Path Rehabilitation Study completed $ 16,800,000 Bike&Pedestrian 1 $ 16,800,000 43 Colchester/Essex/ VT 15 Multi-use path Circ Alternatives Scoping Study 2012 $ 5,000,000 Bike&Pedestrian 6 $ 21,800,000 Essex Junction 111 South Burlington/ Muddy Brook Path Crossing Study completed $ 3,230,000 Bike&Pedestrian 20 $ 25,030,000 Williston Design and construction funds for municipal sidewalk 140 Regional Sidewalks Continuation of the TIP sidewalk program priorities through regional competetive grant program $ 9,375,000 Bike&Pedestrian 22 $ 34,405,000 3 Burlington Colchester Ave Bicycle/Pedestrian Improvements Prospect St to East Ave S 1,600,000 Bike&Pedestrian 27 $ 36,005,000 129 Winooski/Burlington Winooski Main St Bridge Bicycle Pedestrian Improvements Study completed but new study is needed to determine $ 1,550,000 Bike&Pedestrian 40 $ 37,555,000 preferred alternative and updated costs. 124 Williston Industrial Ave Sidewalks Scoping completed $ 400,000 Bike&Pedestrian 43 $ 37,955,000 22 Burlington Bike Share Program Establish system infrastructure $ 500,000 Bike&Pedestrian 62 $ 38,455,000 4 Burlington Colchester Ave mid-block Pedestrian Crossing Trinity Campus to Fletcher Allen Health Care $ 110,000 Bike&Pedestrian 63 $ 38,565,000 • • • Shared use path along RR ROW connecting Charlotte to 25 Burlington/Charlotte Champlain Path Rail Trail $ 14,000,000 Bike&Pedestrian 78 $ 52,565,000 Burlington Lindenwood Path and Crossing Improvements:New path These improvements are alternatives to the Queen City Park 89 South Burlington connecting Shelburne Road to Kmart Plaza and future Park Road crossing recommendation.See strategies P2a and P2b $ 360,000 Bike&Pedestrian 79 $ 52,925,000 and Ride facility&Crosswalk and median refuge at and discussion in the Shelburne Road Corridor study's Lindenwood Drive(including a Ped Hybrid Beacon). Implementation Plan 108 South Burlington Bike/Ped Bridge over 1-89 in vicinity of Exit 14 Part of mutlimodal alternatives from Tri-City Transit study $ 10,000,000 Bike&Pedestrian 80 $ 62,925,000 65 Essex Junction Essex Junction VT 15 Corridor Path(Village to West St) S uudd�)completed(Rt 15 Bicycle and Pedestrian Feasibility $ 1,680,000 Bike&Pedestrian 87 $ 64,605,000 17 Burlington Stairway Street Waterfront access $ 850,000 Bike&Pedestrian 89 $ 65,455,000 21 Burlington North/South Bicycle Route Complete bicycle route connection $ 550,000 Bike&Pedestrian 90 $ 66,005,000 62 Essex VT 2A Path Plan Old Colchester Road to Pinecrest $ 400,000 Bike&Pedestrian 91 $ 66,405,000 26 Burlington/Winooski Blue Bridge Bike/Ped over the Winooski River Adj.to RR Bridge $ 2,270,000 Bike&Pedestrian 95 $ 68,675,000 127 Winooski Riverwalk East Extend existing riverwalk eastward under 1-89 to Colchester. $ 1,020,000 Bike&Pedestrian 97 $ 69,695,000 53 Colchester/South Island Line"Cut"Crossing Study complete,engineering complete,permits in place- $ 1,270,000 Bike&Pedestrian 100 $ 70,965,000 Hero need construction funding 54 Essex Essex Town Path Along VT 289 VT 15 to VT 117 $ 450,000 Bike&Pedestrian 102 $ 71,415,000 128 Winooski Riverwalk West Extend existing riverwalk westward to Colchester town line. $ 1,569,000 Bike&Pedestrian 103 $ 72,984,000 52 Colchester Heineberg-Blakely Bypass Bike Path $ 365,000 Bike&Pedestrian 107 $ 73,349,000 Dasl3ed�ibesiVc T2ECOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.2 Page 1 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project • Cumulative LU Municipality Project Comments Cost M'I'P Category EGOS Rank Cost 85 Shelburne Falls Road Bike/Pd Bridge Erect bridge over LaPlatte Rive for safe pedestrian and $ 637,000 Bike&Pedestrian 108 $ 73,986,000 bicyclist crossing. 28 Colchester Island Line Trail-Causeway Rehabilitation Study completed $ 3,000,000 Bike&Pedestrian 109 $ 76,986,000 114 Westford Sidewalk connecting the Library,Town Offices&Brick Study completed $ 181,000 Bike&Pedestrian 114 $ 77,167,000 Meeting I louse adjacent to the Town Green 113 Underhill Pedestrian Improvements in Underhill Flats $ 360,000 Bike&Pedestrian 118 $ 77,527,000 87 Shelburne Northeast Loop Road Sidewalk $ 1,500,000 Bike&Pedestrian 121 $ 79,027,000 Construction of Segments 1(From Ethan Allen Road to MMU,1,750'including 90'prefab 10'bridge design and 71 Jericho MMU Pathway construction estimated at$468,000)&2(From Pratt Road to $ 793,000 Bike&Pedestrian 122 $ 79,820,000 Ethan Allen Road,1,650'design and construction estimated at$325,000) 96 South Burlington Spear St-Allen Rd to Quarry Hill Rd Bicycle Pedestrian Cost estimate based on 3 mile segment with sidewalk on both $ 9,540,000 Bike&Pedestrian 129 $ 89,360,000 Improvements sides and expanded shoulder on one side. 81 Richmond Bridge Street Streetscape Project Sidewalks,Street Trees,Lighting $ 1,089,201 Bike&Pedestrian 130 $ 90,449,201 82 Richmond East Main Street Streetscape Project Sidewalks,Street Trees,Lighting $ 1,538,571 Bike&Pedestrian 131 $ 91,987,772 Dast d�ir0esli c,ic,gi1TICOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this seouencing.2gaae 2 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project Cumulative ID Municipality Project Comments Cost MTP Category ECOS Rank lost Park&Ride/Intermodal Facility--1.1%--$3,425,082 107 South Burlington US RT 7/1-189 intersection Intercept Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#4 priority Intercept facility $ 5,000 Park&Ride 23 $ 5,000 121 Williston Taft Corners Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#2 priority $ 255,000 Park&Ride 32 $ 260,000 86 Shelburne Town Center Park and Ride Improve rail station lot for park and ride use $ 15,000 Park&Ride 37 $ 275,000 68 Hinesburg Hinesburg Village Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#7 priority $ 90,000 Park&Ride 41 $ 365,000 84 Shelburne Shelburne Village Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#3 priority $ 2,250 Park&Ride 41 $ 367,250 59 Essex Essex Center,VT 15/CIRC Park&Ride Park&Ride plan priority#12 $ 186,000 Park&Ride 47 $ 553,250 112 St.George VT RT116/VT RT 2A intersection Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan#21 priority $ 248,000 Park&Ride 47 $ 801,250 _ _ 12Burlington _ ___Northern Connector/VT 127/RR Park&Ride ______ _I'ark&Ride Plan priority#13 ____ _ _________$_ _ 959,00_0_Park Ri&Ride ____ ____53____ $ __1,760,250_ 106 South Burlington 1-89/VT RT 116 Park& Ride Park&R Pl ide an#22 priority $ 2,329,000 Park& de 55 $ 479,250 42 Colchester VT RT 15/Barnes Ave intersection Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan#5 priority Intercept facility $ 10,000,000 Park&Ride 60 $ 14,089,250 123 Williston Williston Town Office Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#5 priority $ 120,000 Park&Ride 61 $ 14,209,250 27 Charlotte Charlotte Ferry Rd/US 7 Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#8 priority $ 215,000 Park&Ride 65 $ 14,424,250 69 Jericho VT RT 15 Park and Ride Park&Ride Plan#11 priority $ 120,000 Park&Ride 66 $ 14,544,250 58 Essex Essex Center VT 15&Allen Martin Drive Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#6 priority $ 200,000 Park&Ride 69 $ 14,744,250 77 Milton Milton Town Office Park&Ride/Multimodal Center Park&Ride plan#4 priority $ 870,000 Park&Ride 74 $ 15,614,250 41 Colchester US RT 7/Severance Rd Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan priority#18 $ 372,000 Park&Ride 75 $ 15,986,250 105 South Burlington 189 Exit 14 Intercept Park and Ride Facility New park and ride intercept facility with direct access from $ 18,000,000 Park&Ride 76 $ 33,986,250 189 southbound off ramp 24 Burlington South End Transit Center expansion Park&Ride Plan 112 priority Intercept facility $ 18,000,000 Park&Ride 84 $ 51,986,250 1 Bolton US 2/Bolton Access Rd Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#10 priority $ 50,000 Park&Ride 92 $ 52,036,250 79 Richmond Richmond Village Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#9 priority $ 165,000 Park&Ride 94 $ 52,201,250 40 Colchester US RT 7/1-89 Exit 16 Intercept Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan Intercept#3 priority $ 14,000,000 Park&Ride 99 $ 66,201,250 122 Williston Redmond Road/CIRC intersection Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan priority#19 $ 496,000 Park&Ride 104 $ 66,697,250 61 Essex VT RT 117/CIRC Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan priority#17 $ 186,000 Park&Ride 106 $ 66,883,250 39 Colchester VT RT 127/Proposed CfRC terminus Park&Ride Park&Ride Plan priority#16 $ 548,000 Park&Ride 116 $ 67,431,250 80 Richmond US RT 2/Cochran Road/Jonesville Park&Ride Park&Ride plan#14 priority $ 62.000 Park&Ride 124 $ 67,493,250 Rail—8.7%--$26,805,678 Rail upgrades to support Amtrak service. Cost only includes 131 Regional Rail Middlebury to Burlington Rail Upgrades Chittenden County portion for rail,crossings and lights. No $ 1,600,000 Rail 59 $ 1,600,000 —•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—._._._._._._•—•_•---•—•—• operating costs included.—•—• •—•—•—•—•—•---•—•—•—•— —•—•—•—•— —•—•—•—•— Inprovements to allow passenger rail including freight and storage sidings,passing tracks,signals crossings and 5 stations 133 Regional Rail Essex Junction to Burlington Commuter Rail $ 84,000,000 Rail 81 $ 85,600,000 for hourly service. Includes estimated 25 years of operating expenses of$48,400,000 Commuter rail service as included in the 2025 MTP- 134 Regional Transit Passenger Rail Service to adjoining regions:St.Albans to connecting north and east. Track improvments in place,cost $ 53,500,000 Rail 82 $ 139,1 OQ000 Montpelier is for 2 anticipated new stations and CC share of annual operating expenses 132 Regional Rail Essex Junction to Burlington 286 Rail Upgrade Freight rail structural upgrades to allow railcars up to 286,000 $ 5,500,000 Rail 86 $ 144,600,000 pounds Dastte jiaesjincic t� COS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.2_Page 3 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project Cntnnlativc t, , Municipality Project Comments Cost M'I"P Category EGOS-Rank Cost Roadway/Safety&Traffic Operations--47.3%--$146,537,117 125 Winooski Circulator Improvements Safety study currently underway $ 700,000 Roadway System 2 $ 700,000 Management , 5 Burlington Colchester Ave/East Ave Intersection Improvements Realign East Ave to the west approach and lengthen the right $ t i II 000 Roadway System 3 $ 1,360,000 turn lane Management 6 Burlington Colchester Ave/Prospect St Intersection Improvements Align Southand North Prospect St approaches $ 980,000 Roadway System 3 $ 2,340,000 Management 126 Winooski Main St(US 7)-W Allen St to City Line Improvements Corridor study starting in 2012. Anticipate intersection $ 500,000 Roadway System 3 $ 2,840,000 upgrades at Tigan,Spring,and Lafountain Management Reconstruct to create one signalized interseciton at Roadway System 7 Burlington Colchester Ave/Riverside Ave Intersection Improvements 9 $ 4,240,000 Riverside/Barrett $ 1,400,000 Management 56 Essex VT 15/Susie Wilson Rd intersection $ 200,000 Roadway System 10 $ 4,440,000 Management 98 South Burlington US 2/City Center Dr(at Central School)traffic signal US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation-signalized $ 418,709 Roadway System I 1 $ 4,858,709 intersection Management 67 Essex Junction Pearl St/Post Office Square/Five Comers Improvements Circ Alternatives Scoping Study $ 2,000,000 Roadway System 12 $ 6,858,709 Management 104 South Burlington US 2/Windjammer Intersection Improvements-add turning US 2 study mid to long term recommendation $ 520,780 Roadway System 13 $ 7,379,489 lanes Management 30 Colchester VT 15/Lime Kiln Rd intersection Improvements VT 15 Corridor Study-add left turn lane on Lime Kiln and $ 1,000,000 Roadway System 14 $ 8,379,489 right turn lane on EB VT 15 Management 101 South Burlington US 2/Kennedy Dr/Airport Rd Intersection Improvements US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation-roundabout $ 1,145,942 Roadway System 15 $ 9,525,431 or signalized Management 139 Regional ITS Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment Implement ITS Deployment Plan recommendations $ 11,400,000 Roadway System 16 $ 20,925,431 Management 99 South Burlington US 2/Dorset St Intersection capacity increase US 2 Corridor Study long term rec-roundabout or additional $ 1,740,950 Roadway System 17 $ 22,666,381 WB lane Management 103 South Burlington US 2/White St/Patchen Rd intersection improvements US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation- $ 5,641,558 Roadway System 19 $ 28,307,939 roundabouts or signalized Management 8 Burlington US 2-No SB East Ave left turns at jughandle US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation-no change $ 154,261 Roadway System 21 $ 28,462,201 until after Sheraton 3rd lane Management 120 Williston US 2/VT 2A intersection-traffic signal additional lanes US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation $ 1,046,774 Roadway System 24 $ 29,508,974 Managemetn Implement Adaptive Signal Control Upgrades to all signals in See Strategy Rle(Recommendations and Implementation Roadway Sytem 90 South Burlington the corridor between IDX Drive and I-189 Interchange Plan) $ 400,000 Management 25 $ 29,908,974 Two traffic signals at US7/RR/Middle Road? Currently in New Facility or 75 Milton US 7/Middle Rd/Railroad St Safety Improvements $ 3,800,000 Major Roadway 26 $ 33,708,974 Scoping _Upgrades New Facility or 23 Burlington Waterfront South roadway and rail improvements From Waterfront South Access Project $ 13,000,000 Major Roadway 28 $ 46,708,974 Upgrades New Facility or 94 South Burlington US 2-Dorset St to Hinesburg Rd US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation $ 7,000,000 Major Roadway 29 $ 53,708,974 Upgrades 83 Shelburne US 7/Harbor Rd Improvements Scoping study starting $ 500,000 Roadway System 30 $ 54,208,974 Management Dashodibes i2qi.atTICOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.2P/age 4 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project Cumulative Municipality Project Comments Cost MEP Category EGOS Rank Cost Signalized Intersection/Bike-Ped Improvements for Roadway System 29 Colchester US 2/7 at Blakely/Severance Rd Severance Corners Growth Center from Colchester TIF $ 6,000,000 Management 31 $ 60,208,974 Application 118 Williston US 2/North Williston Rd/Oak Hill Rd Intersection Scoping Study and US 2 study $ 960,000 Roadway System 33 $ 61,168,974 Management 55 Essex Susie Wilson Rd/Kellogg Rd intersection NB and EB left turn lanes or roundabout $ 1,500,000 Roadway System 34 $ 62,668,974 Management These improvements include Additional Crosswalks at 2 intersections(Strategy PI a);Pedestrian countdown timers Pedestrian Signal Improvements on Shelburne Road from Roadway System 88 South Burlington IDX Drive to Queen City Park Road. (Plb);Leading pedestrian Interval at 5 intersections(Plc); $ 468,000 Management 35 $ 63,136,974 Turn Restrictions/Regulatory Signs(PId);and Crosswalk and median refuge at Imperial Drive. 60 Essex VTIS/Sand Hill Road Signals TIP Illustrative $ 1,050,000 Roadway System 36 $ 64,186,974 Management 66 Essex Junction VT 15/West St Intersection Improvements Add 2nd NB lane $ 200,000 Roadway System 38 $ 64,386,974 Management 32 Colchester W Lakeshore Dr/Prim Rd Intersection Improvements Circ Alternatives Priority Project $ 350,000 Roadway System 39 $ 64,736,974 Management West Lakeshore Dr and Malletts Bay Ave Intersection Roadway System 33 Colchester Improvements $ 200,000 Management 44 $ 64,936,974 100 South Burlington US 2/Gregory Dr turning lanes and traffic signal US 2 study mid to long term recommendation $ 781,170 Roadway System 45 $ 65,718,144 Management 102 South Burlington US 2/Shunpike Rd Traffic Signal US 2 study mid to long term recommendation $ 937,404 ManagementRoadway System 45 $ 66,655,548 US 2-Talcott Rd to Old Stage Rd-shoulder widening for New Facility or 117 Williston cycling/capacity US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation $ 3,107,265 Major Roadway 49 $ 69,762,813 Upgrades 93 South Burlington Exit 14 US 2 EB improvements-additional lane btw SB on- US 2 study mid-term recommendation $ 2,499,744 Roadway System 50 $ 72,262,557 ramp and SB off ramp Management US 2-Industrial Ave to Commerce St minor widening(bike New Facility or 116 Williston lanes,sidewalks) US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation $ 4,154,038 Major Roadway 51 $ 76,416,595 Upgrades 64 Essex Junction Crescent Connector Road-Phase II Roadway to VT15 Circ Alternatives Priority Project $ 830,000 Roadway System 52 $ 77,246,595 Management 74 Milton US 7/Main St Intersection Improvements Traffic signal $ 500,000 Roadway System 54 $ 77,746,595 Management 119 Williston US 2/Brownell Rd-add NB Brownell right turn lane US 2 short term recommendation $ 41,662 Roadway System 56 $ 77,788,257 Management 76 Milton US 7/Rebecca Lander/Barnum St Intersection New traffic signal $ 1,240,000 Roadway System 57 $ 79,028,257 ImprovementsManagement New Facility or 13 Burlington North Ave.Improvements Implement complete streets treatment $ 20,000,000 Major Roadway 5g $ 99,028,257 Upgrades 36 Colchester I 89 Exit 17/US 2/US 7 Interchange Improvements Signal Study update planned for FY13 $ 312,000 Roadway System 64 $ 99,340,257 Alternative(US2/Jasper Mine Rd) Management Dast\e/dibesii9ai,uitTICOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.2gage 5 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project Cumulative lD Municipality Project Comments Cost MTP Category ECOS Rank Cost 57 Essex VT 15/Towers Rd/VT 128 intersection improvements $ 300,000 Roadway System 67 $ 99,640,257 Management 31 Colchester Blakely Rd/Laker Ln Intersection Improvements Circ Alternatives Priority Project-Colchester High School $ 130,000 Roadway System 68 $ 99,770,257 entrance Management New Facility or 16 Burlington Winooski Ave Improvements Implement complete streets treatment $ 11,000,000 Major Roadway 70 S 110,770,257 Upgrades 97 South Burlington Swift and Spear St intersection improvements Study completed $ 500,000 Roadway System 71 $ 111,270,257 Management Shelbume Road Reconstruction between IDX Drive and See long-term recommendations in the"Recommendations New Facility or 91 South Burlington $ 10,700,000 Major Roadway 72 $ 121,970,257 Queen City Park Road and Implementation Plan"section of the corridor study Upgrades I 89 Exit 17/US 2/US 7 Interchange Improvements Signal Roadway System 34 Colchester Alternative(Chimney Corners&US2/NB Ramps) Study update planned for FY13 $ 861,000 Management 73 $ 122,831 257 Includes 7 Intersections in the VT 127 Corridor(including Heineberg Dr,Prim Rd,West Lakeshore Dr,Malletts Bay Roadway System 47 Colchester VT 127 Intersection Improvements Ave and Blakely Rd to Lavigne Rd)(excludes intersections in $ 690,000 Management 77 $ 123,521,257 the corridor which are listed seperately:Blakely/Laker;W Lakeshore/Prim;W Lakeshore/Malletts Bay) 73 Milton US 7/Centre Dr Intersection Improvements Traffic signal proposed to accompany shopping center $ 500,000 Roadway System 85 $ 124,021,257 redevelopment. Paid for by developer. Management 18 Burlington Depot Street Waterfront access $ 1,200,000 Roadway System 88 $ 125,221,257 Management I 89 Exit 17/US 2/US 7 Interchange Improvements Signal New Facility or 35 Colchester Study update planned for FY13 $ 5,467,000 Major Roadway 96 S 130,688,257 Alternative(US7/Brentwood Dr&US7 to Chimney Cnrs) Upgrades VT 127 Roadway Improvements-East(TIP Illustrative Includes 2 roadway segments in the VT 127 Corridor New Facility or 45 Colchester Project) (Heineberg Dr&Prim Rd) $ 9,720,000 Major Roadway 98 $ 140,408,257 — —•— —._._._._.—._.�.�.�._.—•—•—•_._._._._._._. _._. .�.�.�._._ Upgrades •— Includes 4 roadway segments in the VT 127 Corridor(West •New Facility or 46 Colchester VT 127 Roadway Improvements-West Lakeshore Dr,Malletts Bay Ave and Blakely Rd to Lavigne $ 12,100,000 Major Roadway 101 $ 152,508,257 Rd) Upgrades 189 Exit 17/US 2/US 7 Interchange Improvements Signal New Facility or 38 Colchester Alternative(Widening of US2/7 South of Chimney Corners) Study update planned for FY13 $ 1,781,000 Major Roadway 105 $ 154,289,257 Upgrades US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation(circ New Facility or 115 Williston US 2-Commerce St to Talcott Rd widening $ 8,264,002 Major Roadway 110 $ 162,553,259 impacts?) Upgrades 70 Jericho VT 15/Dickinson St Modifications Complete Streets alignment&VT 15 Intersection upgrades $ 1,400,000 Roadway System 111 $ 163,953,259 Management I 89 Exit 17/US 2/US 7 Interchange Improvements Signal New Facility or 37 Colchester Alternative(US2 SB Ramps,Bridge Widening,&1JS2 to Study update planned for FY13 $ 15,576,000 Major Roadway 112 $ 179,529,259 Jasper Mine Rd) Upgrades South Burlington/ US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation-2 lanes New Facility or 110 Williston US 2-Kennedy Dr to Industrial Ave widening with TWLTL $ 9,090,402 Major Roadway 113 $ 188,619,661 Upgrades Dashnirbesii dicgiiTICOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.2 'age 6 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 � k§� i Project II � h'11im? , Cumulative Municipality Project Comments Cost MTP Category ECOS Rank �� 4 Cost New Facility or 14 Burlington Shelburne St Improvements Implement complete streets treatment $ 11,000,000 Major Roadway 115 $ 199,619,661 Upgrades 15 Burlington Battery St Improvements Implement complete streets treatment $ 3,000,000 Roadway System 119 $ 202,619,661 Management New Facility or 92 South Burlington Airport Dr Extension to Airport Parkway,South Burlington New roadway with 1 lane in each direction. $ 12,200,000 Major Roadway 125 $ 214,819,661 Upgrades US 7-Rathe Rd to Severance Corners Improvements New Road or 44 Colchester (widening to add lanes) Western Corridor Study Recommendation $ 3,000,000 Majorr Roadway 126 $ 217,819,661 Upgrades New Facility or 95 South Burlington I-89/VT 116 New Interchange(12B) Several studies completed to date. $ 33,400,000 Major Roadway 127 $ 251,219,661 Upgrades South Burlington/ I-89 widening to 3 lanes in each direction between Exit 13, New Facility or 109 Colchester South Burlington and Exit 16 in Colchester Increase 1-89 to 3 lanes in each direction $ 100,000,000 Major Roadway 128 $ 351,219,661 Upgrades Through Lakeside Property to form a 4 way intersection with New Facility or 49 Colchester Realignment of East Lakeshore Drive $ 2,400,000 Major Roadway 132 $ 353,619,661 Laker Lane Upgrades New Facility or 78 Milton. I-89/West Milton Rd New Interchange Previously included in 2030 MTP $ 29,300,000 Major Roadway 133 $ 382,919,661 Upgrades New Facility or 48 Colchester Heineberg-Blakely Bypass Alternate Route to West Lakeshore Drive $ 18,400,000 Major Roadway 134 $ 401,319,661 Upgrades New Facility or 51 Colchester Grcenway Drive North North-south connector between Hazelett Strip Casting and $ 1,600,000 Major Roadway 135 $ 402,919,661 West Lakeshore Drive Upgrades North-south connector between the Heineberg-Blakely New Facility or 50 Colchester Greenway Drive South Bypass to south of Hazelett Strip Casting $ 4,000,000 Major Roadway 136 $ 406,919,661. Upgrades New Facility or 63 Essex Allen Martin Parkway $ 3,663,000 Major Roadway 137 $ 410,582,661 Upgrades Das edditoesji2 c TICOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.36age 7 Table 4 Draft MTP Transportation Project List by MTP Project Category and ECOS Project Rank October 16,2012 Project Comments Cost' MTP Category ECOS Rank Cumulative ID Municipality Project Cost Transit-30.47%--$94,391,936 Expansion of the CCTA service area to Colchester,Jericho 135 Regional Transit and commuter service to Richmond and CCTA Development Plan $ 16,704,000 Transit 7 $ 16,704,000 WaterUnburyderhill;;increased transit service frequencies on trunk Recommendations(NEAR TERM-1 toBuildout 3 years) routes. CCTA Service expansion including increased frequencies, CCTA Transit Development Plan Buildout 136 Regional Transit BRT elements on US2 and VT15 corridors,and $ 27,112,000 Transit 8 $ 43,816,000 Recommendations(LONG TERM-Over 3 years) implementation of new service 138 Regional TDM Transportation Demand Management Programs Phase in 10%work trip reductions out to 2035 in targeted $ 5,700,000 Transit 18 $ 49,516,000 _ ___ _ _ _____- _ •—•—•_hiihe_mpl�oymentareas•—•_•—•—•_•—•_•—•—•— •— •_•—•_•—•—•----- --- 20 Burlington Streetcars Develop city network $ 80,000,000•Transit 83 $ 129,516,000 9 Burlington Colchester Ave Transit Shelters Corridor wide $ 220,000 Transit 93 $ 129,736,000 10 Burlington Colchester Ave Transit Signal Priority Corridor wide $ 70,000 Transit 117 $ 129,806,000 19 Burlington Funicular Waterfront access $ 2,500,000 Transit 120 $ 132,306,000 11 Burlington US 2-S Winooski to S Prospect Bus or HOV lanes US 2 Corridor Study long term recommendation $ 2,490,219 Transit 123 $ 134,796,219 Dasl VrlesjipCicaitqCOS target funding level for each category with estimated new funding.Note that implementation of projects is dynamic and may not strictly adhere to this sequencing.3,'age 8 CS 12/17/2012 Recommended City Contribution FYE 6/30/13 City of South Burlington Fiscal Year 2013 11111 Normal Cost(Current Service)plus Amortization Unfunded Accrued Liability over: Retirement Income Plan 10-Years 20-Years Highlights from 1, 2012 Public Safety Group: $328,314 $314,194 July Non-Public Safety Group: $282,790 $242,278 Actuarial Valuation Total: $611,104 $556,472 Peoples United Bank Ret Svcs 1 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 2 Projected City 16 Contribution FYE 6/30/14 Current Funding Policy Payroll growth as Expected Current Policy—as adopted by City Varying Rates of Investment Return Council 2-7-2011 . Normal Cost plus 2014 Projected 7.5%ROR 0%ROR -7.50/0 ROR Contribution Range: $587,793 $846,633 $1,105,293 . 20 year amortization of unfunded $643,603 $902,425 $1,160,888 Accrued Liability Projected Contribution=Normal Cost+10-20 year amortization UAL Normal Cost—cost for current service year - 70%-80% of Contribution Peoples United Bank Ret Svcs 3 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 4 1 12/17/2012 lii Funded Status Ai Funded Status — Summary . Assets >PVAB = Healthy Plan . Assets fund existing benefits . Assets above PVAB 7/1/11: $1,363,437 and future benefits . Assets above PVAB 7/1/12: $ 200,794 . Current Funded Ratio = 101% . Last year 107%vs.This Year 101% . Funded Ratio (Assets/PVAB) 7/1/11: 107% . Decrease due to ROR less than expected, . Funded Ratio (Assets/PVAB) 7/1/12: 101% offset some by slowed growth in payroll People's United Bank Ret Svcs 5 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 6 Funded Status - Details it Plan Experience: Assets Public Non-Public Safety Safety Total Present Value of . Assumed rate of return: 7.5% Accumulated . Actual asset rate of return: 1.7% Benefits(PVAB): 16,337,392 5,776,364 22,153,756 • Prior year asset rate of return: 20.1% Plan Assets: 16,322,208 6,032,342 22,354,550 3-Year Average: 11.67% Assets>PVAB: (55,184) 255,978 200,794 5-Year Average: 2.00% Funded Ratio: 100./0 104% 101% 8-Year Average: 6.01% People's United Bank Ret Svcs 7 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 8 2 12/17/2012 aiii Historical Rate of Return jit Composition of Assets Plan Year Rate of Return Assumed Rate 6/30/2012 1.7% 7.5% . Short Term Fund (Cash): 5.13% 6/30/2011 20.1% 7.5% 6/30/2010 13.2% 7.5% . Domestic Bond Funds: 33.59% 6/30/2009 (16.0%) 7.5% 6/30/2008 (9.0%) 7.5% • Domestic Stock Funds: 43.09% 6/30/2007 14.1% 7.5% . International Stock Funds: 14.63% 6/30/2006 9.9% 7.5% 6/30/2005 7.9% 7.5% . Real Estate Funds: 3.56% 6/30/2004 12.2% 7.5% 6/30/2003 2.8% 8.5% 100% 6/30/2002 (4.2%) 8.5% People's United Bank Ret Svcs 9 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 10 iii Plan Experience: Liabilities GASB 27: FYE 6-30-12 • Payroll growth less than anticipated GASB => Audited Financial Reporting 1.8% (NPS) 3.7% (PS) vs. 4.0% Annual Required • Total Active Participants decreased Contribution (ARC): $451,351 (112 to 105) Contribution: $600,000 . New Participants (3 PS only) Net Pension Asset: $6,955,383 • Retirements (2) NPO or NPA = cumulative difference • Total Terminated (8) between ARC and Contribution People's United Bank Ret Svcs 11 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 12 3 12/17/2012 GASB 68 : Change in Governmental GASB 68 : Change in Governmental Accounting Standards Accounting Standards . GASB => Audited Financial Reporting Changes include . GASB 68 Adopted June, 2012 ▪ ARC replaced by Pension Expense ▪ Pension Expense is determined under a single method,with . Effective for City FYB 7/1/2014 (FY 2015) no flexibility . Changes relate to accounting for the City's • Net Pension Obligation or Asset=Unfunded Accrued Liability, vs.GASB 27 cumulative difference between ARC and Pension Employer Contributions . Funding Policy not directly impacted, but may ▪ Accrued Liability measured under single method . Amortization of gains/losses and unfunded liabilities will be change over a shorter period than those prescribed under GASB 27 ▪ Asset gains/losses recognized over 5 years . Other experience g/I over average Future Service People's United Bank Ret Svcs 13 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 14 GASB 68 : Change in Governmental GASB 68 : Change in Governmental Accounting Standards11111 Accounting Standards . Plan changes(benefit increases or decreases)are recognized immediately in pension expense(no amortization) Implication for City of South Burlington . Discount rate—reflects expected return on assets only to the . Financial Reporting Impact point at which assets are projected to be sufficient to pay . Future benefit changes—accounting impact immediate benefits. Benefits payable beyond that time must be discounted . Discount Rate change? using a prescribed Municipal Bond Rate ▪ Funding Policy change? ▪ FY 2014—compare GASB 27 v.GASB 68 ▪ City Plan is much better positioned for changes given improved funded status from Municipal Bond proceeds People's United Bank Ret Svcs 15 People's United Bank Ret Svcs 16 4 City of South Burlington Retirement Income Plan Actuarial Valuation as of July 1, 2012 Final Report November 30, 2012 People's United Bank,Retirement Services • CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 We, Annie Brown Voldman, and S. Tracy Braun, are Members of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Qualification Standards of the American Academy of Actuaries to render the Actuarial opinion contained herein. We have made an actuarial valuation of this Plan as of July 1, 2012. The valuation has been prepared in accordance with generally accepted actuarial principles and practices and, to the best of our knowledge, fairly reflects the actuarial position of the Plan as of July 1, 2012. In preparing this valuation, we have relied upon our interpretation of Plan provisions and employee census data and Plan asset data provided by the Plan Sponsor and Trustee. In making this year's computations, we relied upon data provided to us by the City of South Burlington. There is no relationship between the City of South Burlington and Annie Brown Voldman or S. Tracy Braun that impairs our objectivity. This correspondence is an actuarial communication for which the undersigned (1) are the responsible actuaries; (2) are credentialed Members of the American Academy of Actuaries and; (3) meet the Qualification Standards for Prescribed S tements for Actuarial Opinion promulgated by the American Academy of Actuaries. ?„k , Annie 'rgrown Voldman, MAAA, MSPA Enrolled Actuary#11-3964 .Tracy Braun, MAAA Enrolled Actuary#11-2264 \Labe36i &o9a Date People's United Bank,Retirement Services TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACTUARIAL STATEMENT -- INTRODUCTION i-iv SUMMARY OF ACTUARIAL VALUATION 1 RECONCILIATION OF PARTICIPANT COUNTS 2 PLAN ASSET EXPERIENCE SINCE THE PRECEDING VALUATION DATE 3 DETERMINATION OF RECOMMENDED EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION 4 ACCRUED LIABILITY AMORTIZATION BASES 5 ACCUMULATED BENEFITS AND ASSETS UNDER FAS NO. 35 6 ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS AND COST METHOD 7 SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL PLAN PROVISIONS - PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES 8 SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL PLAN PROVISIONS - NON-PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES 9 GASB 27 DISCLOSURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2012 10-11 People's United Bank,Retirement Services INTRODUCTION Following is a report of the actuarial valuation of the City of South Burlington Retirement Income Plan (the "Plan") that has been made for purposes of determining a recommended level of contribution and reviewing the current funded status of the Plan. The valuation, performed as of the beginning of the current plan year, July 1, 2012, measures the liabilities of the Plan, compares them to existing Plan assets and determines what level of contribution, is recommended to properly fund the Plan. Employer Contribution Recommended for 2012-2013 Plan Year Following is this year's minimum recommended Employer contribution based on amortization of unfunded actuarial accrued liability over a 10-year and 20-year periods (see page 4): Minimum Recommended Contribution Based on 10-Year and 20-Year Amortization Bases 10-Year Amortization 20-Year Amortization $Amount $Amount % Payroll % Payroll Public Safety Group: $328,314 $314,194 9.1% 8.7% Non-Public Safety Group: 282,790 242,278 16.8% 14.4% $611,104 $556,472 11.5% 10.5% The above is the amount payable by the City, which is in addition to mandatory employee contributions required from Public Safety employees of 6.5% of compensation. Projected Recommended Contribution for 2013-2014 Fiscal Year We have projected assets and liabilities forward for estimating the total contribution for the next fiscal year to assist with the City's 2013-2014 FY budget process. Our projection is based on (1) actuarial assumptions in this year's valuation, including asset return of 7.5% and 4% payroll increase; and (2) contributions at the recommended level of$600,000. Due to current market volatility, however, we did two additional projections at varying projected rates of return (ROR) of 0% and a loss of 7.5%: Employer Contribution for 2013-2014 FY includinq 10-20 Yr Amortization FIL * 7.5% ROR 0%ROR -7.5% ROR Public Safety Group: $333,878 -348,226 $536,682-550,960 $739,485-753,695 Non-Public Safety Group: $254,095-295,377 $309,951 -351,285 $365,808-407,193 Total: $587,973 - 643,603 $846,633 -902,245 $1,105,293- 1,160,888 * Each range reflects amortization of Frozen Initial Liability over 10-20 year period (longer amortization increases the contribution) With actuarial gain/loss spread out over future working lifetime of each group, Plan experience is of greater impact on the Public Safety group due to the lower normal retirement age 50, as compared to age 65 of the Non-Public Safety group. This means that the range in contribution from varying investment return is greater under the PS Group. Funded Status Update Following is an update on the Plan's funded status, as of July 1, 2012, as compared to last year(bottom of page 1 and page 5): Funded Ratio Current Year—July 1, 2012 Public Safety Non-PS Total PV of Accumulated Plan Benefits: $16,337,392 $5,776,364 $22,153,756 Fair Market Value of Plan Assets: 16,322,208 6,032,342 22,354,550 (Shortfall)/Excess of Assets: (55,184) 255,978 200,794 Funded Ratio: 100% 104% 101% People's United Bank,Retirement Services INTRODUCTION (CONTINUED) Funded Ratio Prior Year—July 1, 2011 Public Safety Non-PS Total PV of Accumulated Plan Benefits: $15,287,025 $5,490,256 $20,777,281 Fair Market Value of Plan Assets: 16,224,502 5,916,216 22,140,718 (Shortage)/Excess of Assets: 937,477 425,960 1,363,437 Funded Ratio: 106% 108% 107% The liabilities stated here have been measured on an ongoing Plan basis, and as such are based on the Plan's current funding assumptions, mainly 7.5% investment return expected for plan assets for the long- term. If the Plan were terminated, additional calculations would be required to determine liabilities on a Plan termination basis. In the current low interest rate environment, unfunded liabilities on a Plan Termination basis would be considerably higher than have been stated here. Thus the funded ratios on a termination basis would be less than what is stated above. It is also important to understand that under the Plan's funding method, contributions fund both benefits accrued to date and those expected to accrue from future service. Theoretically, the objective is to fund future benefits before they accrue so that over the long term, costs will be consistent as a percentage of payroll. Thus a healthy funded ratio is one which exceeds 100%, thereby helping to keep the costs of future benefits level, as a percentage of payroll. Plan Experience—Assets—Impact on Funded Status and Contribution This year's rate of return, while positive, was considerably less than 7.5% assumed in the valuation calculations. This results in an actuarial loss, increasing the contribution and reducing the Plan's funded ratio as compared to last year. The City's contribution for the year of$600,000, however, combined with actuarial gains on the liability side (see next page) helped to offset asset experience less than anticipated. Historical approximate rates of annual asset return and assumed rates of return over the last eleven years follow: Plan Year Rate of Return Assumed Rate 6/30/12 1.7% 7.5% 6/30/11 20.1% 7.5% 6/30/10 13.2% 7.5% 6/30/09 (16.0%) 7.5% 6/30/08 (9.0%) 7.5% 6/30/07 14.1% 7.5% 6/30/06 9.9% 7.5% 6/30/05 7.9% 7.5% 6/30/04 12.2% 7.5% 6/30/03 2.8% 8.5% 6/30/02 (4.2%) 8.5% 3-Year Average: 11.67% 5-Year Average: 2.00% 9-Year Average: 6.01% (years since 7.5% change) Generally, in the case of publicly funded pension plans, an assumed rate of return of 7.5% would be considered reasonable. Publicly funded plans are often deemed to exist in perpetuity or at a minimum over a long period of time,'due to the ongoing existence of the public employer plan sponsor. Asset return has improved considerably in the last two years; we note that over the 8 years since the rate of return was reduced from 8.5% to 7.5%, average return has now decreased to 5.24%. Plan Trustees should continue to evaluate whether or not continued use of a 7.5% assumed rate of return is supported by its current investment portfolio. Its determination should be based primarily on the classes of assets in which the Plan is invested, the risk associated with same and the investment manager's long term objectives. People's United Bank,Retirement Services INTRODUCTION (CONTINUED) Plan Experience—Liabilities—Payroll Data changes—Impact on Contribution This year's liability measurements are less than were anticipated last year. Analysis of each group's payroll found that although covered payroll (e.g. those under the Plan) decreased, once employee turnover, retirements and transfers to VMERS (Non-PS group) were accounted for, payroll rose by approximately 1.8°A, for the Non-PS group and 3.7% for the PS group. This translates to actuarial gain since compensation is expected to increase by approximately 4% per year. Average 6/30/12 FYE compensation in the covered Non-PS group was $48,277 for the 35 active participants as compared with $57,944 last year for 40 active participants. The reduction reflects change in makeup of the group, in large part due to the close of the Plan for new Non-PS employees (e.g. VMERS). For the PS group, average compensation was$51,590 for 70 actively employed participants as compared to last year's $51,210 for 72 participants. Again, the make-up of the group has changed, due to retirements and employee turnover. Actuarial Assumptions and Funding Method The assumptions and funding method underlying the valuation are outlined on page 6. No changes have been made since the last valuation. Each year's experience will continue to be reviewed in comparison with experience anticipated under the assumptions, mainly in regards to investment experience, employee turnover/retirement and compensation growth, with changes being made as needed in consideration of such experience (over the long term), combined with the City's expectation for the future. Participant Data Participant data listings will be sent separately at the same time as individual participant benefit statements are prepared. GASB 27 Disclosures Pages 10-11 provide information required under GASB 27 for disclosure on the City's financial statements, as of June 30, 2012. The Annual Required Contribution (ARC) is based on 20-year amortization of the Plan's Frozen Initial Liability. Net Pension Obligation/Asset as of June 30, 2012 is an asset of$6,955,383. Change is Governmental Accounting Standards: GASB 68 In June of 2012, GASB issued Statements GASB 67 and 68 pertaining to reporting and disclosure requirements for public pension plans. GASB 68 applies to the City of South Burlington Retirement Income Plan, effectively replacing GASB 27 as it now applies to the City. GASB 68 significantly changes the amount that is expensed and the net pension liability that will be reported on the City's financial statements. The new rules include the following: • ARC replaced by Pension Expense • Pension Expense is determined under a single method, with no flexibility • Accrued Liability measured under single method • Amortization of gains/losses and unfunded liabilities will be over a shorter period than those prescribed under GASB 27 • Plan changes (e.g. benefit increases or decreases) are recognized immediately in pension expense (e.g. no amortization) • Discount rate — reflects expected return on assets only to the point at which assets are projected to be sufficient to pay benefits. Benefits payable beyond that time must be discounted using a prescribed Municipal Bond Rate People's United Bank,Retirement Services iii INTRODUCTION (CONTINUED) • Net Pension Obligation (now an asset for the City), which under GASB 27 is difference between cumulative ARCs and contributions, is replaced with unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability. Although the changes are complex and will be of impact to the City's financial statement reporting requirements, the City's funding of the Plan's unfunded accumulated benefits in 2011 with the Bond proceeds means the City is much better prepared to transition to the new rules. Although we have not yet measured the Plan's liabilities under GASB 68, we are expecting that the Plan will fare much better than many given the Plan's improvement in its funded ratio. The new requirements are effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2014; or FYB July 1, 2014 for the City. We have discussed the new requirements with City management and are recommending that the next valuation for FYB July 1, 2013 include a draft valuation under GASB 68, e.g. what GASB 68 would have required were it implemented as of July 1, 2013. This will provide the City with an understanding of the impact of GASB 68 and provide time to address issues that may arise as a result. Lastly it is important to note that GASB 68 does not in itself change the City's funding policy, but the City may decide to change its funding policy depending on the impact GASB 68 will have on its financial statements. People's United Bank,Retirement Services iv CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY1, 2012 SUMMARY OF ACTUARIAL VALUATION PUBLIC NON-PUBLIC SAFETY SAFETY TOTAL ACTUARIAL VALUATION DATE 7/1/2012 7/1/2012 MINIMUM RECOMMENDED EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION RANGE: MINIMUM BASED ON 10-YEAR AMORTIZATION OF UEAAL: 328,314 282,790 611,104 MINIMUM CONTRIBUTION AS PERCENTAGE PAYROLL: 9.1% 16.8% 11.5% MINIMUM BASED ON 20-YEAR AMORTIZATION OF UEAAL: 314,194 242,278 556,472 MINIMUM CONTRIBUTION AS PERCENTAGE PAYROLL: 8.7% 14.4% 10.5% PARTICIPANT DATA Retired Participants currently receiving benefits: 23 32 55 Terminated vested or inactive but still employed participants: 8 30 38 Participants currently employed: 70 35 105 Total participants: 101 97 198 Ineligible Employees: 0 11 11 Aggregate compensation of active participants: 3,611,303 1,687,929 5,299,232 Average compensation per active participant: 51,590 48,227 50,469 ASSET DATA Fair market value of Plan assets: 16,322,208 6,032,342 22,354,550 Actuarial asset value: 16,322,208 6,032,342 22,354,550 Approximate annual rate of return for the plan year(net of expenses): 1.66% 1.66% 1.66% SUMMARY OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR DISCLOSURE UNDER FAS 35 Present value of vested accumulated benefits: 16,225,333 5,734,172 21,959,505 Present value of non-vested accumulated benefits: 152,059 42,192 194,251 Present value of total accumulated benefits: 16,377,392 5,776,364 22,153,756 Fair market value of Plan assets: 16,322,208 6,032,342 22,354,550 Assets above/(below) total accumulated benefits: (55,184) 255,978 200,794 Funded ratio: 100% 104% 101% Page 1 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 RECONCILIATION OF PARTICIPANT COUNT PUBLIC NON-PUBLIC SAFETY SAFETY TOTAL A. RETIREES AND BENEFICIARIES CURRENTLY RECEIVING BENEFITS: 1. Retirees and beneficiaries at prior valuation date: 21 31 52 2. New retirees and beneficiaries: 2 3 5 3. Retirees Deceased: 0 2 2 4. Retirees and beneficiaries at current valuation date(1+2-3): 23 32 55 B. TERMINATED VESTED AND INACTIVE BUT STILL EMPLOYED PARTICIPANTS: 1. Terminated vested participants at prior valuation date: 6 33 39 2. New terminated vested participants: 2 4 6 3. Participants moved to inactive status but not yet terminated: 0 0 0 4. Participants retired,cashed out or moved back to active status: 0 7 7 5. Terminated vested participants at current valuation date (1+2+3-4): 8 30 38 C. ACTIVELY EMPLOYED PARTICIPANTS: 1. Active participants at prior valuation date: 72 40 112 2. New participants: 3 0 3 3. Participants retired: 2 0 2 4. Terminated without vested benefits: 1 2 3 5.Terminated with vested benefits due in future: 1 3 4 6.Terminated with vested benefits and cashed out: 1 0 1 7. Participants transferred out: 0 0 0 8. Active participants at current valuation date(1+2-3-4-5-6-7): 70 35 105 D. TOTAL PARTICIPANTS(A+B+C): 101 97 198 E. AVERAGE AGES: 1. Retirees and Beneficiaries: 61.34 72.75 2. Terminated or Inactive participants with vested benefits: 37.85 49.50 3. Active participants: 38.14 52.26 F. AVERAGE MONTHLY BENEFITS: 1. Retirees and Beneficiaries: 2,586.00 833.00 2. Terminated or Inactive participants with vested benefits: 547.00 628.00 3. Active participants:* 2,281.00 1,963.00 G. AVERAGE YEARS OF SERVICE FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS: 10.34 14.09 * Average of benefit expected at retirement age, based on current compensation and service at retirement Page 2 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 PLAN ASSET EXPERIENCE SINCE THE PRECEDING VALUATION DATE SUMMARY OF INCOME, EXPENSES AND RATE OF RETURN Asset fair market value at July 1,2011: 22,140,718 Additonal Bond Proceeds: 700 Employer contribution-paid April 4, 2012: 600,000 Mandatory Employee contributions: 282,608 Benefit Payments to Participants: (1,036,673) Investment income and expenese: Interest and Dividends, other income 431,349 Realized gains and(losses) 144,151 Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) in market value: (187,242) Expenses paid from Plan assets: (21,060) Investment earnings on market value basis, net of expenses: 367,198 Asset fair market value at June 30,2012: 22,354,550 Approximate annual rate of return for the plan year(net of expenses): 1.66% Additional Employer Contribution (Bond Proceeds)received after year-end: 0 Actuarial Asset Value at June 30,2012: 22,354,550 COMPOSITION OF ASSETS AT JUNE 30, 2012: Market Value Percent Total Employer Contribution Receivable: 0 Short Term Fund (Cash equivalent): 1,146,643 5.13% U.S. Stocks: 9,632,232 43.09% U.S. Bonds: 7,509,864 33.59% International Stocks: 3,269,681 14.63% Real Estate: 796,130 3.56% Total: 22,354,550 100.0% ALLOCATION OF ASSETS BETWEEN PUBLIC SAFETY AND NON-PUBLIC SAFETY GROUPS PUBLIC NON-PUBLIC SAFETY SAFETY TOTAL Asset Fair Market Value at July 1,2011: 16,224,502 5,916,216 22,140,718 Additiona Bond Proceeds: 578 122 700 Employer contributions: 245,628 354,372 600,000 Mandatory Employee contributions: 282,608 0 282,608 Benefit Payments to Participants: (700,529) (336,144) (1,036,673) Share of Investment Earnings (net of expenses): 269,421 97,776 367,197 Asset fair market value at June 30,2012: 16,322,209 6,032,341 22,354,550 Employer contribution receivable: 0 0 0 Employee contribution receivable: 0 0 0 Asset fair market value at June 30, 2012: 16,322,209 6,032,341 22,354,550 Page 3 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 DETERMINATION OF RECOMMENDED EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION PUBLIC NON-PUBLIC DETERMINATION OF NORMAL COST SAFETY SAFETY TOTAL 1. Actuarial Present Value of Future Benefits: (a) Inactive Participants 8,220,273 3,705,748 (b) Active Participants 11,975,289 4,518,371 (c) Total 20,195,562 8,224,119 2. Actuarial Asset Value: 16,322,208 6,032,342 3. Present Value of Future Employee Contributions: 1,651,784 0 4. Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability: 252,369 779,045 5. Present Value of Future Normal Cost(lc-2-3-4): 1,969,201 1,412,732 6. Present Value of Future Payroll: 25,412,056 15,299,527 7. Normal Cost Accrual Rate (5/6): 7.7491% 9.2338% 8. Current Payroll: 3,611,303 1,687,929 5,299,232 9. Normal Cost(7*8): 279,843 155,860 435,703 MINIMUM RECOMMENDED EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION RANGE Minimum based on 10-Year Amortization of Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability: 1. Normal Cost: 279,843 155,860 435,703 2. 10-Year Amortization of Unfunded Accrued Liability: 42,429 121,725 164,154 3. Interest to Expected Payment Date: 6,043 5,205 11,247 4. Minimum Recommended Contribution (1+2+3): 328,314 282,790 611,104 5. Minimum Contribution as Percentage Payroll: 9.1% 16.8% 11.5% Minimum based on 20-Year Amortization of Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability: 1. Normal Cost: 279,843 155,860 435,703 2. 20-Year Amortization of Unfunded Accrued Liability: 28,568 81,959 110,527 3. Interest to Expected Payment Date: 5,783 4,459 10,242 4. Minimum Recommended Contribution(1+2+3) 314,194 242,278 556,472 5. Minimum Contribution as Percentage Payroll: 8.7% 14.4% 10.5% Employer Contribution amounts are anticipated to be paid on or before March 31, 2013. Mandatory Employee Contributions are payable during the year, deducted from employee earnings and deposited regularly into the Trust. Page 4 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 ACCRUED LIABILITY AMORTIZATION BASES PUBLIC SAFETY GROUP Remaining Balance at Reason/Date Original Valuation Minimum Recommended Range Established Balance Date Period Amount Period Amount Fresh Start 1-Jul-11 313,079 252,369 10 42,429 20 28,568 NON-PUBLIC SAFETY GROUP Remaining Balance at Reason/Date Original Valuation Minimum Recommended Range Established Balance Date Period Amount Period Amount Fresh Start 1-Jul-11 898,193 779,045 10 121,725 20 81,959 REMAINING UNFUNDED ENTRY AGE ACCRUED LIABILITY PUBLIC NON-PUBLIC SAFETY SAFETY TOTAL Remaining Unfunded at July 1,2011: 313,079 898,193 Normal Cost at July 1,2011: 154,459 162,329 Interest Charge: 35,065 79,539 ER Contribution paid April 4, 2012 245,628 354,372 600,000 Interest Credits from April 4, 2012 to June 30, 2012: 4,606 6,644 Remaining Balance at July 1,2012: 252,369 779,045 Total Remaining Balance: 252,369 779,045 1,031,414 Page 5 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 ACCUMULATED BENEFITS AND ASSETS UNDER FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STANDARD NO. 35 A. ACTUARIAL PRESENT VALUE OF ACCUMULATED PLAN BENEFITS AS OF VALUATION DATE: PUBLIC NON-PUBLIC SAFETY SAFETY TOTAL Actuarial present value of vested accumulated Plan benefits Inactive Participants (Retirees, Term Vested): 8,220,273 3,705,748 11,926,021 Actively employed participants: 8,005,060 2,028,424 10,033,484 Total: 16,225,333 5,734,172 21,959,505 Actuarial present value of non-vested accumulated Plan benefits: 152,059 42,192 194,251 Actuarial present value of total accumulated Plan benefits: 16,377,392 5,776,364 22,153,756 Plan assets available to provide accumulated benefits: 16,322,209 6,032,341 22,354,550 ;Funded ratio: 99.7% 104.4% 100.9% B. CHANGE IN ACCUMULATED BENEFITS FROM PRIOR VALUATION DATE TO CURRENT VALUATION DATE Total present value of accumulated benefits at prior valuation date: 15,287,025 5,490,256 20,777,281 Benefits paid: (700,529) (336,144) (1,036,673) Passage of time (interest accrued): 1,120,257 399,164 1,519,421 Assumptions change: 0 0 0 Plan changes: 0 0 0 Benefits accumulated due to employee service, salary experience, retiree COLA adjustments, mortality/turnover experience: 670,639 223,088 893,727 Total present value of accumulated benefits at current valuation date: 16,377,392 5,776,364 22,153,756 C. ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS AND VALUATION DATE Current actuarial valuation date: July 1, 2012 Actuarial present value interest rate: 7.50% Mortality table used in determining actuarial present values: IRC Section 430 2009 Mortality Optional Combined Changes in actuarial assumptions from prior valuation date: None Plan changes not reflected at prior valuation date: None Page 6 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY1, 2012 ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS AND COST METHOD ACTUARIAL VALUATION DATE: July 1, 2012 VALUATION INTEREST(Pre and Post-retirement): 7.50% COMPENSATION ANNUAL RATE OF INCREASE: 4.00% VALUATION COMPENSATION: Public Safety: Base compensation plus overtime Compensation paid during the plan year not to exceed 25% of base pay preceding the Valuation Date Non-Public Safety.' Total compensation EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTION RATE(Public Safety Only): 6.50% ASSUMED RETIREMENT AGE: Normal Retirement Age MORTALITY(Pre and Post-retirement): IRC Section 430 2009 Optional Combined Tables EMPLOYEE TURNOVER: Scale T-3 from the Pension Actuary's Handbook IRC SECTION 401(a)(17) MAXIMUM COMPENSATION LIMIT: $245,000 IRC SECTION 415(b) MAXIMUM BENEFIT LIMIT: $200,000 ASSET VALUATION METHOD: Fair Market Value ACTUARIAL COST METHOD: Frozen Initial Liability Under the Frozen Initial Liability Cost Method the Employer contribution is equal to Normal Cost plus amortization of Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability. Normal Cost is computed in the aggregate for all participants as follows: 1. Normal Cost is equal to the Normal Cost Accrual Rate multiplied by current payroll. 2. Normal Cost Accrual Rate is equal to the Present Value of Future Normal Cost divided by the Present Value of Future Payroll. 3. Present Value of Future Normal Cost is equal to the Actuarial Present Value of Future Benefits less the sum of(1)the Actuarial Value of Plan assets, (2)the Actuarial Present Value of Future Employee Contributions and (3) the outstanding balances of any Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability Amortization Bases. 4. Actuarial Present Value of Future Benefits is the single sum amount required as of the valuation date to provide future benefits at assumed retirement age. Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability has been "fresh started"as of July 1, 2011 as the excess of Entry Age Accrued Liability over the Actuarial Value of Plan Assets. Unfunded Entry Age Accrued Liability is recommended to be amortized over a period of 10 years Page 7 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL PLAN PROVISIONS -PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES PLAN EFFECTIVE DATE: December 1, 1972 ELIGIBILITY: Immediate at Employment EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTION RATE: Mandatory 6.5%of Plan Compensation NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE: Retirement*on or After Age Prior to July 1, 2001 60 "or other termination of service July 1, 2001 55 July 1, 2005 54 July 1, 2007 53 July 1, 2009 52 July 1, 2010 51 July 1, 2011 50 BENEFIT FORMULA: 2.5% of average annual compensation per Year of Service with Police or Fire departments up to 25 years. POST-RETIREMENT COLA AND SOCIAL SECURITY OFFSET FOR PARTICIPANTS RETIRING ON OR AFTER NORMAL RETIREMENT DATE: Participants whom retire on or after Normal Years of Service at later PIA Offset Retirement Date will receive an annual increase of 6/30/02 or Retirement Percentage in their monthly benefit of 3% until Social 25 or Less 50% Security benefits commence. Upon 26 45% commencement of Social Security, the Plan 27 40% benefit is reduced by a fraction of the 28 35% Participant's Social Security Benefit based on 29 30% the Participants Years of Service at retirement. 30 or more 25% AVERAGE ANNUAL COMPENSATION Plan Compensation*is averaged over high three consecutive years of service. Compensation is annualized for years in *Effective July 1, 2009, Plan Compensation which the Participant completes less than 2,000 Hours of includes overtime up to 25% of Base Pay. Service, but at least 1,000 Hours of Service. NORMAL ANNUITY FORM: Life Annuity ACCRUED BENEFIT DEFINITION: Unit Credit Accrual, based on Years of Service completed at determination date EARLY RETIREMENT: Age 50,Accrued Benefit reduced 10% per year for benefit commencement prior to Normal Retirement Date DISABILITY: Actuarial Equivalent of Accrued Benefit PRE-RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFIT: Actuarial Equivalent of Accrued Benefit VESTING: 7-Year Graded-20% after 3 years, 20% per year thereafter, 100% after 7 years. Page 8 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN ACTUARIAL VALUATION AS OF JULY 1, 2012 SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL PLAN PROVISIONS-NON-PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES PLAN EFFECTIVE DATE: December 1, 1972 ELIGIBILITY: Eligible Employees-36 months of service, entry on July 1st of plan year in which service requirement met ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES: Non-Public Safety Employees who meet age and service requirements except the following classes of employeee: (1) Employees who are members of the Water Pollution Control Employees Association (WPC)who are hired on or after 1/1/11; and (2) Employees who are not members of either the WPC or the South Burlington City Hall &Public Works Employees'Association (SBCH&PW) unless such employee was a Participant in the Plan on 6/30/10. NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE: Attainment of Age 65 BENEFIT FORMULA: 1.75% of Average Compensation times Years of Service completed with City Departments other than Police or Fire(Non-Public Safety Departments) AVERAGE COMPENSATION Plan Compensation is averaged over high three consecutive years that produce highest average. Compensation is annualized for years in which the Participant completes less than 2,000 Hours of Service, but at least 1,000 Hours of Service. PLAN COMPENSATION SBCH&PW Members-effective 7/1/09,total compensation WPC Members-effective 7/1/07 total compensation, including scheduled and unscheduled overtime, on-call pager pay. For all other Non-Public Safety employees- Base pay NORMAL ANNUITY FORM: Life Annuity ACCRUED BENEFIT DEFINITION: Unit Credit Accrual, based on Years of Service completed at determination date EARLY RETIREMENT: Age 55,Accrued Benefit reduced by 1/15 per year for benefit commencement prior to 65 DISABILITY: Actuarial Equivalent of Accrued Benefit PRE-RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFIT: Actuarial Equivalent of Accrued Benefit VESTING: 7-Year Graded-20%after 3 years, 20% per year thereafter, 100%after 7 years. Page 9 People's United Bank, Retirement Services 11/30/2012 CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN GASB 27 DISCLOSURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30,2012 Components of Annual Required Contribution (ARC): Normal Cost 316,788 Amortization of Accrued Liability: 110,527 Interest Cost: 24,036 Annual Required Contribution: 451,351 Adjustment to ARC Net Pension Obligation at beginning of year: (7,134,386) Level Dollar Amortization Factor: 8.269543 Adjustment to ARC: 862,730 Annual Pension Cost(APC): Annual Required Contribution(ARC): 451,351 Interest on net beginning Net Pension Obligation(NPO): (535,079) Adjustment to ARC: 862,730 Annual Pension Cost(APC): 779,003 Change in NPO During the Fiscal Year NPO at beginning of fiscal year: (7,134,386) Interest on NPO: (535,079) Annual Required Contribution(ARC)for the fiscal year: 451,351 Adjustment to the ARC: 862,730 Employer Contribution made during the fiscal year: 600,000 NPO (assets)at end of fiscal year: (6,955,383) Net change in NPO: 179,003 Funded Status at end of Fiscal Year: Present Value of Accumulated Plan Benefits at end of year: 22,153,756 Plan assets at end of year: 22,354,550 Assets above/(below)Accumulated Plan Benefits at end of year: 200,794 Percentage of Accumulated Plan Benefits Funded: 101% 10 Year Benefit Projections: 6/30/13 1,374,900 6/30/18 1,842,600 6/30/14 1,413,800 6/30/19 2,001,700 6/30/15 1,467,900 6/30/20 2,164,100 6/30/16 1,581,000 6/30/21 2,232,000 6/30/17 1,754,400 6/30/22 2,386,200 Actuarial Cost Method used to determine ARC: Frozen Initial Liability Amortization Method and Period of Amortization: Level dollar over 20 Years Actuarial Assumptions: See page 7 of July 1,2011 Actuarial Report Plan Description: See pages 8-9 of July 1,2011 Actuarial Report Employer Funding Policy: Payment of Normal Cost plus amortization of Actuarial Accrued Liability over 20 years Page 10 11/30/2012 People's United Bank,Retirement Services CITY OF SOUTH BURLINGTON RETIREMENT INCOME PLAN GASB 27 DISCLOSURES FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30,2012 HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF DEVELOPMENT OF FISCAL YEAR END NET PENSION OBLIGATION(NPO) Interest Annual ARC Annual FY Opening Charge on Required Adjust Pension Change in Ending Fiscal Discount NPO NPO Contribution Amor ARC Cost Employer NPO NPO Year FYB Rate Balance Balance (ARC) Factor Adjustment (APC) Contribution Liability Balance FYE 1 8.5% 0 0 121,519 10.74684 0 121,519 121,537 0 0 30-Jun-92 2 8.5% 0 0 139,849 10.74684 0 139,849 128,004 11,845 11,845 30-Jun-93 3 8.5% 11,845 1,007 152,575 11.95137 (991) 152,591 115,401 37,190 49,035 30-Jun-94 4 8.5% 49,035 4,168 175,365 11.92929 (4,110) 175,423 154,061 21,362 70,396 30-Jun-95 5 8.5% 70,396 5,984 180,047 11.71577 (6,009) 180,022 170,402 9,620 80,016 30-Jun-96 6 8.5% 80,016 6,801 131,375 11.41104 (7,012) 131,164 145,604 (14,440) 65,576 30-Jun-97 1 01-Jul-97 8.5% 65,576 5,574 70,439 11.44237 (5,731) 70,282 70,439 (157) 65,419 30-Jun-98 2 01-Jul-98 8.5% 65,419 5,561 101,365 11.35489 (5,761) 101,164 26,168 74,996 140,416 30-Jun-99 3 01-Jul-99 8.5% 140,416 11,935 51,282 11.15892 (12,583) 50,634 10,000 40,634 181,049 30-Jun-00 4 01-Jul-00 8.5% 181,049 15,389 67,425 11.27816 (16,053) 66,761 0 66,761 247,810 30-Jun-01 5 01-Jul-01 8.5% 247,810 21,064 445,960 7.97235 (31,084) 435,940 412,834 23,106 270,916 30-Jun-02 6 01-Jul-02 8.5% 270,916 23,028 584,858 7.01744 (38,606) 569,280 408,164 161,116 432,032 30-Jun-03 7 01-Jul-03 7.5% 432,032 32,402 592,140 9.63650 (44,833) 579,710 430,763 148,947 580,979 30-Jun-04 8 01-Jul-04 7.5% 580,979 43,573 709,457 9.18851 (63,229) 689,802 597,141 92,661 673,639 30-Jun-05 9 01-Jul-05 7.5% 673,639 50,523 919,435 8.50623 (79,194) 890,764 893,000 (2,236) 671,403 30-Jun-06 10 01-Jul-06 7.5% 671,403 50,355 883,866 9.03885 (74,280) 859,941 919,435 (59,494) 611,910 30-Jun-07 11 01-Jul-07 7.5% 611,910 45,893 877,490 8.83839 (69,233) 854,150 972,231 (118,081) 493,829 30-Jun-08 12 01-Jul-08 7.5% 493,829 37,037 1,178,615 8.00175 (61,715) 1,153,937 1,036,128 117,809 611,638 30-Jun-09 13 01-Jul-09 7.5% 611,638 45,873 1,642,172 8.02330 (76,233) 1,611,812 1,307,612 304,200 915,838 30-Jun-10 14 01-Jul-10 7.5% 915,838 68,688 1,594,410 7.78264 (117,677) 1,545,421 9,595,645 (8,050,224) (7,134,386) 30-Jun-11 15 01-Jul-11 7.5% (7,134,386) (535,079) 451,351 8.26954 862,730 779,003 600,000 179,003 (6,955,383) 30-Jun-12 Page 11 11/30/2012 People's United Bank,Retirement Services ki4 south t PLANNING & ZONING MEMORANDUM TO: Sandy Miller, City Manager FROM: Cathyann LaRose, City Planner SUBJECT: Interim Zoning: Open Space Working Group DATE: December 17, 2012 City Council Meeting Background: In October, the City Council asked the South Burlington Natural Resources Committee (NRC) to serve as one of the four Committees working towards changes during the Interim Zoning period. As staff liaison to the NRC, I have continued as primary staff liaison to the new working group. The Group began discussions on October 4th with a dialogue of the goals of their work. They agreed to meet two times per month. and seek additional input from other committees, notably the South Burlington Planning Commission, Recreation and Leisure Arts Committee, and South Burlington Land Trust. Proposed Work Plan: The group discussed several potential products, ranging from updates to the Open Space Strategy (produced in 2002), updates to the Comprehensive Plan, and a policy/guidance document for City land acquisition. While they felt that each product was with merit, members ultimately felt that the most urgent need, over the next several months, included updates to the Land Development Regulations (LDRs). The proposed scope of the updates includes: 1. Evaluation of natural resources outside of the Southeast Quadrant (SEQ), including wildlife corridors. surface water corridors, and identification and protection of discreet unique natural resources; 2. Re-assessment and possible additions to scenic view corridors: 3. Development of open space requirements within PUDs; and, 575 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403 tel 802.846.4106 fax 802.846.4101 www.sburl.com 4. Completion of project to develop site-specific natural resource conservation standards. Following the completion of these projects, the group recommends work on the other products discussed and listed above. Budget and Consultant: The group unanimously recommends that Staff communicate with existing consultants to determine whether they may add these tasks as revisions to their contracts; where necessary. additional personnel may need to be added to the consultant team. Doing so would save significant staff resources and allow the work of the Open Space Committee to "catch up" to the timing of the other three IZ committees. Cost estimates will be developed following communication with potential consultants. In anticipation of this project, however, staff presented a possible budget of $30,000 for the completion of studies related to Open Space IZ work. Group Members The group respectfully recommends that the following members be officially appointed to the Interim Zoning Open Space Committee: • Peter Jones, Chair of NRC • Patrick Clemins, NRC Member • Russell Agne, NRC Member • Betty Milizia, NRC Member • Laurel Williams, NRC Member • Mark Dupois, NRC Member • Jonathan Miller, NRC Member • Barbara Benton, Planning Commission Member (approved by the Commission 11/13) • South Burlington Land Trust Representative- Patricia Allen • South Burlington Recreation and Leisure Arts Committee Rep- Jennifer Kochman (discussed at the RLAC meeting 11/13) • Helen Riehle, City Councilor The group respectfully asks the Steering Committee for feedback and guidance on the proposed work products, consulting options, and committee roster. 2 i . DRAFT RESOLUTION RESOLUTION NO: RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR LISA P. JACKSON IN SUPPORT OF REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS POLLUTION UNDER THE CLEAN AIR ACT WHEREAS, the decade from 2000 to 2010 was the warmest on records, and 2005 and 2010 tied for the hottest years on record2; and WHEREAS, the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is approximately 392 parts per million3(ppm); and WHEREAS, one of the world's leading climate scientists, Dr. James Hansen, stated in 2008: "If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm4; and WHEREAS,the Environmental Protection Agency determined that current and future greenhouse gas concentrations endanger public healthy, and according to the Global Humanitarian Forum climate change is already responsible every year for some 300,000 deaths, 325 million people seriously affected, and economic losses worldwide of U.S. $125 billions; and WHEREAS, extreme weather events, most notably heat waves and precipitation extremes, are striking with increased frequency7, with deadly consequences for people and wildlife; in the United States in 2011 alone, a record 14 weather and climate disasters occurred, including droughts, heat waves, and floods, that cost at least$US 1 billion each in damages and loss of human lives8; and WHEREAS, climate change is affecting food security by negatively impacting the growth and yields of important crops9, and droughts, floods and changes in snowpack are altering water supplies10; and WHEREAS, scientists have concluded that by 2100 as many as one in 10 species may be on the verge of extinction due to climate change11; and WHEREAS, the world's land-based ice is rapidly melting, threatening water supplies in many regions and raising sea levels12, and Arctic summer sea ice extent has decreased to about half what it was several decades ago13, with an accompanying drastic reduction in sea-ice thickness and volumet4, which is severely jeopardizing ice-dependent animals15; and WHEREAS, sea level is rising faster along the U.S. East Coast than it has for at least 2,000 years16, is accelerating in pace17, and could rise by one to two meters in this century, threatening millions of Americans with severe flooding18; and WHEREAS, for four decades, the Clean Air Act has protected the air we breathe through a proven, comprehensive, successful system of pollution control that saves lives and creates economic benefits exceeding its costs by many times19; and WHEREAS, with the Clean Air Act, air quality in this country has improved significantly since 1970, despite major growth both in our economy and industrial production; and WHEREAS, between 1970 and 1990, the six main pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act—particulate matter and ground-level ozone (both of which contribute to smog and asthma), carbon monoxide, lead, sulfur and nitrogen oxides (the pollutants that cause acid rain)—were reduced by between 47 percent and 93 percent, and airborne lead was virtually eliminated; and WHEREAS, the Clean Air Act has produced economic benefits valued at$2 trillion or 30 times the cost of regulation; and WHEREAS, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA (2007)that greenhouse gases are "air pollutants"as defined by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate them; and WHEREAS, The city of prides itself on being a leader in the fight against climate change and for clean air[insert steps your city has already taken such as developing a climate action plan, signing the Mayors'Climate Protection Agreement, reducing carbon emissions by X percent, etc.! NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that climate change is not an abstract problem for the future or one that will only affect far-distant places but rather climate change is happening now, we are causing it, and the longer we wait to act, the more we lose and the more difficult the problem will be to solve; and we,the City Council, on behalf of the residents of ,do hereby urge the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson, and President Barack Obama to move swiftly to fully employ and enforce the Clean Air Act to do our part to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk shall forward a copy of this resolution to Lisa P. Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency and President Barack Obama. ENDNOTES 1 Press Release, National Aeronautic Space Association, NASA Research Finds Last Decade was Warmest on Record, 2009 One of the Warmest Years(Jan. 21,2010),www.nasa.gov/home/honews/2010/jan/HQ_10- 017_Warmest_temps.html. 2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA:2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110112_globalstats.html(last visited on 3/30/12). 3 Co2now.org, What the World Needs to Watch, http:i/co2now.org(last visited on 3/30/12); Earth System Research Laboratory of NOAA, Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, vwuw.esri.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/(last visited on 4/2/12). 'J. Hansen et al., Target atmospheric CO2. Where should humanity aim?, Open Atmos. Sci. 2, 217(2008), http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha00410c.html. 5 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a)of the Clean Air Act, 74 Federal Register 66496-66546(Dec. 15, 2009)(to be codified at 40 C.F.R. ch. 1), http://epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment.html(last visited 4/2/12). 6 Global Humanitarian Forum, The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis(2009), www.eird.org/publicaciones/humanimpactreport.pdf, p.1 of pdf. ' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation(SREX)(2012), http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/; U.S. Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the US: Global Climate Change(2009), http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/full-report/global-climate-change; D.Coumou and S. Rahmstorf,A decade of weather extremes, Nature Climate Change(2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1452. 8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,Extreme Weather 2011, http://www.noaa.gov/extreme2011/(last visited April 2,2012); Press Release,World Meteorological Organization, 2011:world's 10h warmest year, warmest year with La Nina on record, second-lowest Arctic sea ice extent(2012), www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html. 9 D.B. LobelI et al., Climate Trends and Global Crop Production Since 1980, Science 333,616 (July 29,2011), www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/05/04/science.1204531.abstract; U.S.Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the US:Agriculture(2009),www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific- assessments/us-impacts/full-report/climate-change-impacts-by-sector/agriculture. 10 U.S. Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the US: Water Resources(2009), www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/full-report/climate-change-impacts-by- sector/water-resources. 11 I.M.D. Maclean and R.J.Wilson, Recent ecological responses to climate change support predictions of high extinction risk, PNAS 108, 12337(2011), http://www.pnas.org/contentJ108/30/12337, summary at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110711151457.htm. 12 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), Climate Change 2007:Synthesis Report(2007), http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm, pp. 30, 49 of pdf. 13 J. Stroeve et al.,Arctic Sea Ice Extent Plummets in 2007, EOS 89, 2(January 8,2008), http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008ECO20001.shtml, p. 13 of pdf. 14 Polar Science Center,Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly, version 2, http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/(last visited April 3,2012); R. Kwok and D.A. Rothrock, Decline in Arctic sea ice thickness from submarine and/CESat records: 1958-2008, Geophysical Research Letters 36, L15501 (2009), http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009GL039035.shtml. 15 Center for Biological Diversity and Care for the Wild International, Extinction:It's Not Just for Polar Bears(2010), http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_institute/the_arctic_meltdown/arctic_extinction_report.html. 16 A.C. Kemp et al., Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia, PNAS 108, 11017(2011), http://www.pnas.org/content1108/27/11017, summary at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110620183242.htm. 17 M.A. Merrifield et al.,An Anomalous Recent Acceleration of Global Sea Level Rise, Journal of Climate 22,5772 (2008), http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2009JCLI2985.1. 18 B.H.Strauss, Tidally adjusted estimates of topographic vulnerability to sea level rise and flooding for the contiguous United States, Environmental Research Letters 7(2012), http://iopscience.lop.org/1748-9326/7/1/014033, summary at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314111738.htm. t9 For Clean Air Act facts, see Center for Biological Diversity, The Clean Air Act Works(2011), http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate Jlaw institute/global warming litigation/clean air act/pdfs/CleanA irActWorks_032011.pdf; and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990(1997), http://www.epa.gov/air/sect812/; and U.S Environmental Protection Agency, The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1990 to 2010(1999), http.//www.epa.gov/air/sect812/. Encouraging Good Government in South Burlington Citizens of South Burlington, We are a group of long time South Burlington residents and business people who are concerned with the direction the City Council is taking us. Municipal government is primarily about identifying public services that individual residents cannot provide for themselves,and funding the payments for those services. South Burlington provides first rate emergency response and public safety services. Municipal utilities and roads are provided at a reasonable cost.The community supports exceptional recreation and library services. The City Council should provide citizens the regular opportunity to express their dreams,hopes and desires for the city. The Council must listen closely to all those that express legitimate needs and concerns and focus on those which address the broadest spectrum of issues. Many of the policies and decisions reached by the current Council do not seem to reflect the will or opinions of the broad majority of citizens and businesses in South Burlington. In the words of a former City Councilor,"All discussions of policy should start with a question,proceed through a discussion,and result in a solution that takes into account the input from a broad range of ideas." The current Council begins most discussions with a statement of their desired result and neglects or ignores the concerns of the broadest group of citizens in arriving at the answer to the question the Council never bothered to ask.The narrow focus on specific agendas consumes so much time and resources that the Council does not have the ability to consider the broader policies and issues facing South Burlington at this time. The current City Council refuses to focus on the broad city-wide impacts of their current policies and agendas. They make decisions without adequate study and with limited understanding of the long term effects and unintended consequences. Current policies adopted by the Council will likely limit both commercial and residential growth in the City to the point where there is a negative impact on the Grand List. That means each present taxpayer will pay higher taxes going forward. The Council's policies and decisions are increasing expenses without finding offsetting revenue. Their recent actions have resulted in multiple lawsuits and appeals of the Council's decisions to Environmental Court. The additional costs presently being incurred and the future impact of lost tax revenue will result in either higher taxes or reductions in the services South Burlington residents expect and desire. That is not hyperbole or speculation;it is a fact,and it will make South Burlington a much less desirable place to either reside or conduct business. Unfortunately the quantification of the fiscal consequences to both municipal government and to the city's overall economic health and sustainability has been deferred in favor of a continued focus on the studies that should have been done before the adoption of interim zoning. Too many decisions have been made over the past eighteen months without an understanding or consideration of the concerns and expectations of the public at large. Outside of their regular meetings this City Council has begun consistently holding meetings during the day or early evening hours when most residents are at work or taking care of their families. Many meetings are not televised or even recorded. Decisions are regularly made in executive sessions or deliberative sessions without proper public oversight or coverage by the press. Residents are entitled—and should demand-to see and hear the process through which these decisions are made. The Council needs fewer executive sessions and more open sessions. They need to engage the public,and importantly,listen and take in to consideration what is being said regardless of whether it contradicts their own personal opinions. Our elected officials need to be accountable;they need to be reasonable;they need to be responsible;they need to be transparent in their decision making;and they need to act in the best interests and for the greater good of the city of South Burlington. We as a group believe in a rational and reasonable approach to city government. We are not espousing one political persuasion or another. This is not a party issue,nor is it a liberal or conservative one. We are simply requesting that our City Council be accountable to the entire community and focus on the key elements of municipal government. We ask that they be fully informed before making decisions,particularly when they encompass polarizing issues such as changes in land usage rights and economic development concerns that have employment level ramifications. We believe that moderation is the best approach to a sustainable South Burlington,and it is why our community has become the attractive and wonderful place it is today. Because we understand that we are all busy in our own lives and may not have the ability to either attend City Council meetings or follow all of the happenings at City Hall,our goal is to inform the citizenry and taxpayers of South Burlington about the proceedings of the City Government. If you believe a more moderate,more inclusive,more transparent approach is what is needed on our City Council we would encourage you to let us know. Feel free to email us at infocu`soutlthurlingtongoodgov.org to let us know your concerns or to request to receive occasional updates and information in regards to these issues. We appreciate your commitment to keeping South Burlington a wonderful place to live,work and play. Marcel Beaudin,Resident&former Chair of the Planning Commission Jim Knapp,Resident&former City Councilor Lexi Buckel,Resident John Jewett,Resident Tony Cairns,Business Owner Susan Jewett,Resident Marianne Callahan,Resident Evan Langfeldt,Businessperson Chris Carrigan,Resident Joe Larkin,Resident Tom Chastenay,Resident Jamie Polli,Resident Bruce Chattman,Resident&former Superintendent of Schools John thick,Business Owner Greg Dirmaier,Businessperson Jan Rozendaal,Resident Gary Farrell,Resident Betsy Bishop,President of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce Jeff Goldberg,Resident Jack Russell,Resident&Business Owner Betty Goldberg,Resident Mike Simoneau,Resident&Business Owner Karla Henning,Resident Gary Von Stange,Businessperson Faruk Hurer,Resident John Wilking,Resident&Business Owner Chuck Bolton,Businessperson Brad Worthen,Businessperson John Henning,Resident Eileen O'Rourke,Resident Lisa Ventriss,Resident Paid for by the above concerned conununity members DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 DISCUSSION �y ;, DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — NN ,y, 11 / 14/2012 11/14/2012 For a healthy, inclusive, and prosperous community This plan is the combined results of reviewing 60 previous planning documents related to Chittenden County and merging the Regional Plan, Metropolitan Transportation Plan, and Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy in one shared planning process. 0 DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 10/18/2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 CCRPC AND GBIC RESOLUTIONS 4 CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION 5 1.0 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 ECOS PROCESS SUMMARY 6 1.2 VISION 8 1.3 MISSION 8 1.4 PRINCIPLES 8 1.5 BROAD GOALS 9 1.6 CHITTENDEN COUNTY OVERVIEW 9 CHAPTER 2 - REGIONAL ANALYSIS 10 2.0 INTRODUCTION 10 2.1 DEMOGRAPHICS 11 INTRODUCTION: 11 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS 20 INTRODUCTION: 20 2.2.1 ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 21 2.2.2 SCENIC, RECREATIONAL, AND HISTORIC RESOURCES 24 2.2.3 CLIMATE CHANGE 26 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY 29 INTRODUCTION: 29 2.3.1 EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS 31 2.3.2 HEALTH 33 2.3.3 PUBLIC SAFETY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE& HAZARD MITIGATION 36 2.3.4 SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS 39 2.3.5 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 41 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE 43 INTRODUCTION: 43 2.4.1 ECONOMY 44 2.4.2 HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL SECURITY 48 2.4.3 WORKING LANDS &LAND BASED INDUSTRIES 50 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT 53 INTRODUCTION: 53 2.5.1 LAND USE 54 liable of Contents 1 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan- 11/14/2012 2.5.2 HOUSING 56 2.5.3 TRANSPORTATION 60 2.5.4 INFRASTRUCTURE & FACILITIES 64 2.5.5 ENERGY 67 2.6 THE POSITIVES OF NOW AND CONCERNS FOR THE FUTURE 70 CHAPTER 3— ECOS PLAN PRIORITIES & IMPLEMENTATION 75 3.0 INTRODUCTION 75 3.1 SCENARIO PLANNING REVIEW—CHOICES FOR THE FUTURE 75 3.2 HIGH PRIORITY STRATEGIES, ACTIONS&PARTNERS 78 3.2.1 IMPROVE AND STRENGTHEN THE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS OF OUR REGION TO INCREASE OPPORTUNITIES FOR VERMONT EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES 80 3.3 PLAN ACCOUNTABILITY AND MONITORING 98 ANNUAL INDICATORS AND PROGRESS REPORT 98 CHAPTER 4— USING THE ECOS PLAN 99 4.1 ECOS REGIONAL PLAN POLICIES 99 4.1.1 ECOS PLAN POLICIES 99 4.1.2 ACT 250, SECTION 248&SUBSTANTIAL REGIONAL IMPACT 101 4.1.3 STATEMENT OF COMPATIBILITY AND CONSISTENCY 103 4.2 COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY(CEDS) 103 4.2.1 UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 103 4.2.2 CEDS PRIORITIES 111 4.2.3 CEDS PROJECTS 111 4.3 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN (MTP) 111 APPENDIX— DIGITAL ONLY? 112 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT REPORT(IF NEEDED) 112 CHITTENDEN COUNTY HISTORY 112 CROSSWALK—SHOWING HOW/WHERE RP, MTP, CEDS REQUIREMENTS ARE MET 112 ECOS PROJECT LIST(ALSO SERVING AS GBIC's COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY(CEDS) PROJECT LIST) 112 CCRPC'S METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLAN (MTP) PROJECTS AND SUPPLEMENTAL MTP DOCUMENTS 112 ECOS CRITERIA 112 FINANCIAL REPORT FOR MTP INVESTMENTS 112 2 acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank EGOS Partners, CCRPC & GBIC Boards... List partners and board members. Thank staff 4 acknowledgements NN, ,.USSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 CCRPC AND GBIC RESOLUTIONS 4 CCRPC and GBIC Resolutions DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11 / 14/2012 = additional writing or data needed CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION 1 .0 Introduction Environment. Community. Opportunity. Sustainability. • The ECOS Project is both a process and a plan for managing sustainable growth in Chittenden County. • The EGOS Project is for anyone and everyone interested in how we live, work and play together in Chittenden County. • The EGOS Project is a unique opportunity for municipalities, organizations, businesses and residents to work together to preserve and improve our quality of life. The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) is charged by the State of Vermont with preparing a regional plan at least every eight years to protect the County's resources and to guide its development. The CCRPC is also charged with establishing a Metropolitan Transportation Plan every five years to address the long term transportation needs of Chittenden County. The Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation (GBIC) is charged with establishing a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) every five years to establish economic development priorities for Chittenden County. ADD A FULL PARAGRAPH HERE DESCRIBING THESE THREE PLANS IN MORE DETAIL. The Federal government created the Partnership for Sustainable Communities (a partnership of HUD, EPA, and USDOT) and an opportunity to update all three regional planning documents with one process. This Plan is the Chittenden County Regional Plan, Metropolitan Transportation Plan and Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy. Community and regional planning enable people with different outlooks and awareness to learn about important and sometimes controversial matters, to agree on common objectives, and to collaborate on undertaking coordinated agendas of actions. Public planning should strive to 'Chapter 1 - introduction 5 ..USSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 engage people not only because our laws and democratic traditions require it, but also because public engagement makes planning better. Effective public planning promotes: • Greater understanding of key facts, • Deeper and more widespread appreciation of divergent views, • Increased consensus on important goals and objectives, and • Improved collaboration among stakeholders. Planning for an entire region is especially challenging. While we all agree that Chittenden County should be a "great place to live, work and play," there are myriad visions of exactly how such a place should look and which actions we should undertake to achieve this goal. The ECOS Plan is intended to articulate the current consensus for our County's future. 1 .1 ECOS Process Summary The Regional Planning process really began in 2008 with the public process to develop land use and transportation scenarios for the MTP. Engagement included multiple workshops and a survey with 835 respondents in 2010. While this occurred prior to the formal ECOS process it laid the groundwork for it. The ECOS grant allowed CCRPC and GBIC to significantly expand both the depth of analysis and public engagement in developing a unified Regional, Transportation, and Economic Plan for Chittenden County. Beginning in March 2011, 65 partner organizations and many others have gone through a five phase process to develop this Plan. All participants signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to participate in the process and review the work with their individual organizations that they were representing. See Public Process Report in Appendix x for more detail. The ECOS Planning process started with principles of transparency, priority setting, and accountability. There has been a focus on building on previous planning work and not starting from scratch. The entire effort can be divided into two parts. The first part reviewed in Chapter 2 looks at the big picture, community goals, understanding what is happening under each of those goals (analysis), how we measure progress on those goals (indicators), and identifying the critical needs. The second part in Chapter 3 looks at the choices we have to address these needs and recommends priority strategies and actions with a focus on implementation. There is a commitment to annually measuring the community indicators to see if we are achieving our goals and also measuring our collective performance in implementing the actions. This is similar to the Results-based Accountability ModelTM that is used by United Way and many other organizations. The specific process the ECOS Steering Committee and partners went through to develop this plan is summarized below. 1. Goals (found in Chapter 2) — based on the 60 existing planning documents. a. ECOS Workshop - # participants, 6 1.1 ECOS Process Summary I Chapter 1 - introduction DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 b. Public review from July 14 to September 30, 2011 including sub-committee reviews resulting in 123 comments from 65 groups/individuals. c. Vision, Principles, and Goals were approved by the ECOS Steering Committee on October 26, 2011. 2. Analysis (referenced in Chapter 2, specific reports are here: www.ecosproject.com/analysis) a. Technical experts were brought in to analyze topic areas including economy, housing, land use and transportation, energy, natural resources, public health, education, climate change b. Public review from November 15 to December 31, 2011 resulting 686 comments from 18 individuals/groups. At the same time the technical experts and sub- committees continued to review and improve the analysis reports. c. Analysis Reports were accepted by the ECOS Steering Committee on January 25, 2012. 3. Indicators (found in Chapter 2) a. The University of Vermont Center for Rural Studies assisted with creating a possible list of indicators. b. The draft Indicators were released for public review from February 1 to March 16. Over 400 comments were received. c. The Interim Indicator Report was accepted by the ECOS Steering Committee on April 25, 2012. d. CCRPC's Long Range Planning Committee and sub-committees reviewed and recommended revised Indicators between July and September, 2012. These revisions are reflected in Chapter 2 of this ECOS Plan. 4. Plan Priorities (found in Chapter 3) a. Public engagement activities managed by Burlington City Arts were conducted from June through August to gather more community input on needs and recommendations. 130 hours of public engagement took place in these efforts with over 600 people participating. b. CCRPC's Long Range Planning Committee and sub-committees and partners developed critical needs and recommended actions between July and October, 2012. The critical needs are listed at the end of Chapter 2. Over-arching strategies and actions are in Chapter 3. c. The Draft ECOS Plan was reviewed by the public between November 1 and December 31, 2012. Direct discussions were also held with each municipality's elected body. A total of XX comments were received from XX individuals/ organizations. 5. Plan Implementation a. The ECOS Steering Committee, CCRPC's Long Range Planning Committee and sub-committees and partners developed draft ECOS Criteria for prioritizing ECOS Grant projects between April 25 and July 25, 2012. b. A request for proposed ECOS Grant projects was released on August 1, 2012 with proposals submitted by September 15, 2012. c. The ECOS Grant projects were approved for $280,000 of funding by the ECOS Steering Committee on October 24, 2012. 1.1 ECOS Process SummarylChapter 1 - introduction 7 N, ,, , ..USSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 6. ECOS Plan Adoption a. The revised Draft ECOS Plan was approved by the ECOS Steering Committee on January 25, 2013 and recommended to CCRPC and GBIC for adoption. b. Public hearings were held by CCRPC on xxx c. The Chittenden County ECOS Plan was adopted by GBIC on xx and CCRPC on xx. 1 .2 Vision A healthy, inclusive and prosperous community. 1 .3 Mission We will have a collaborative planning process with citizens, public and private organizations to develop a consensus regarding priority actions to achieve the goals below. The intent of this effort is to strengthen and enhance coordination, accountability and implementation of the plans of participating organizations such as state and local governments, planning organizations and other partner organizations - including business, environmental, education, and human services. 1 .4 Principles Principles describe our underlying values and guide the selection of strategies and actions to achieve our goals. These 10 principles will guide the selection of strategies and actions to achieve our goals (adapted from Sustainability Goals & Guiding Principles, ICLEI, October 2010). 1 . Think—and act—systemically. Sustainable communities take a systems perspective and recognize that people, nature and the economy are all affected by their actions. Local governments in these communities consider the broader implications before embarking on specific projects, and they look for ways to accomplish multiple goals rather than default to short-term, piecemeal efforts. 2. Instill resiliency. Sustainable communities possess a strong capacity to respond to and bounce back from adversity. Local governments in these communities prepare for and help residents and institutions prepare for disruptions and respond to them swiftly, creatively and effectively. 3. Foster innovation. Sustainable communities capture opportunities and respond to challenges. Local governments in these communities cultivate a spirit of proactive problem solving to provide access to futures otherwise unobtainable and to enable the risk-taking inherent in innovation. 4. Redefine progress. Sustainable communities measure progress by improvements in the health and wellbeing of their people, environment and economy. Instead of focusing on GDP (throughput of dollars), local governments in these communities use a broad set of indicators. 5. Live within means. Sustainable communities steward natural resources so that future generations have as many opportunities available to them as we do today. They also recognize that resources exist for the benefit of life forms other than humans. Local governments in these communities assess resources, track impacts, and take corrective 8 1.2 Vision I Chapter 1 - introduction DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 action when needed so that they meet the needs of today while maintaining and improving what they leave for future generations. 6. Cultivate collaboration. Sustainable communities engage all facets of society in working together for the benefit of the whole. Local governments in these communities bring government representatives, community members and organizations together and create a culture of collaboration that encourages innovation, sharing of resources, and jointly shared accountability for results. 7. Ensure equity. Sustainable communities allocate resources and opportunities fairly so that all people who do the full range of jobs that a community needs can thrive in it. Local governments in these communities actively eliminate barriers to full participation in community life and work to correct past injustices. 8. Embrace diversity. Sustainable communities feature a tapestry of peoples, cultures and economies underpinned by a richly functioning natural environment. Local governments in these communities celebrate and foster ethnic, cultural, economic and biological diversity and encourage multiple approaches to accomplish a goal. 9. Inspire leadership. Sustainable communities provide leadership through action and results. Local governments in these communities recognize their opportunity to effect change by backing visionary policies with practices that serve as an example for citizens and businesses to emulate. 10. Continuously improve. Sustainable communities engage in continuous discovery, rediscovery and invention as they learn more about the impacts of their actions. Local governments in these communities track both performance and outcomes, are alert for unintended consequences, and modify strategies based on observed results. 1 .5 Broad Goals 1. Natural Systems — Design and maintain a strategically planned and managed green infrastructure network composed of natural lands, working landscapes, and open spaces that conserve ecosystem values and functions, and provide associated benefits to our community. 2. Social Community— Promote the skills, resources, and assurances needed for all community members to participate in the workforce and in their family, civic and cultural lives, within and among their neighborhoods, and in the larger community. 3. Economic Infrastructure — Build the region's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic well being of the community through support of both local and globally competitive initiatives. 4. Built Environment - Make public and private investments in the built environment to minimize environmental impact, maximize financial efficiency, optimize social equity and benefits, and improve public health. 1 .6 Chittenden County Overview 1.5 Broad GoalsiChapter 1 - introduction 9 _USSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Chittenden County is located in northwestern Vermont between Lake Champlain and the highest peaks of the Green Mountains (see Figure 1-1). The County's nearly 350,000 total acres have a rich diversity of landscapes: forests, farms, waterbodies, small cities, suburban areas, and villages. Founded in 1787, Chittenden County has about 156,000 residents living in 19 municipalities that range in size from 20 to almost 40,000 residents. The County is the heart of the Burlington — South Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area (the economic engine of Vermont); home to the State's largest higher education institution, health care facility, and private sector employer; and nationally recognized as having an outstanding quality of life. Figure 1-1 LOCATION OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY, VERMONT Montreal `�'�\ ' i Ti ;' ! ,i ,\ Augusta ' Chittexd J\n \ MAINS' ...I Couurt StJ. sbury �,1 1( ri 1" /: 1 Ejrtir' Or . -.11ier 1/ � 7 I Portland I \ • ) ( VERMONT . z_ R�tland 7} ti` �� , NEW'-\&cncord HANrSHIRE tt r�1L, -1 �r tt �- leboro 1, Binningtor ti NEW YORK j 'Boston rAlbanyi MASSACHUSETTS I .tir ovidence JI` ^' IRHOOE • ',�J' S 'i BLAHO '`1 Hartford CONNECTICUT J , t 1 i 77 _� C./ f i p i `/NEW JERSEY p p '�?1 ,f 0 NewYork F CHAPTER 2 - REGIONAL ANALYSIS 2.0 INTRODUCTION ' 2.0 Introduction I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 This Chapter describes the goals that have been developed through ECOS and the indicator data that shows us how we are doing relative to achieving our goals. Key issues/trends/insights are summarized for each of 16 topics. At the end of this Chapter is a summary of the conclusions drawn from the data. This Chapter and these topics are grouped according to the four Broad Goals (see Section 1.5) as follows and as shown in more detail on the following pages: 2.1 Demographics 2.2 Natural Systems 2.2.1 Ecological Systems (Habitats, Water Quality, Air Quality) 2.2.2 Scenic and Recreational Resources 2.2.3 Climate Change 2.3 Social Community 2.3.1 Education, Knowledge and Skills 2.3.2 Health 2.3.3 Public Safety and Criminal Justice 2.3.4 Social Connectedness 2.3.5 Civic Engagement and Governance 2.4 Economic Infrastructure 2.4.1 Economy 2.4.2 Household Financial Security 2.4.3 Working Lands 2.5 Built Environment 2.5.1 Land Use 2.5.2 Housing 2.5.3 Transportation 2.5.4 Infrastructure 2.5.5 Energy 2.1 DEMOGRAPHICS INTRODUCTION: Information about the people in Chittenden County helps us to understand the nature of our community and how we are changing. It can help decision makers anticipate potential pressures on the wider social, economic and physical environments. Factors such as population growth, age, ethnicity, migration and household makeup are often key determinants of conditions across a whole range of issues affecting quality of life. ■ Projected Population change in Chittenden County— Increase of 50,000 expected in next 25 years. 2.1 DemographicslChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 11 'N,, , ,.FISSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Population 74,425 99,131 115,534 131,761 146,571 156,545 174,348 205,445 Sources: US Census Bureau. 2011 Woods and Poole Forecast for Chittenden County 2005-2035. Approved by CCRPC, date? Population Growth Rate Total - The Chittenden County population growth rate has surpassed both VT and New England: 1990-2010 1.30 - 1.25 - 8 1.20 - p 1.15 - O "' 1.10 K ro 1.05 1.00 US p 0.95 - NE • 0.90 - VT a a, 0.85 - �f 0 D. 0.80 q0 q1 '1 q") qP 5 qb 41 q9 cf4 'L 9 S 1 9 "Zr) �q 1q 1q 1q �q NCINq \q * ♦q r tiI ar rI r� ti ti 'b°° '1° Source:U.S.Bureau of the Census ➢ Population Growth Rate, Minority Population- The Chittenden County minority population growth rate has surpassed VT, New England, and the US: 1990-2010 12 2.1 Demographics I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 3.80 US 8 3.30 1 —NE O —VT O. 2.80 - 0' CC j 2.30 - c 1.80 r. al 1.30 a 0 4O 4♦ 4v 4.5 4p 4h 4b 41 4b 44 00 O♦ 07 OO Op Oh Ob 01 O0 04 ♦O ♦4 ♦4 ♦4 ♦4 �4 ♦4 �4 ♦4 ♦4 ♦4 ,10 ry0 'I. I, ,1, r, ,1•0 ,y0 ,LO rt. 0 Source:U.S.Bureau of the Census ➢ Population Growth Rate, Chittenden County, 1990-2010 3.80 8 3.30 II g 2.80 3� —Total v. 2.30 c White Non-Hispanic 1.80 - 0 Racial/Ethnic p 1.30 Min ro.ity Population A d 0.80 440 44♦ 44`L 44^b 44t• 44h 44b 44'1 44% 444 ,�Q ♦ 'Y g p 5 b 1 ♦O ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 1, 19- 19- ry0O 19O ryOO y2 ryCP y�1`r 1,O Source: US Bureau of the Census 2.1 DemographicslChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 13 _JSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 > Percent of Residents Born in Vermont in Chittenden County and Vermont, 1960 — 2010 80.0% 70.5%72.1% Chittenden County 65.9% 69.4% 61.5% 57.2% 60.0% 58.4% . .°, °56.4% 49.1 /o ■Vermont 7/0 0 51.50% I lir • SOURCE: U.S.Bureau 40.0% of the Census, Characteristics of the Population,1960: Tables 39,82;1970: 20.0% Table 43;1980:Tables 61,174;1990:Tables 23,143;2000:Table 1. 0.0% , 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 • Age > Percent of Residents Age 65+ in Chittenden County, Vermont, and the US, 1960 — 2010 15% 14.60% 0 12.6% 12.5% 12.4% g. ° 12% 11 9% 1 1.4% 1 1.3% 1 1.8' 10.7% .2% 9 9% 9.2% •Chittenden 9% ' ° `ru o County 7.6o/ 6.9% , ■Vermont 6% ■US 3% 0% 11111 II1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Source:US Bureau of the Census 14 2.1 Demographics I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 fr Percent of Residents Under Age 18 in Chittenden County, Vermont, and the US 1960 — 2010 40.0% ° 3t3.3/8.5% 36.6/5.3% 35>6% 3% Chittenden 28.5% County 30.00A 27.6% : 1% 25.7% 24.0% Vermont /0 23.6%25.5 23.1%23. ' 20.70% 20.0% US 20.0% SOURCE U.S.Bureau of the Census, 10.0% II II Characteristics of the Population,1960:Tables 16,27;1970:Tables 19; 35;1980:Tables 62, 0.0% Ill 171;1990:Tables 16, 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 140;2000:STF 3. Median Age in Chittenden County, Vermont, and the US 1960 — 2010 - I 45 41.5 40 — 35 33.0 34.237.735.3 36 7 2 Chittenden 29.5 30 30.5 2 9 County 30 • .4 Vermont 24.7 7.130III III 23.4III 25 US 20 Er- ■ NI ■• ■ 1 5 : : NINISOURCE U.S.luteau of be 10 census,cnaraetetisscs of The I. ■ ■ ■ III popuwabon,1910:Tables 18,27; 5 1970:Tables 19;35;1980 Tables 0 E ■ ■ .11 ■ 82,171,1990:Tables 18,140; 2000:STF 3. 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 fr Share of non-white K-12 public school enrollment by Supervisory Union district Consider using Percent of students enrolled in school by non-white and Hispanic by town (ACS) or Test score gaps between students eligible for free and reduced lunch and those not eligible by Supervisory Union (DOE and in AHS Community Profile Proposal) ■ Families and households 2.1 DemographicsiChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 15 .4SSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan- 1 1/14/2012 ➢ Average Household Size in Chittenden County and Vermont, 1960 -2010 4 3.53 3.39 3.37 3.21 ;Chittenden 2.802.75 County 3 iii2 562 57 2.472.44 ■Vermont 2.37 2.34 2 SOURCE: U.S.Bureau of the Census,Characteristics of the 1 Population,1960:Tables 19,28; 1970:Tables 22;36;1980:Tables 64,173;1990:Tables 21,141; 0 2000:STF 3. i 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 ➢ Percentages of Total Households that are Single Person Households in Chittenden County and Vermont, 1960 -2010 30% ° 27.7%2©.2% 26.1%26.2% Chittenden 0 23.3% County 21.2%22.0%22.9/0 20% 19.0% 19.5% 19.5% ■Vermont 16.0% SOURCE U.S.Bureau of the 10% Census,Characteristics of the Population,1960:Tables 19,28; 1970:Tables 22,36;1980:Tables 64,173;1990:Tables 21,141; 2000:STF 3. 0% 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 ➢ Percentage of non-white households in each municipality 12.0% .: % 10.0% 8.o°ro IMINIMIMMIIAIME 6.0% MI , 4.02°/ 4.0% � , .0. Ve� , = , 1.90% 1.33°/ ?.95°ro .2.1 2' Mikil 2.0% 11 Ili 111 n 1111 n B.■: •Non-White Households 0.0% I JCS y 5: ,. 5 O N N °1 5 i $/ 1 $ 1 31 E ro � 23 ? IAWi2m - ti3g 41 2 .1 (5 U 11 o< y A .1 3 3 3 1 16 2.1 Demographics I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan- 11/14/2012 Source:2010 Census *This percentage is high because there are very few households in Buels Gore. ➢ Percentage of households in each municipality where language other than English is spoken 20.0% 18.0% 17.85% 16.0% 14.45% 13.61% 14.0% 11.90% 10.96% 12.0% 11.33% 10.65% 10.0% 8.17% 9.35% 7.78% 6.97% 8.0% 6.57% 6.0% 5.25% 4.42% ■Households 4.0% 3.29% 2.0% II ■ II ■ ■ II ■ WV II rill II II 0.00% 0.0% 5. `� 2 m d aD o v a c C — 3 'p O p N N _ E 2 E o ` O m° c° v v " _ ? j 3 3 _ m m = N N Source:2006-2010 American Community Survey ■ Race/Ethnicity ➢ Percent of Residents who are Non-White or Hispanic in Chittenden County, Vermont, and the US, 1960 — 2010 25.0% - 23.8% 20.0% 18.9% Chittenden 15.0% lh% County 4% 14.1% -Vermont 10.0% - % 4.9% 7 1% —tir-United States 5.0% - 1 /° 2:2% 4.3% 0.0% .4% 7° ° . % 3.2% 1960 0.2% 1970 0'4% 1980 1990 2000 2010 2.1 DemographicsIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 17 .,JSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 1 1/14/2012 Dissimilarity Index by County. (source: The distribution of racial or ethnic groups across a geographic area can be analyzed using an index of dissimilarity. This method allows for comparisons between subpopulations, indicating how much one group is spatially separated from another within a community. The index of dissimilarity is rated on a scale from 0 to 100, in which a score of 0 corresponds to perfect integration and a score of 100 represents total segregation.1 The index is typically interpreted as the percentage of the minority population that would have to move in order for a community or neighborhood to achieve full integration. A dissimilarity index of less than 30 indicates a low degree of segregation, while values between 30 and 60 indicate moderate segregation, and values above 60 indicate high segregation. Dissimilarity indices in the following table show that the State, including the City of Burlington, has low to moderate levels of segregation between Whites and minority populations. In addition to a White/Black index of 38.8, the State of Vermont has a White/Asian index of 41.8, which suggests that both groups are moderately segregated throughout the State. Additionally, the State has a White/American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN) index of 27.7, a White/multi-race index of 16.6, and a White/Hispanic index of 18.5. These numbers indicate that these subpopulations are more integrated across the State than Blacks and Asians. Black 34,44 35,078 36,821 42.2 Hispanic 3,087 150,426 156,545 18.1 Asian 4,447 150,426 156,545 30.4 ■ Disabilities Disability status of Chittenden County residents (relative to VT and US) About 14,000 people in Chittenden County were identified as having a disability in 2010. Income of people with disabilities is far below that of people without disabilities, reducing their ability to afford housing and further limiting their housing choices. 18 2.1 Demographics I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY IN MAJOR LAND-USE CATEGORIES, 2008 (1,000s of Acres, Rounded to Nearest 100s) Major Land Use Categories 77.6 Residential 1 33.6 ■Shopping, Business,or Trade •Industrial,Manufacturing,or Waste- related ■Institutional & Infrastructure 85.8 ■Travel and Movement ■Leisure -. 17.8 24.2 . 3.7 Natural Resource-Related (Working 5.8 Landscapes) "Mk No Human Activity (or Unclassified) Source:CCRPC,Land Based Classification System,2008 2.1 DemographicsiChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 19 _JSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Pion— 11/14/2012 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS Broad Goal: Design.and maintain a strategically planned and managed green infrastructure network composed of natural areas, working lands, wildlife habitat, scenic views and air quality that help to conserve ecosystem values and functions, and provide associated benefits to our community. INTRODUCTION: A sustainable community preserves natural systems because they offer a richness that nurtures the human spirit as well as protects soil, air and water quality. Healthy landscapes are necessary to sustain the complex myriad of plant and animal species that share our habitat. We are dependent on the surrounding landscapes for many resources such as food, water and fuel; for recreational opportunities and aesthetic values; and for vital natural processes such as water retention and recycling, air cleansing, carbon sequestration, and nutrient cycling. Preservation of our natural systems can help guide new growth into existing developed areas. In addition, a network of healthy natural systems and green infrastructure can make very important contributions to the economic prosperity of the region. As a result of our topography and historic development patterns the eastern side of Chittenden County contains large intact habitat blocks, while the western side does not; however many important habitats exist throughout the entire County. Therefore, this plan calls for efforts to maintain the natural systems throughout the County. The Conserving Vermont's Natural Heritage Guide (Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and the Agency of Natural Resources, 2004) identifies the following seven mechanisms by which current development patterns degrade Vermont's natural heritage: 1. direct loss of diversity; 2. destruction of habitat; 3. habitat fragmentation; 4. disruption of movement, migration, and behavior; 5. introduction of invasive exotic species; 6. degradation of water quality and aquatic habitat; and 7. loss of public appreciation for the environment. Methods to combat or mitigate these mechanisms are crucial to the sustainability of the County as we continue to grow. This Plan uses a multidisciplinary, holistic `ecological systems' approach to understanding our natural and built environment, in which we look at the complex relationships between living elements (such as vegetation and soil organisms) and nonliving elements (such as water and air) of a particular area to understand the whole ecosystem. In that same way, we must look beyond our municipal, county and state political boundaries to understand the impacts, both positive and negative, we have on each other. We need to collaborate with each other and adjust our actions in a measured fashion in support of ecosystem health. In addition, this section looks at the local impacts of a changing climate. Our region's climate is already changing; warmer, wetter conditions are expected to increase this century (footnotes 1, 2 and 3). These changes will adversely impact forest and aquatic communities, water quantity and quality, public health, agriculture, winter sports businesses, and buildings and infrastructure in flood and fluvial erosion hazard areas. Curbing climate change will require planet-wide actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 20 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.2.1 ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Goal: Conserve, protect and improve the health of native species habitats, water quality and quantity, and air quality. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Chittenden County continues to see fragmentation and loss of habitat and connectivity largely due to mounting development pressures. Increasing land parceling and subsequent habitat conversion, lack of local regulations responsive to wildlife habitat concerns, and construction of transportation infrastructure (including roads and trails) continue to adversely impact habitat integrity. In addition, acid deposition from air pollution, migration of invasive species including destructive insect species, and climate change continues to threaten native forest plant and animal habitat. • Vermont water bodies continue to face mounting pressures from unsustainable development, farm and forest activities. Cumulative impacts from these land use activities have degraded water quality, aquatic habitat and altered the stability of river corridors and lakeshores. Issues that predominate in the County include disappearing wetlands, increasing impervious surfaces, steady high pollutant loads (mainly from nonpoint sources such as unmanaged stormwater), that result in nutrient enrichment and sedimentation, as well as other impairments. In addition, aquatic nuisance species continue to enter our waterways, contributing to the degradation of both habitat and recreational opportunities. Climate change is expected to bring us more intense storms at a higher frequency, which will only exasperate the problem. • River corridor resilience is also critical to the health of our ecological systems as well as protection of our infrastructure. Channelization of streams and rivers, reduction and alteration of natural floodplains, and reduction and elimination of vegetative buffers are practices that lead to river corridor instability causing excessive erosion of river channels and additional fluvial erosion hazards. Of the river miles assessed in Vermont, 74% have become confined to deeper, straighter channels and no longer have access to historic floodplains essential to stable streams and sustainable water quality management. • As of 2005, 22,120 residents of Chittenden County (almost 15% of the population) rely on groundwater sources for their drinking water (Source: USGS Water Use Compilation — completed every 5 years). Protection of groundwater resources from failing septic systems and petroleum spills/leaks is critical. • Local zoning lags behind town plans. There is a disconnect between the vision for natural systems as expressed in Municipal Plans, and the Zoning Regulations that implement those plans. In addition, many zoning regulations have vague review standards and definitions, a situation that complicates enforcement and opens the town to due process legal challenges. However, existing bylaws protect the majority of Fluvial Erosion Hazard areas in the County with stream setbacks and floodplain regulations. • Outdoor air pollution in significant concentrations can raise aesthetic and nuisance issues such as impairment of scenic visibility, unpleasant smoke, or odors; and can also pose human health problems, especially for more sensitive populations like children, asthma sufferers, and the elderly. While Chittenden County's air quality meets current National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), we are close to the standards for ground-level ozone and fine particulate. We are also subject to pollution from the mid-west that we cannot control. If the NAAQS are revised to be more stringent - or air pollutant levels 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMSIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 21 ,a.ON DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 increase - so that we exceed the NAAQS, additional and costly environmental regulations will apply to our region. Key Indicators Chittenden County Land Cover Losses (Source: USGS 2001 and 2006 National Land Cover Data): O 210,619 acres or 61% of the land are covered by forest. O 241 acres or .11% of barren land, deciduous forest, evergreen forest, mixed forest, shrub, grassland, woody wetlands, and emergent herbaceous wetlands were converted to development from 2001 to 2006. These land cover categories are being used a surrogate for wildlife habitat as there is currently a lack of a better, more accurate data source.. O 55 acres or .5% of wetlands were developed in Chittenden County from 2001 to 2006. > Number and Length of Degraded Rivers/Streams (See the Water Quality and Safety Map with Strategy 3.2.3 in Chapter 3): O 8 miles or 1% of all stream miles and Shelburne Pond, and Lake Champlain (Mallets Bay, Northeast Arm, Shelburne Bay, and Burlington Bay) are considered impaired (Source: Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation, 303d List Part A, August 2012 USGS, Vermont Hydrography Dataset, 2001-2004). O The 2012 Vermont List of Priority Surface Waters outside CWA Section 303(d) is divided in to six parts, Parts B through G. The six-part list is managed by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) in accordance with the Vermont Surface Water Assessment and Listing Methodology. Each part is considered to be outside the scope of Clean Water Act Section 303(d): • 8 miles or 1% of all stream miles and Burlington Bay, Muddy Brook and Unnamed Tributary of Winooski River are impaired and do not require development of a total maximum daily load because attainment expected in a reasonable time. • 93 miles or 6% of all stream miles and Lake Champlain (Main Section, Northeast Arm), Shelburne Bay, and Potash Brook. • 41 miles or 3% of all stream miles and Lake Champlain (Otter Creek Section, Northeast Arm, Main Section), Arrowhead Mountain Lake, Burlington Bay, Lake Iroquois, Mallets Bay, and Shelburne Bay are altered by exotic species. • 15 miles or 1% of all stream miles and Arrowhead Mountain Lake, Joiner Brook, Lower Lamoille River, and Lower Winooski below Essex #18 dam are altered by flow regulation (e.g., Dams). Phosphorus level concentrations in the Main Lake (partial watershed is in Chittenden County), Malletts Bay, Burlington Bay, and Shelburne Bay have remained relatively steady but consistently above the target in the Main Lake and Mallets Bay. Non point phosphorus loading from streams to the main section of Lake Champlain are recorded at 170 metric tons (2005-2010), far above the target of 51.3 metric tons; in addition nonpoint phosphorus loading from streams to Mallets Bay are recorded at 54.1 metric tons, almost twice the target of 25.4 metric tons (Source: State of the Lake and Ecosystem Indicators Report 2012, Lake Champlain Basin Program). Eil2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis \ N.,. '‘ '%-* 41 , , DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 - Percent of Impervious Surface by Watershed (Source: 2008 Impervious Surface Data, ANR): c 8,267 acres or 7% of the Lake Champlain Watershed is impervious. O 3,145 acres or 3% of the Lamoille River Watershed is impervious. O 7,779 acres or 6% of the Winooski River Watershed is impervious. Chittenden County's Air Quality close to National Ambient Air Quality Standards NAAQS for •round-level ozone and fine particulate: Underhill,VT Ozone Trend Burlington,VT PM 2.5 Trend 1997 National Standard=0.08 ppm 20.0 0.08 National Standard=15 pg/m3 00.07 "y g 15.0 =0.06 E0.05 •2008 National Standard=0.075 ppm 1 0.0 - ;50.04 00.03 'g 5.0 z0.02 a0.01 a OI� c0 c> 0ACV M'NI' h0 � 00. 0 t0 ts. O0, C.4M "7 VI -0 N. 000- 0 0- 0. 0, 0- 0000000000000 0, 0, 0- ', 00, 00000000000 O O O O 000000000000 C (V CV CV CV CV (N (N fV NN (N V (V C fV V C CV V CV N CV CV N Year Year Running 3 year avg of 4th max daily 8-... PM 2.5 Weighted Annual Average For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See Natural Systems Analysis Report and Lake Champlain Basin Program's State of the Lake Reports 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMSIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis : ' ,,ION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.2.2 SCENIC, RECREATIONAL, AND HISTORIC RESOURCES Scenic and Recreational Resources Goal: Conserve, protect and improve valued scenic, recreational, and historic resources and opportunities. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Chittenden County is rooted in its scenic, recreational, and historic resources. These provide residents a place to relax, play, gather, and learn about nature, conservation, and our heritage. They also provide important ecological functions including wildlife habitat, and water and air quality protection. These are supplemented by indoor and outdoor recreation facilities. An extensive system of shared-use paths, on-road bike lanes, and off-road trails connect the County's recreational facilities and areas. See recreation maps here: http://maps.ccrpcvt.org/ChittendenCountyVT/. • Historic resources include buildings, structures, landscapes, and archeological sites, both on land and under water. There are over 4,400 designated historic sites in Chittenden County and over 80 designated historic districts. See historic resource maps here: http://maps.ccrncvt.org/ChittendenCountyVT/. • The recreational value of our water bodies (swimming, fishing, boating, etc.) is critically dependent on water quality. E-coli and algae blooms lead to beach closures, while invasive species threaten our native fish populations. • As we work toward encouraging future development in areas planned for growth to maintain VT's historic settlement pattern of villages and urban centers, surrounded by rural countryside, access to valued scenic, recreation and historic resources should also be maintained and improved for all residents and visitors. • Scenic resources represent an important element of the region's landscape and contribute directly to sense of place, quality of life and economic vitality through tourism and by attracting new residents and businesses. • Eight of the County's municipalities (Milton, Colchester, Essex Junction, Winooski, Burlington, South Burlington, Shelburne and Charlottte) are member communities of the Lake Champlain Byway, a State-designated Scenic Byway that extends from Alburg in the Champlain Islands through Chittenden County on U.S. 7 and south into several towns in Addison County. Since 2002 these communities have secured competitive grants from the National Scenic Byway Program to improve the visitor experience by implementing projects such as wayfinding signage, interpretive panels, brochures, kiosks, and other amenities. In particular, the Byway focuses on improving interpretation and information about municipal and non-profit intrinsic resource sites such as parks, town forests, natural areas, trails and smaller museums. • There is low compatibility between municipal plan recommendations for natural and scenic resources and the implementation of those recommendations through zoning bylaws and subdivision regulation. Further, there are often contradictory goals within municipal plans regarding natural and scenic preservation and new infrastructure for energy generation and transmission. Reconciliation of these are necessary to meet community visions and bring predictability to the development process. 24 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis -iN, , DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Key Indicators ➢ 50,789 acres or 15% of Chittenden County's land area is protected from development. Source: UVM SAL Conserved Land Database and municipalities. ➢ 56,450 acres or 17% of Chittenden County's land area is available for recreation in the form of town & state parks, athletic fields, and natural areas. Source: CCRPC ➢ Local Zoning Lags behind Plans (Source: ECOS Natural Resources Analysis Report, Landworks). Municipal Zoning Regulations vary. O 16% of towns provide specific standards and guidelines for protecting identified scenic resources. O 68% of towns provide general recommendations for protecting scenic resources (e.g., views and landscapes along scenic roads should be protected). O 16% of towns reference scenic resources but provide no goals, standards, guidelines, or recommendations. O 57% of scenic resources identified are of roads or views from roads. o The majority (74%) of towns reference scenic resources in relation to their value as open space. O 42% of towns recognize that woodlands provide scenic as well as ecological values. o About 40% of towns consider historic structures and settlement patterns a scenic resource. O 21% of towns have a scenic overlay/preservation district. For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See Natural Systems Analysis Report 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMSIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 25 oiON DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.2.3 CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change Goal: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change and adapt to become more resilient to a changing climate. Key Issues/Trends/Insights ➢ Temperature and precipitation records for the latter half of the 20th century show that Chittenden County's climate has changed: winters became warmer and summers became hotter.' Lake Champlain freezes over later and less frequently and the growing season lasts longer.2 Annual precipitation has increased, but more falls as rain instead of snow.3 ➢ Scientists overwhelmingly agree that changes in climate worldwide are a result of human activities, mainly the burning of fossil fuels.4 Climate model forecasts5 for the Northeast US predict that during this century temperatures will continue to increase, as will extreme heat days and heat waves. More precipitation and extreme precipitation events are expected to increase, although short-term summer droughts may also become more frequent. ➢ These current and predicted changes in climate have broad implications for our region. o Environmental Quality - Summer air quality will deteriorate, as warmer temperatures promote the formation of smog.6 More intense rainfall will increase storm water runoff and the potential for flooding. Increased rain and runoff will wash pollutants into our waterways, and warmer waters and nutrients will encourage growth of bacteria and blue-green algae.' o Natural Communities - Cold-water aquatic species, such as brook trout, will struggle to survive in warmer waters and in competition with better-adapted species.8 Our forests will change: maple, beech and birch trees will gradually be replaced by oak and hickory trees that are better adapted to warmer, wetter conditions.9 Invasive species, like the hemlock wooly adelgid, will further affect change in forest composition.10 o Public Health11 - Warmer temperatures allow the spread of insect-borne diseases, such as West Nile virus and Lyme disease. Air pollution and higher pollen production will increase problems for people with allergies, chronic respiratory diseases and asthma. High temperatures and heat waves will increase the risk of heat stress for the elderly, very young children and other vulnerable populations. o Built Environment - Flooding will put homes, businesses and public infrastructure in flood-prone areas at risk.12 Flooding may impact the safety of the water supply; droughts will also threaten water supplies.13 Although warmer winters will require less fuel for heating, hotter summers will increase electricity demands for cooling.14 o Local Economy - Warmer temperatures will hurt maple sugar production. Farmers can expect declining yields for cool-weather crops and depressed milk production from heat-stressed dairy cows. 15 Less-colorful foliage seasons will hurt fall tourism.16 Less predictable snow will jeopardize winter sports and recreation and compromise Vermont's image as a winter sports destination.17 ➢ We can respond to climate change in two different ways. Climate mitigation strategies will reduce the region's contribution of greenhouse gases. Although Chittenden County may be a small part of global greenhouse gas emissions, it is important that Chittenden County do its part to help solve the problem. Climate adaptation strategies help individuals, businesses and communities be able to withstand and bounce back from —or even take advantage of—the impacts of climate change. 26 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Key Indicators Greenhouse Gas Emissions. This key indicator of climate mitigation outcomes can be used to measure the effectiveness of climate mitigation strategies. In 2010, Chittenden County emitted approximately 1,177,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (MTCO2e). This represents about 18% of Vermont's greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation energy use (mostly motor vehicles) accounts for 49% of county emissions; heating fuels account for another 39%. CCRPC expects to be able to update this inventory every five years. DRAFT 2010 Chittenden County Greenhouse Gas Emissions (MTCO2e) • Electricity, • Wastewater, 61,600, 5°/ 12,500, 1 ■ Solid Waste, • Agriculture 467,0% 73,000,6% Transportation, 577,000, 49% • Heating, 453,000, 3 ° Source:Draft 2010 Chittenden County Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Data rounded to three significant figures. ➢ Major Disaster Declarations. This key indicator of climate adaptation outcomes measures the number of federally-declared natural disasters in Chittenden County. Major disaster declarations are made for natural events causing damage so severe that it is beyond the combined capabilities of state and local governments to respond. Although Chittenden County has had relatively few major disasters in the past half century, there is a general trend for more frequent major disasters. Severe natural events are expected to increase with climate change; how we plan, develop, prepare and respond will determine the severity of future damages. This indicator is also relevant to hazard mitigation. Major Disaster Declarations -Chittenden County 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 ikd 1 0 0 0 0 o :A 1 963-1 967 1 968-1 992 1 973-1 977 1 978-1 982 1 983-1 987 1 988-1 992 1 993-1 997 1 999-2002 2003-2007 2008-201: Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency ➢ Vegetated Landscapes. Vegetated landscapes are an important supporting indicator for both climate mitigation and climate adaptation. Plants are able to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in biomass and soils—a process called carbon 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMSIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 27 .iUN DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 sequestration. Maintaining forests, wetlands, agricultural lands and vegetated spaces in developed areas is important for ensuring current and future carbon sequestration. Vegetated landscapes are also important for the natural absorption of stormwater, reducing runoff and the potential for flooding. In 2006, Chittenden County was 95% vegetated, approximately equal to the vegetated area in 2001. This indicator is related to the impervious surface indicator in Ecological Systems. Based on 2001 landcover data, the carbon sequestration rate was about 761,000 MTCO2e.18 Climate-Related Infectious Diseases. Increased transmission of vector-borne diseases is a key supporting indicator associated with climate change. The Health Department tracks the number of new Lyme disease, West Nile virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) cases each year. From 2003 to 2009, Chittenden County had one case of WNV and no cases of EEE. Data for Lyme disease are presented below. Vermont Residents Discharged from Vermont, NH, NY and MA Hospitals Hospital Visits for Primary Diagnosis of Lyme Disease: Years of Admission 2003-2009 Number of Hospital Visits* Year of Admission Statewide Chittenden County 2003 17 6 2004 17 ** 2005 49 6 2006 113 11 2007 52 2008 100 9 2009 82 Number of Hospital Visits includes all inpatient and outpatient visits. Number of Hospital Visits less than 6. Source: This analysis is based on the annual Vermont Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Sets (VUHDDS), inpatient and outpatient. VUHDDS does not include Emergency Department data prior to 2003. Data for 2010 is not available at this time. Heat Stress Hospitalizations. This supporting indicator of climate adaptation outcomes measures the annual number of emergency department visits related to heat stress. Between 2003 and 2009, Chittenden County residents averaged 14.7 emergency department visits for heat stress. 19 heat stress hospitalizations occurred in 2008 and 8 occurred in 2009. This indicator can be updated annually from Vermont Dept. of Health data. For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See Chittenden County Climate Change Trends and Impacts and Chittenden County Regional Climate Action Plan [in development] 28 2.2 NATURAL SYSTEMS I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY Broad Goal: All community members have the skills, resources, and assurances needed to participate in the workforce and in family, civic, and cultural life within and among neighborhoods and in the larger community. INTRODUCTION: Our region's economic, social and intellectual well-being depends on the strength of its people. What is more integral to any municipal or regional plan than the people who live, work and play in the region? Plans often focus on natural and physical capital while inadvertently missing the element that is inherently the most significant in determining the future success of a region's prosperity and well-being — its people. Just as we identify desired goals and benchmarks to measure progress for natural and physical capital, we need to do the same for social (civic engagement, social connectedness, arts and culture) and human capital (education, health, safe people). Equity must also be at the core of our plans for the future. Ensuring that all — especially low-income and people of color- can participate in all aspects of a community is essential to our long-term success. Equity is both a means to a healthy, resilient community and an end from which we all benefit. Educational achievement is essential for effective participation in society and to maintain a region's economic prosperity. Increasingly, urban societies are becoming knowledge-based and urban economies require innovative solutions to meet market demands. People's ability to learn new skills and reskill during their working lives is important if they are to keep pace with rapidly changing work environments. Access to life-long learning opportunities is also related to people's need for self-fulfillment and self-determination. Student achievement measures show clear performance gaps for low-income and students of color. If we are to remain an economically and socially viable community, all of our youth need the skills and education to participate as they are the future drivers of our region. A high quality public education can be the "great equalizer," ensuring the democratic ideal of equal opportunity. The Vermont PreK-16 Council and the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce have identified as goals to close the achievement gaps and create a seamless PK-16 student-centered, performance-based learning system framed by rigorous standards and high expectations for all students, regardless of racial/ethnic background or socioeconomic status. The system will provide not just content learning but —21st century skills.11 These include (1) information and technology skills, (2) life and career skills, and (3) learning and innovation skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Ensuring for equity so that all members of our community can reach their fullest potential is assuring for a more inclusive, prosperous and sustainable region. The health of a population is inextricably linked to the design of the community in which it lives, works and recreates. All the people of Chittenden County should have the opportunity to make choices conducive to living a long, healthy life, regardless of their income, education, race, or ethnic background. Approaching community design from a public health perspective marks the reunification of two disciplines long separated by narrowly focused Euclidean planning. The design of a community can buttress certain behaviors while it undermines others, impact social circumstances, access to healthcare, and environmental exposures. The determinants of health 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 29 JION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 must be addressed from a holistic approach; no discipline cuts across these domains as broadly as community design. Investments in the region's human and social capital are investments in the future of the region's economic and social prosperity. 30 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.3.1 EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Education, Knowledge, and Skills Goal: All Chittenden County children and adults have the education, skills and opportunities necessary to meet their full economic and social potential and well-being. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Chittenden County requires a well-educated workforce and well-educated individuals to attract good employers and livable wage jobs, to engage in civic affairs and the arts, and to take responsibility for the welfare of ourselves, each other and the natural environment we cherish. Our region's economic, social and intellectual well-being depends on educational attainment through a continuum of accessible and affordable educational opportunities from the early years through adulthood. • The first five years of life are critical to a child's lifelong development. Young children's earliest experiences and environments set the stage for future development and success in school and life. Children from families that are economically secure and have healthy relationships are more likely to get a good start in kindergarten and maintain that advantage as they progress through school. The larger the gap at school entry, the harder it is to close. (National School Readiness Indicators Initiative) • Research shows that children who are not performing proficiently in reading by the end of third grade are at very high risk for poor long-term outcomes, such as dropping out of school, teen pregnancy and juvenile crime. (National School Readiness Indicators Initiative) • While Vermont can boast of a solid K-12 system which benefits from strong community support, small class sizes and high graduation rates (2nd in nation), it ranks 48th in its college going rate. (Nation's Report Card, 2009) • Though the educational level of Chittenden County residents 25 and older with four year bachelor's degree or higher exceeds state (32.6%) and national (27.5%) levels at 42%, of every 100 high school 9th graders, only 26 will complete a college program within 150% of normal time. (6 years for a 4-year degree and 3 years for a 2-year degree) (New England Board of Higher Education, 2006 data) • We need to close the lingering achievements gaps and work to create a seamless PK-16 education system framed by rigorous standards and high expectations for all students. • About 45% of matriculated first-year students at the Community College of Vermont (CCV) are taking non-credit remedial classes in writing or mathematics. At other Vermont State Colleges, the number ranges from 5%-45%, with an overall average of 22% taking remedial courses. (VT PreK-16 Council, 2012) • 38 of Vermont's 50 fastest-growing occupations— including six of the 10 fastest-growing jobs — require significant postsecondary education. (Vermont Business Roundtable) • 30% of employers (largely within the skilled machine trades) report that they have training needs that are not met by local resources. (WDGT Chittenden Employer Survey, 2011) Key Indicators 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYjChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 31 ,ION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan- 11/14/2012 % of children entering kindergarten school ready according to developmental domains (Source: Statewide Assessment of Kindergarten Readiness across 5 domains - AHS, United Way) Year Approaches Cognitive. Communication Socio- Health to learning Dev./General emotional Knowledge Development State of Vermont 2009 88% 61% 81% 67% n/a Colchester (2007 2008 81% 64% 91% 67% 86% data; 2009 not available) Milton 2009 67% 73% 81% 77% n/a Chittenden East 2009 75% 67% 88% 77% n/a Chittenden Central 2009 62% 70% 84% 55% n/a Chittenden South 2009 75% 74% 90% 83% n/a Burlington 2009 70% 66% 82% 75% n/a South Burlington 2009 71% 61% 82% 70% n/a Winooski 2009 32% 50% 51% 49% n/a Essex Town 2009 70% 61% 86% 72% n/a > % Chittenden County students proficient in reading by end of 3rd grade and math by end of 7th grade > % Chittenden County students proficient in math, science and reading in 1 lth grade Percent of Chittenden County's students scoring proficient or above on 2011-2012 state assessments SUBJECT READING MATH SCIENCE GRADE 4 8 11 4 8 11 11 All Students 77.5% 83.6% 75.7% 75.3% 69.1% 43.4% 44.4% Female 83.4% 84.8% 82.7% 76.9% 68.4% 42.4% 46.0% Male 71.5% 82.4% 69.2% 73.7% 69.8% 44.3% 42.8% Hispanic or Latino 84.6% 83.9% 75.0% 76.9% 67.7% 31.6% 42.1% American Indian or Alaskan Native * * * * * * * Asian 64.8% 74.1% 60.5% 70.2% 59.3% 45.2% 39.7% Black or African American 59.1% 53.8% 32.7% 40.9% 28.8% 7.3% 11.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander * * * * * * * White 79.5% 85.6% 78.8% 77.6% 71.7% 45.2% 46.2% Not FRL 86.7% 90.8% 84.2% 84.3% 78.6% 51.0% 52.6% FRL 56.8% 60.6% 44.2% 55.2% 38.8% 15.5% 13.6% ELL 20.4% 21.9% 8.5% 30.9% 7.7% 6.8% 4.8% Not ELL 79.6% 86.2% 78.5% 77.0% 71.8% 45.0% 45.9% Based on 2011-2012 testing year. Reading and Math tests evaluate prior year's learning. * = data suppressed because of an N<11 Source: VT Dept. of Education. > % 9th grade students who do not complete high school in six years; 32 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2010-2011 7-12 Event Dropout Rate of Chittenden County's students SUBJECT Dropout Rate All Students 1.3% Female 1.1% Male 1.6% Hispanic or Latino 3.4% American Indian or Alaskan Native 2.2% Asian 4.2% Black or African American 1.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander White 1.3% Multi-Racial 1.5% Not FRL 0.7% FRL 3.4% ELL 0.5% Not ELL 1.4% * =data suppressed because of an N<11 Source: VT Dept. of Education. ➢ Hi.hest level of education attained for those 25 and over. Percent high school graduate or higher 91.3% 93.6% Percent bachelor's degree or higher 34.0% 46.1% Source: 2011 ACS 3-year ➢ % of adults with any post-graduate(high school) training or apprenticeships In Chittenden County, educational levels among residents 25 years old and older exceed state and national norms. The estimated percentage of county residents with a four year bachelor's degree, or higher is 42.4% compared to a state average of 32.6% and a national average of 27.5%. The percent with graduate degrees also exceed state and national averages by significant margins. Include percent with HS diplomas. Include percent that has obtained some other kind of training. For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See Education Analysis Report, located in document appendix http://ecosproject.com/analysis 2.3.2 HEALTH Health Goal: All Chittenden County residents are healthy. 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 33 ,ION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Similar to national statistics, the leading causes of death in Chittenden County are cardiovascular disease (32%), followed by cancer (26%). Tobacco use, diet, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol consumption are modifiable, behavioral risk factors associated with these diseases. • Behaviors are the most important contributors to health outcomes. The healthcare system, with its successes and failings, receives a disproportionate amount of attention. While it is undeniable that all Chittenden County residents should have access to affordable healthcare, the healthcare system's impact on population health is nominal compared to behavior, genetics and social circumstances. On the other hand, the healthcare system exerts significant effect after chronic disease is manifest. • Health begins in our families, in our schools and workplaces, in our playgrounds and parks, and in the air we breathe and the water we drink. The conditions in which we live and work have an enormous impact on our health. Behaviors can be influenced, supported, or undermined by community design. Community design can also impact social circumstances, healthcare, and environmental exposures. Chittenden County residents should have the opportunity to make the choices that allow them to live a long, healthy life, regardless of their income, education or ethnic background • Community design can influence the overall well being of a community by making healthy lifestyle choices easily available and accessible to all community members. Healthy Community Design links public health themes (such as physical activity, public safety, healthy food access, mental health, air and water quality, and social equity) with traditional planning concepts (such as land use, transportation, community facilities, parks, and open space). The overall health of a community is underpinned by the planning strategies employed in its design. Community design can positively impact population health by increasing physical activity, reducing injury, increasing access to healthy food, improving air and water quality, minimizing the impact of extreme weather events due to climate change, decreasing mental health stresses, strengthening the social fabric of a community, reducing exposure to tobacco and alcohol advertising, increasing smoke-free indoor and outdoor policies, and providing fair access to livelihood, education, and resources. • Interventions at the community, policy, and systems levels are critical to achieving individual level behavior changes that will improve health. • Tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and excessive alcohol consumption are the leading causes of death in that they are the factors underlying the disease labels traditionally used to present this metric. Community design elements that support eliminating tobacco use, increasing physical activity levels, improving nutrition, and decreasing excessive alcohol consumption are the priorities on which focus must be brought to bear. Research shows that healthy community design is associated with improvements in these health behaviors. • There are significant differences in prevalence of cancer by age. A higher proportion of adults 65 years and older (15%) have ever had cancer compared to all other age groups. There are no other statistically significant differences by demographic characteristics. 34 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11/14/2012 • There are no statistically significant differences in prevalence of overweight or obesity by grade or race/ethnicity. However, compared to males, a significantly lower proportion of females are obese (5% vs. 11%) and a lower proportion are overweight (10% vs. 14%). • Within Chittenden County, there are several identified populations who experience health disparities (i.e., racial or ethnic minorities, low-income, homeless). These populations suffer disproportionately from poor health outcomes. For example, those living in poverty and with food insecurity are more likely to be obese. The distribution of the data supports the link between poor health outcomes and low socioeconomic status. It is material to note that while county-wide data for a specific indicator may not indicate a problem, that same indicator sorted by economic status or education level, may reveal a significant public health issue, in a particular community. Key Indicators Chittenden County Cardiovascular All Cancerst Disease**** Adults* 5% 6% Gender Male 7% 5% Female 4% 7% Age $ $ 18-24 1% -- 25-34 0% -- 35-44 1% 2% 45-64 5% 6% 65+ 19% 15% Race/Ethnicity White, non-Hispanic 5% 5% Racial-Ethnic Minority 7% 4% Federal Poverty Level <250% 8% $ 6% >250% 4% 5% * BRFSS 2008-2010; Age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 population with the exception of All Cancers ****Cardiovascular disease is defined as have coronary heart disease, a 71 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis ,.3 ,iON DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 myocardial infarction, or a stroke. t Cancer is defined as ever diagnosed with cancer, not including squamous or basal cell skin cancers. $Statistically significant difference from other subgroups Supporting Indicators dults* Youth Overweight Prevalence 37% 12% Obesity Prevalence 20% 8% Poor Mental health 8% 18% Binge Drinking 18% 19% Smoking Prevalence 12% 10% Source: *BRFSS 2008-2010:Age-adjusted to the U.S.2000 population with the exception of All Cancers, **YRBS 2011 ■ There are significant differences in smoking prevalence by age. A lower proportion of Vermonters 65 and older (5%) are current smokers compared to all other age groups. A higher proportion of adults 25-34 years old (18%) are current smokers compared to adults 45-64 years old (11%). Though a higher proportion of Vermonters of racial and ethnic minorities (18%) are current smokers compared to white, non-Hispanic Vermonters (11%), this does not reach the level of statistical significance. There is a statistically significant difference in the proportion of Vermonters under 250% of the Federal Poverty Line (22%) compared to those above 250% (8%). ■ There are significant difference in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease by gender, age, and Federal Poverty Level. A higher proportion of males (7%) have CVD compared to females (4%). A higher proportion of adults 65 years and older (19%) have CVD compared to all other age groups. A higher proportion of adults living below 250% of the Federal Poverty Line (8%) have CVD compared to those above 250% (4%). There was no statistically significant difference by race/ethnicity. For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See Public Health Analysis Report, Healthy Vermonters 2020 c.+.... IV2O2O111lUGA.dJIJ. ) 2.3.3 PUBLIC SAFETY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE & HAZARD MITIGATION Public Safety, Criminal Justice Goal: Improve the safety of the public including the loss of life and property from natural and manmade hazards. 36 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Key Issues/Trends/Insights ■ Feeling safe and secure in our homes, communities and urban areas is key to overall health in the community. Safety and perceptions of safety feature highly in people's view of their living environment, their sense of well-being and quality of life. As urban areas grow, the need for safe social and physical environments, where people are able to participate fully in their communities, becomes an increasing challenge. ■ The cost of emergency response and multiple law enforcement agencies is a challenge to municipalities. ■ The lack of volunteers for volunteer fire departments is causing concerns about the ability and timeliness of response and is resulting in the need to hire firefighters. ■ As identified by the 2011 Chittenden County Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan, the highest ranked county-wide hazards are severe winter storm, flooding, telecommunications failure, power loss, major transportation incident, fluvial erosion and epidemic. Three of the top hazards are natural hazards, three are technological hazards, and one is a societal hazard. ■ Flooding and fluvial erosion can damage or destroy homes, businesses and transportation infrastructure. ■ Winter storms, flooding, transportation incidents and epidemics can cause human injury, illnesses and even death. ■ Winter storms, telecommunications failure, power loss and transportation incidents can cause serious disruption of public safety services. ■ Flooding, fluvial erosion and possibly epidemics may be made worse by projected climate changes. While Incident Command System training has continuously been offered throughout the state, post-Irene analysis has shown that previous ICS training was positively correlated with increased ability to respond to the challenges posed by Irene. This increase was due to the ability to organize a unified command structure within the town and work more efficiently. ■ Emergency Management Planning of all types needs to be kept up to date to best be able to respond, recover, and mitigate disasters. These plans include Basic Emergency Operations Plans (BEOP) for each municipality, implementing improvement plans from exercises, and hazard mitigation plans. Key Indicators ➢ Violent Crime Rate 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 7 ,UN DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 Chittenden County Per Capita Violent Crime Rate 12.0 a eg 10.0 E 8.0 _ u 6.0 -- `e m 4.0 o 0 2.0 a 0.0 - 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 d Year Source: Vermont Crime Statistics Online, ACS 1-Year Population Estimates 2005-2010 Rate of adult abuse and neglect victims (AHS list) Data not available until March, 2013 Incarceration rates by race compared to general population (Source: Dept of Corrections). "The largest proportion of both male and female inmates were prosecuted in the largest District Court (Chittenden county) with the fewest inmates from the smallest counties. But on a per capita basis, Chittenden was close to average in its use of incarceration bedspace; only Bennington (176%) significantly exceeded expectations for use of prison/jail based on its population" (Source: DOC Fact and Figures FY2011, Page 38). "Although the residents of Vermont are predominantly characterized by race as "white", on a per capita basis, the utilization of DOC services by "black" residents is about 7 times higher for incarceration and 2.5 times higher utilization of DOC services by "black" residents is about 7 times higher for incarceration and 2.5 times higher for field supervision. Native Americans and Asians use DOC resources at about half the rate of"whites" (Source: DOC Fact and Figures FY2011, Page 38). • Fire Safety incidents (data needed) > % and number of structures in special flood hazard areas in Chittenden County (based on GIS analysis). Source: CCRPC and/or State NFIP. Data: 1.5% of structures or 866 structures out of 58,598 structures are within the Special Flood Hazard Area and Fluvial Erosion Hazard Area in 2012. Vaccination rates— need data from Dept of Health • American Red Cross # of incidents and persons where shelter was needed— need data • EMS aging calls (Health Dept) — need data For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources See 2011 Chittenden County Multi-Jurisdictional All Hazards Mitigation Plan 38:` 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.3.4 SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS Social Connectedness Goal: Increase opportunities for people of all backgrounds to engage in the multicultural social fabric and activities of the community. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Social connectedness provides an indication of community strength and resiliency. The concept of community is fundamental to people's overall quality of life and sense of belonging. Informal networks and how people connect with others are important for strong communities and social cohesion. Confident and connected communities suffer less social problems, are adaptable to challenges, and support social and economic development. There are major health, economic and environmental benefits in developing opportunities for and participation in social interactions, recreation and leisure, arts and cultural activities. • Resident attachment describes the emotional connection residents feel towards a geographic community. Research conducted by the Knight Foundation and Gallup discovered that the main drivers that influence attachment to a place are how accepting a community is of diversity, its wealth of social offerings, and its aesthetics. A correlation was also discovered that tied stronger resident attachment to better local economic growth (GDP). (Knight Foundation, http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/) • Social connectedness has been identified as a social determinant for individuals' health and well-being. Individuals who experience disenfranchisement and social exclusion suffer greater risk of depression, illness and addiction. (Minnesota Dept of Health) • While Chittenden County continually ranks high for its quality of life, there are segments of our community who persistently suffer exclusion, or are at risk of suffering disenfranchisement. Underrepresented communities (low-income, people of color, foreign born, seniors, youth) have identified barriers such as lack of reliable transportation, the inability to meet one's basic needs, institutional racism and exclusion from governance as the greatest threats to their quality of life and sense of well-being. (ECOS' outreach efforts, 2011-12; Legacy Project outreach, 2010-12; Plan BTV outreach, 2012) • Group attendance at art events gives community members a shared experience that is both aesthetically rewarding, strengthens connectedness, and contributes to cultivating and supporting a culture of art appreciation. • Chittenden County's proximity to Montreal, Boston and New York City (by air) creates access to some of the world's greatest arts and cultural resources. However, access and inclusion to public art, free or low cost arts and cultural activities locally is limited, particularly in communities outside of Burlington. • Chittenden County can boast of spectacular natural landscapes and a beautiful waterfront, protected by intentional zoning and development. Key Indicators ➢ % of residents who say that they mostly have positive interactions in their communities (neighborhood, school/work, larger community) (primary data-Survey residents about quality of life;disaggregated by race,income) need data 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 39 iON DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 of residents who feel positive about the increasing ethnic diversity of our region (primary data-Survey residents about quality of life;disaggregated by race,income) need data % of residents who feel that there are enough: -opportunities to connect with others; -gathering places to connect with others (primary data-Survey residents about quality of life:disaggregated by race, income) need data % of residents engaged in arts and cultural activities (primary data-Survey residents about quality of life;disaggregated by race,income) need data % of residents within '/4 mile of parks or publicly accessible natural areas. For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See other research/reports? 40 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.3.5 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Civic Engagement: People from diverse backgrounds feel that they have a say in political and non-political decisions that affect their lives, neighborhoods and communities. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Civic engagement consists of political and nonpolitical activities that help identify and address community concerns. Being able to participate in, express views and influence decisions that affect one's life, neighborhood and community are essential for a true democracy. Effective civil and political systems allow our communities to be governed in a way that promotes justice and fairness and supports people's quality of life. • Enabling democratic local decision making is one of the key purposes of local government and is also important in promoting the social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing of communities. Vermont and Chittenden County have a long held tradition of "local rule." Sometimes this supports to maintain local traditions and pride; and sometimes it is an impediment to collaboration and integrating new ideas. • The population in our area is becoming increasingly ethnically diverse, with at least 58 languages spoken at home. It is important that we understand how our institutions and processes need to evolve in order to remove barriers that limit people's ability to exercise their civic rights and decision making. • Members from various local ethnic communities have indicated a disconnect with local government processes. (ECOS' outreach efforts, 2011-12; Legacy Project outreach, 2010- 12; Plan BTV outreach, 2012) • Youth and adults of diverse cultural backgrounds do not feel that they are involved in decisions that affect their lives, neighborhoods and communities and therefore feel that they cannot participate and fully give back and improve the community's well-being. Key Indicators ➢ % of eligible voters that vote (Can this be disaggregated by race, gender, age?) % General Election Voter Turnout 2004 2006 2008 2010 Chittenden County 69% 59.9% 70.2% 52% Vermont 70.7% 60.7% 72% 54% Source:Vermont Secretary of State. ". info.html % of students who spend 3+ hours/week volunteering '• " ... • . Percent 13.0% 12.0% 12.0% 12.0% 12.0% 13.0% Source:2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Dept of Health 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITYIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis „A DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Local elected officials by race, gender (Source: BTV-Wanda Hines, or Primary data collection) need data Municipally-appointed commissions and boards by race, gender (Source: BTV- Wanda Hines, or primary data collection) need data % of residents that feel they have a meaningful voice in the decision-making processes that affect their life, neighborhood and community? (source: primary data collection through survey) need data For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See other research/reports? 42 2.3 SOCIAL COMMUNITY I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE Broad Goal: Build the region's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic wellbeing of the community through support of both local and globally competitive initiatives. INTRODUCTION: The more prosperous an economy in a region, the better off the residents of that region are in terms of opportunities to gain a higher income, purchase needed items and access quality health care. In general, this leads to greater social connectedness, educational advancement, increased life expectancy, and happiness. Furthermore, if businesses are prospering, they are better able to continue to provide philanthropic and volunteer support for the community. Over the past several decades the County's share of population, Gross Domestic Product, jobs and income, among other economic indicators, has increased. In reviewing the findings presented in the Economic Base and Competitive Assessment reports, it is apparent that Chittenden County enjoys a competitive advantage relative to the balance of the state. Despite the advantages the region has enjoyed in many areas, however, there are some disquieting trends that need to be acknowledged. If recent trends continue, there will be additional loss of jobs in high-wage industries and slow growth in lower-wage industries. Job growth has been slow over the past decade and this is likely to continue into the future. However, the Chittenden County region has a highly desirable quality of life by many measures and there will continue to be growth pressures. Our challenge is how to manage and shape these larger external growth pressures to improve our job opportunities and incomes while also improving our quality of life. This section of the ECOS Plan looks at three goals related to our economy: Economy, Household Financial Security, and Working Lands. Under each of these goals, is a quick review of key issues and trends including a short list of selected indicators. In an effort to provide general data there will be more specific data elements and stories that are not included. It does not mean that these specific and smaller issues are not important, only that in this Plan we are focusing on the biggest and most important trends that will affect the long term ability of our residents and our children and grand children to have a range of opportunities for jobs, income growth, and be able to afford not only their basic needs (housing, food, clothing), but also be able to fully enjoy their life in Chittenden County. Our economy is typically looked at in terms of farm and non-farm employment. Therefore, this section includes an Economy section that looks at our non-farm employment and jobs and the opportunities for employment outside of agriculture. The Working Lands section focuses on agriculture as an industry and land use. The Household Financial Security section looks at the result of having a job (or not): income and pressures on income that impact our families' ability to enjoy their lives. 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTUREIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 43 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.4.1 ECONOMY Goal: Retain and support existing employers and job growth, grow target sector employers and entrepreneurs, and work to attract a greater diversity of employers and employees. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Chittenden County's employment base is largely within five private industry sectors: Healthcare and social assistance; retail trade; manufacturing; accommodation and food service; and professional, scientific and technical services. • Chittenden County is a mix of urban, suburban and rural areas, with a rural character that is important to many residents. Similarly, the economy includes the largest for-profit employer in the state (the major IBM complex); the largest retail area in Vermont with four communities ranking in the top five in the state based on 2011 retail sales tax reports (Williston —#1; South Burlington —#2; Burlington—#4; and Colchester - #5 (source: Vermont Department of Taxes); and significant agricultural, recreational and open space areas. This mix of uses results in a character cherished by its residents and appealing to prospective residents. The challenge is to plan and manage future growth, including economic development, so that it sustains and enhances this community character. • Employment in the private sector declined between 2000 and 2010. Total non-farm employment in Chittenden County decreased from 95,354 to 93,231 between 2000 and 2010 — a loss of 2,123 jobs, or -2.2 percent. This was offset in part by an increase in public sector employment, but it was not sufficient to offset private sector losses (private sector: - 4,386 + public sector: 2,263 = net -2,123). • Chittenden County is currently modestly-supplied with buildings and land for business expansion. In the future, additional "shovel-ready" sites with good access, full utilities and proper zoning will be necessary if the County is to be competitive in attracting larger projects or retaining local businesses seeking to expand. • Educational levels among residents 25 years old and older exceed state and national norms. (See Section 2.5 Education for more detail.) However, due to our aging demographics and available workforce, we need more individuals with postsecondary training and experiences. • The County is blessed with a highly desirable quality of life. The notable exception is the affordability of housing, which was both rated the lowest quality of life factor in the Employers Survey as well as being the most commonly observed weakness of the area in interviews of employers. • Based upon the results of the Employers Survey, recreational opportunities, safety from crime, and cultural opportunities all scored Very Good or higher, while the quality of the K— 12 educational system scored just below Very Good. The types and varieties of recreational and cultural opportunities in Chittenden County are too numerous to list here.The County's labor force has a relatively low unemployment rate and high labor participation rate, with many skills categories, particularly technical skills, reported as difficult to find or unavailable by area employers. While some of these needs are for skills that are unique to specific 44 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11/14/2012 companies, several employers surveyed reported similar training needs for skilled manufacturing occupations particularly in the machine trades. Interviewed manufacturers emphasized the strong need for local training programs in machining and other skilled occupations to support their growth and sustainability. They also expressed concern and frustration over a lack of proficiency in math and writing skills. Key Indicators Recent Chittenden County job growth has been stronger than the U.S., New England and Vermont. 1.30 - — - - 1.25 0 1.20 — £ 1.15 — 0 1.10 - ^ 1.05 US cQ 1.00 II 0.95 ENE o P. 0.90 VT c0.85 cc K 0.80 r _ O > N IA •O ). CO 0 r > Cf •O h T O• "a o• o. fl • o. a o. `0036 0 o a p1 o O o a 7— y Q a c 6 Z 4 (I)) Q c o < L ° o O °' Q Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics ' Total number of businesses in Chittenden County: Since peaking in 2008 the County's business count has dropped by 101 o 6200 v 6000 - 2 5800 ■ ■ c 500 M ■ N ■ ■ 5400 5200 II 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics > The unemployment rate in the greater Burlington area (NECTA*) has declined faster than the New England and US rates over the past two years. 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTUREIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 45 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 12 US 10 NE VT 8 ON\ — NECTA • 0 6 `1 4 yr v 2 0 r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r i r r r r r O O cV M ' U) h ,o p p N M h h �o r8 8 0• O O o• a' o• P a' O' P o• o• O' O� O' 8 0 0 0 O O O O O O 0 0 o 6. 3.. 8 c >> e -. 3.. a o o m - i a a o o y a a >o a�i a a a o d Z N Z N Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics ■ Professional and technical services and Manufacturing jobs pay significantly higher salaries than our other major employment sectors. Major Employment Sectors - Employees and Wages Avg Wage CC inuimilmmimonom Prof&tech services Accom.& food services 11.111111.11 ■2000 Wages Manufacturing 2010# of employees Retail Trade - I ; Health Care/Social Assist. 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 Source:VT Department of Labor For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. 46 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 For Additional Information/Resources • See Economic Base and Competitive Assessment Analysis Reports, located in document appendix http://ecosproject.com/analysis 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTUREIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 47 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.4.2 HOUSEHOLD FINANCIAL SECURITY Household Financial Security Goal: Improve the financial security of households. INTRODUCTION: Levels of income and wealth are key determinants of individual or family wellbeing. Economic standard of living involves a complex combination of factors such as income, living costs, and household size and composition. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • In 2008, 21% of Chittenden County residents were living at less than 200% of the federal poverty level and many receive state and federal assistance to meet basic needs • Lower income Vermonters report higher rates of depression and chronic conditions, such as obesity, asthma, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. • The County's ability to grow its economy in the future will be closely tied to its ability to provide available labor, particularly once the currently unemployed are absorbed back into the ranks of the employed as much as their skills will allow. A broad-based strategy of skills upgrading, new methods of recruiting, and alternative working arrangements will be necessary. • More focus is needed on education and workforce development to train employees for the opportunities in the technologies needed for manufacturing, professional services and health care. See more under the "Education" topic. • Household financial security influences a family's ability to access enough food to fully meet basic needs at all times. Lack of financial resources can cause food insecurity. O 15,401 Chittenden County residents participate in 3SquaresVT (formerly known as Food Stamps). O 6.6% increase in 3SquaresVT participation since 2010. O 1 in 7 children in Chittenden County are food insecure. O 26% of grade school and high school students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals (Hunger Free VT—www.hungerfreevt.org). Key Indicators ➢ Chittenden County household income is higher than both VT and the US. However, median household income in the County has declined for two consecutive years, approximately back to 2006 levels. 48 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 70.0 60.0 0 50.0 ■ I LI�' 0 40.0 ■CC oo '71 I I I I I I I I I I I .vT a v30.0 I I I I I I I I I I I I I •uS III 10.0 0.0 I r r IIIIIIII11 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source: US Census Household income varies significantly by race Race of Head of Median Margin of .. Household Income rr White $60,297 +/- $1,376 African-American $40,865 +/- $5,687 Asian $54,417 +/- $10,580 Two or more races $52,358 +/- $12,820 Source: U.S. Census Bureau,American Community Survey 2005-9 Percentage of Families whose Income in the Last 12 Months is Below Poverty Level r Estimates Chittenden 6.10% 6.70% County Vermont 6.90% 7.60% US (2010) 15.1 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2005-9 Average Combined Housing + Transportation Costs is 53% of County median income (derived from the H+T Affordability Index, Center for Neighborhood Technology). 45% is considered the threshold of affordability. For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions. For Additional Information/Resources • See Housing Analysis Report 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTUREIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis `4 - s. DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.4.3 WORKING LANDS & LAND BASED INDUSTRIES Working Lands Goal: Support the growth and vitality of working farms and managed forests; and sustainably manage sand and gravel extraction operations. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Working lands and resource extraction industries are critical components of a self-reliant and diverse economy, making a region less vulnerable to market crises. Local food and fuel production is preferred since the transportation to import these products consumes tremendous amounts of energy and generates pollution. In addition, when food is imported from far-away places, nutrient value is reduced during the transport time. • Working lands and resource extraction industries are economically viable within the constraints of our natural landscape. Sustainably managed farmland and forest land means less developed land, fewer impervious surfaces, and thus a greater presence of the natural ecosystem's features and functions. Conversely, high quality food and productive forests are dependent upon clean water and clean, nutrient-rich soils. It is imperative that we maintain high quality water and soils for healthy and viable food and forest product industries. • A major challenge to forest and farm businesses is the value of the land in these industries versus the value of the land for development. Often when these industries are no longer economically viable, the land is sold and developed, resulting in forest fragmentation and increased parceling of land. The number of parcels has gone up, while their size has gone down, diminishing their economic viability and the ecological services they provide. This situation has far-reaching potential consequences for the future of Vermont's local economies, including tourism. • Markets for forest products and ecosystem services are necessary to ensure that landowners can afford to hold and manage their forest land (Vermont Forest Resource Plan, page 57). Unfortunately, the Vermont forest products industry is in slow and unheralded decline which has resulted in dramatic reductions in wood processing and manufacturing (Action Plan of the Vermont Working Landscape Partnership, page 14)). In the face of increasing gas prices and international trade, the value of local markets and processing cannot be overstated. Markets for forest products are often influenced on regional scales beyond the county level, though support of opportunities to develop and take advantage of markets must occur at the local scale. • In recent decades, farm enterprises in the County have been employing new forms of business ownership, engaging in non-farm employment, limiting the size of farm operations to control the growth of farm production expenses, producing different types of farm products, producing more farm-related products, and engaging in more direct sales to consumers. These trends present a new set of challenges for farmers and communities, including access to markets and access to affordable land. Difficulties acquiring the proper equipment, or accessing to a certified processing facility are also a common problem for some new farmers. We will need to adjust our regulations and programs to ensure that we are not unnecessarily prohibiting agricultural enterprises from diversifying as well as continue efforts to ensure that agricultural enterprises remain economically viable. 50 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 ■ Extraction industries are associated with different land management issues than farms and forests; these are included here for lack of a better location at this time. These nonrenewable resources are used to produce building materials (such as concrete and railroad ballast), to use as landscaping materials, and to maintain roads. The earth resources in Chittenden County that currently are commercially viable are sand (over two billion cubic yards available) and gravel (430 million cubic yards available). While these resources are limited they play an important role in our land development practices and economy and it is important to manage them carefully. Key Indicators Use Value Appraisal Enrollment: UVA—a State program allowing land to be taxed based on its income producing potential from agriculture or forestry. The Annual Reporting should include reason for withdrawal, if possible. (Source: UVA program and the USGS National Land Cover Data) o In 2010, 66,411 acres and 789 parcels of UVA Forest Land enrollment. o In 2010, 16,895 acres and 311 parcels of UVA Agricultural Land enrollment. o From 2001 to 2006, 514 acres or 1% of agricultural land was converted to development -. O 140 acres or .07% of forest were converted to development from 2001 to 2006. y The number of farms has increased, while the acreage of farmland has decreased. NUMBER OF FARMS OF DIFFERENT SIZES IN CHITTENDEN COUNTY, 1987 - 2007 Farm Size 1987 to 2007 Change 1987 1997 2007 (Acres) Number Percent 1,000 or More 7 10 11 4 57.14% 500 to 999 44 23 25 -19 -43.18% 180 to 499 140 123 203 63 45.00% 50 to 179 134 137 178 44 32.84% 10 to 49 99 123 143 44 44.44% Under 10 28 40 81 53 189.29% Total 452 456 641 189 41.81% SOURCE: U.S. Census of Agriculture, 1987, 1997 and 2007. ACRES DEVOTED TO DIFFERENT USES ON CHITTENDEN COUNTY FARMS, 1987 - 2007 Use* 1987 1997 2007 1987 to 2007 Change 2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTUREIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 51 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 Acres Percent Cropland 53.177 42,188 31,161 -22,016 -41.40% Woodland 31,925 28,853 34,744 ' 2,819 8.83% Other(including pasture) 12,967 12,314 17,477 4,510 34.78% Total 98,069 83,355 83,382 14,687 -14.98% SOURCE: U.S.Census of Agriculture, 1987, 1997 and 2007 Cropland-includes land planted for Christmas tree production and short rotation woody crops. Woodland includes natural or planted woodlots or timber tracts and cutover and deforested land with young growth that has or will have value for wood products and land in tapped maple trees. > The average property taxes per acre for farms in Chittenden County increased 82 percent (adjusted for inflation) from 1987 to 2007, from $18.60 to $33.86. (Source: U.S. Census of Agriculture) The net farm income per acre for farms in Chittenden County increased from $102.49 in 2002 (adjusted for inflation) to $110.17 in 2007 (compared with Vermont's increase from $93.93 to $129.20). However the income trends vary depending on the product: there were decreases in the value of "dairy, cattle and calves" and "all other farm products" and increases (in some cases dramatic) in the value of other types of farm products (farm income from products made on the farm such as cheese or for services provided on the farm such as farm equipment repair). (Source: U.S. Census of Agriculture) .19 net acres of agricultural and natural resource land lost annually to development per new Resident (requested by Partnership for Sustainable Communities) (Source: National Land Cover Data, 2006, U.S. Census Population 2001- 2006) For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions For Additional Information/Resources • See Natural Systems Analysis Report; Farm to Plate Annual Reporting; Informing Land Use Planning and Forestland Conservation Through Subdivision and Parcelization Trend Information — Vermont Natural Resources Council, September 2010; The Action Plan of the VT Working Landscape Partnership. Ilia2.4 ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT Broad Goal: Make public and private investments in the built environment to minimize environmental impact, maximize financial efficiency, optimize social equity and benefits, and improve public health. INTRODUCTION: The built environment comprises the physical buildings of the County combined with supporting infrastructure necessary for travel, waste, water, and energy for living, working, and playing. Strategic investments to Chittenden County's built environment and development centers is necessary for promoting a high quality of life that is hinged on economic development, affordability, and environmental stewardship. Significant regional planning for sidewalks, housing, transit choice, and cultural and recreational resources can make more homes and businesses in our centers the key to allowing growth to happen more sustainably. Other vital infrastructure updates are also needed to support livability in these centers. Sewer capacity and water supply investments are necessary to accommodate new residents and employers. Renewable energy sources for buildings and alternatives to driving need to be planned to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and decrease carbon emissions. This section focuses on the promotion of higher density, mixed use development in Center, Metro, Suburban, Enterprise, and Village Planning Areas — while de-emphasizing development outside of these areas. These actions would result in reduced energy for transportation and land use by promoting increased car pooling, pedestrian/bicycle travel, availability of transit, reduction in vehicle miles traveled, and the need for smaller homes that maximize efficiency. Consolidating households and employers in these Planning Areas also makes for providing other infrastructure more efficient. A description of the Planning Areas can be found in Chapter 3 on page xx. 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 53 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.5.1 LAND USE Land Use Pattern Goal: Encourage future growth in the Center, Metro, Enterprise, Suburban, and Village Planning Areas to maintain Vermont's historic settlement pattern and respect working and natural landscapes. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • Over the past 60 years development trends, zoning regulations, and consumer preference have shifted growth away from the metropolitan areas around Burlington, to more suburban and rural locales. This shift has resulted in scattered development at low densities that consume large amounts of land, high infrastructure costs, and little opportunity for social interactions. • Overall, Chittenden County is moving in the right direction of developing and implementing policies that encourage more growth in these areas. As of 2012, Chittenden County includes 10 Villages, 2 Downtowns, 2 Growth Centers, 2 New Town Centers, and 1 New Neighborhood that are part of the State Designation Program that promotes smart growth principles. Recent studies and surveys indicate that households are choosing to live in areas with shorter commute times, nearby shops and services, and more transit options. This growing demand indicates that the small lot and attached accessible housing stock may be in short supply. • Forest and agricultural land fragmentation and increased parceling have meant that the number of parcels in rural areas has increased while their size has decreased, diminishing their economic viability, scenic, and the ecological services they provide. • Future land-based opportunities for farming and forest-based products, recreation and tourism may become more limited as suitable open land becomes less available. This possibility has far reaching consequences for the future of Vermont's local and tourism economies. • There are over 4,400 designated historic sites in Chittenden County (over 2,500 in Burlington alone) and over 80 designated historic districts (see historic resources map here: ;rpcvt.orq/t nhLEerlden ountvV ). • A sustainable society operates without contributing new contaminants to the environment, but also cleans up old contaminants and returns those lands into productive use. Contamination impairs the environment, poses risks to human health, and discourages productive use or reuse of the property. Of 702 Chittenden County sites with reported contamination, 476 (68%) have completed corrective action (VT DEC Waste Management Identification Database). Key Indicators ➢ Percent of New Structures in Areas Planned for Growth: 1950 —2010 54 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 90% ■Areas Planned for Growth •Rural Areas 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% ■ 0% ..,.. 1951-1970 1971-1990 1991-2005 2005-2010 2035 Target Source: 1951-2005, UVM Year Built Data,2005-2010,VT e911 board esites,2035 Target,CCRPC The best available data at the time of this report related to e911 structures. Going forward, CCRPC seeks to regularly track dwelling units, employees, and non-residential square footage to better represent the development that is occurring in the County. ➢ Development Density by Planning Area, 2010 Houses per Sq.Mile ■Employees per Sq.Mile 6,124 2,259 1,1891,322 1,328 513 187 309 323 18 31 8 • ; fi Center Metro Suburban Village Enterprise Rural Source:CCRPC Housing Data,2010 and Employment Data,2010 and Planning area layers For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions For Additional Information/Resources • See Historic Development and Future Land Use Transportation Analysis Report 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 55 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.5.2 HOUSING Housing Goal: Increase the opportunities for safe, decent, energy efficient, affordable, accessible and fair housing for all types of households in diverse neighborhoods. Key Issues/Trends/Insights ■ Adequate and affordable housing is central to a sustainable community. A healthy community is made up of households with a variety of incomes and affordable housing is needed to satisfy residents' wide range of needs. Lack of affordable housing contributes to many social stresses, including homelessness. ■ The financial burden of paying a mortgage, homeowner's insurance, property taxes, utility expenses and other housing fees is unaffordable when these costs consume more than 30% of the household's income. Further, paying more than half of income on housing expenses creates a severe strain on a household's budget. These households are at much higher risk of foreclosure, eviction, homelessness, and frequent moving—all of which harm residents and the community. Approximately 4,000 owner households and 6,000 renter households living in Chittenden County pay more than half of their incomes for housing expenses. Cost burdens are highest for the lowest income residents, especially those living on fixed incomes or public assistance and those working at low-wage jobs. ■ Approximately 500 people in Chittenden County were homeless during the January 2011 one-night count, clearly demonstrating gaps in the access to the types of housing options and services that could have kept these people housed. ■ Some Chittenden County residents do not have equal access to housing opportunities. Members of the county's growing population of non-White residents, residents with disabilities, and single-parent families are more likely to experience poverty and less likely to become homeowners than other types of households. Insufficient housing options for all residents, regardless of their race, disability status, or membership in other protected classes, help prevent those residents from reaching their potential as contributing community members. ■ Nearly 60% of the county's housing stock was built before 1980—when lead-based paint was widely used, when most home insulating/heating/energy technology was inefficient, and when building and accessibility codes did not yet accommodate all types of residents. (Note: Lead was banned from paint in 1978.) ■ More than 11% of Chittenden County residents commute 25 or more miles to work—with potential adverse effects on both the health of the driver and the environment. In addition, with the exception of some neighborhoods in Burlington and Winooski and a few other Census blocks in the county, the vast majority of the county's working residents pay more than 45% of their income for the combined cost of housing and transportation. ■ The county's population is expected to continue growing, albeit at a slower pace than in the past decade. Between 2010 and 2015, demand for additional owner homes is likely to be lower than prior levels of home building in the county. However, demand for renter homes is predicted to increase. Tools to ensure adequate housing supply for renters include 56 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 renovation and conversion of existing buildings as well as new construction. Looking further out roughly 4,000 additional housing units (rental and ownership combined) will be needed from 2010 to 2020. Key Indicators ➢ % households spending over 30% of income on housing expenses (owners and renters). % households spending over 30% of income on housing expenses 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Chittenden County Vermont Owners Chittenden County Vermont Renters Owners Renters 2005-2009 2006-2010 Source:US Census-ACS downloaded from www.housingdata.org ➢ # of new housing units by tenure (rental and ownership) and by Municipality. Start with a baseline of 2010 housing units (for each rental and ownership) and include a column of the increased number of units added in 2011 (for each rental and ownership). 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 57 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan- 1 1/14/2012 o� % change change , ,_ ._ owners renters Owners Renters Owners Renters Chittenden 37,291 19,161 40,310 21,517 8% 12% County Bolton 317 51 422 65 33% 27% Buel's Gore 6 0 7 5 17% 500% Burlington 6,590 9,295 6,553 9,566 -1% 3% Charlotte 1,085 202 1,189 230 10% 14% Colchester 4,354 1,790 4,509 1,805 4% 1% Essex 5,418 1,595 5,955 1,932 10% 21% Hinesburg 1,302 294 1,468 269 13% -9% Huntington 617 75 668 85 8% 13% Jericho 1,551 200 1,677 204 8% 2% Milton 2,897 436 3,237 652 12% 50% Richmond 1,209 295 1,298 288 7% -2% St. George 226 38 222 53 -2% 39% Shelburne 2,107 525 2,225 655 6% 25% South 4,351 1,981 5,186 2,801 19% 41% Burlington Underhill 974 81 1,031 102 6% 26% Westford 657 68 682 75 4% 10% Williston 2,475 446 2,837 677 15% 52% Winooski 1,156 1,788 1,144 2,053 -1% 15% Source: Census 2010, Summary File 1. v Metro and non-metro vacancy rate for renters. A healthy vacancy rate needs to be based on local circumstances, and long-term local averages (setting a national standard is not effective). The target for Chittenden County may be somewhere between 3% and 5%, though more analysis would need to be done to find a more accurate target.. In Burlington and Winooski the average rental housing vacancy rate has been well below this, at 1.5% from 2004 to 2011 (Source: VHFA Allen and Brook report). For the suburban areas the average rental housing vacancy rate from °mom r- 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis . DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11/14/2012 2004 to 2011 is 2.6% - still lower than a healthy rate but not as low as Burlington and Winooski (Source: VHFA Allen and Brook report). • Months of inventory for Condos and Single Family Homes. A healthy housing market is one in which housing units for ownership are on the market for no more than 6 months. The average for condos from 2004 to 2010 has been 4.4 months; and the average for single-family homes from 1998 to 2010 has been 5.1 months. However, in 2008 (at the beginning of the recession) the single-family housing units were on the market for 9.6 months. More recently, this has been trending back in the right direction. (Source: VHFA Allen and Brook report) • Homeless at point in time, 3 year average. Average from 2008 to 2011 is 497. Source: Chittenden County Continuum of Care (Burlington CEDO),Increased inventory of affordable rental housing. As of 10/22/12 there were 120 properties and 4,520 subsidized units. Source: Vermont Directory of Affordable Rental Housing (www.housingdata.org/doar ). For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions For Additional Information/Resources • See Housing Analysis Report Analysis Report 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTjChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 59 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.5.3 TRANSPORTATION Transportation Goal: Provide accessible, safe, efficient, interconnected, secure, equitable and sustainable mobility choices for our region's businesses, residents and visitors. Key Issues/Trends/Insights ➢ Congestion is worsening with potential negative consequences on economic development, the environment and human health. ➢ The 2008-2009 Scenario Planning Process undertaken by the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization resulted in a clear surveyed preference for future growth to be concentrated into higher density, mixed use centers —this preference is also demonstrated in the policy direction outlined in municipal plans and ordinances throughout the county. Directing transportation investments to serve mobility and accessibility in compact settlements will result in a more cost effective and efficient transportation system. ➢ Continued low-density development in rural areas will increase Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) and likely increase potentially harmful air pollutants and greenhouse gases. ➢ Higher fuel prices will lead to an increase in the percentage of household income needed to meet transportation expenses; rural residents are disproportionately impacted by household transportation costs. ➢ Some population segments—youth, the elderly, minorities, refugees, the poor— lack access to viable public and private transportation options. The lack of safe, reliable, and complete connections within the transportation system and between transport modes reduces access to employment, social, economic, and recreation opportunities; and limits access to basic needs by means other than a personal vehicle. ➢ More robust investment in transportation options—transit, walking/biking, carsharing and ridesharing — could reduce congestion, vehicle miles traveled, use of single occupancy vehicles, social exclusion, and could improve public health, and enhance the economic well- being of our residents, businesses and visitors. ➢ While access to public transit is widely available in the region's more urbanized areas, there are days and times when service is not available; some suburban and most rural populations lack access to transit. ➢ Roadway condition of over half of the arterial highway mileage in Chittenden County is rated poor or worse. Compounding our poor roadway conditions and inadequate investment, transportation funding in general is overly reliant on the state and federal gas taxes which are decreasing in value as inflation lowers purchasing power and revenues decline due to improving vehicle fuel efficiency and fewer VMT. ➢ Transportation costs exceed our capacity to maintain, operate, and improve our current system. Nor do we have adequate funds needed to grow transit, walking/biking, and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs. The prospect of less funding in a time of increasing transportation investment need is a worrisome trend and needs to be addressed. ➢ The MTP must be fiscally constrained to the funding anticipated for investment in the planning horizon through 2035. The following chart outlines the funds anticipated to be available for the next 25 years. The chart highlights the fact that we will not be able to afford everything that may be needed and that investments will need to be selected which promote future sustainability. 60 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Estimated Transportation Funding for Chittenden County: 2010 - 2035 COSTS in Millions (2010$) Estimate of future funds $1,177 Cost to maintain/preserve the transportation system $754 Committed projects (TIP and Circ Alternatives) $113 Total available to address new transportation needs $310 Estimated cost of anticipated new projects (the sum of all items on the $849 MTP Project List - Transportation Need) Funding deficit (Transportation Need minus Total Available) -$54r • Some population segments — youth, the elderly, minorities, refugees, the poor— lack access to viable public and private transportation options. • While our rate of driving alone to work increased by 36% between 1980 and 2000 (to 76% of all work trips), in more recent years this trend has shown improvement to 71% in 2010. We've also seen a nearly 60% increase in transit ridership the past decade. Vehicle Miles of Travel (VMT) per person is also on the decline, down 8% between 2000 and 2010. It is imperative that we maintain these positive recent trends in order to reduce congestion, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and more efficiently utilize all of our transportation resources. • The 2008-2009 Scenario Planning Process undertaken by the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization resulted in a clear surveyed preference for future growth to be concentrated into higher density, mixed use centers — this preference is also demonstrated in the policy direction outlined in municipal plans and ordinances throughout the county. Directing transportation investments to serve mobility and accessibility in compact settlements will result in a more cost effective and efficient transportation system. Key Indicators Percent of workers commuting by non-Single Occupant Vehicle (SOV) mode (walk, bike, transit, carpool, telecommute). Recent data suggests the reversal of a negative trend going back at least 30 years and probably longer. 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 1 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Chittenden County Commute To Work Mode 2008-2010 ACS 3 Year Data ■Drove Alone 2000 Census (Singlec Occupant Oupant Vehicle-SOV) ■Non-SOV (Carpool,Walk, 1990 Census Bicycle,Public Transportation, Work at Home, and Other Means) 1980 Census 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% VMT Per Capita. Less driving per person can have positive environmental, transportation, economic, health and social impacts. Our most recent data may portend a positive trend. Chittenden County Vehicle Miles of Travel Per Capita 30 •-• Q u 25 O. i 20 ra 46 15 N Cad a 10 u 5 0 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source: US Census and VT Agency of Transportation For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions For Additional Information/Resources 62 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 • See Historic Development and Future Land Use Transportation Analysis Report and MTP Supplemental Documents, located in document appendix 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 63 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.5.4 INFRASTRUCTURE & FACILITIES Goal: Ensure adequate infrastructure and facilities (i.e. water supply, wastewater treatment, stormwater treatment, broadband coverage and solid waste recovery and recycling) to support areas planned for growth while conserving resources. Key Issues/Trends/Insights • The majority of the residents in the County get their drinking water from Lake Champlain, via two utilities: the Champlain Water District (CWD) and the City of Burlington's DPW Water Division. Combined, these utilities have 27.5 MGD (million gallons per day) capacity, with 7.8 MGD reserve capacity. This reserve capacity equates to 39,000 new homes (as a comparison there are 65,722 housing units in Chittenden County in 2010). In addition, Richmond, Hinesburg, Underhill and Jericho have smaller public water supply utilities — some of which are facing capacity and water quality challenges (Hinesburg for example). • Currently, there are 12 municipal wastewater treatment plants in the County; together they have a treatment capacity of 21 million gallons per day (MGD) (Source: State of Vermont Wastewater Management Division). As of 2010, CCRPC estimated an aggregate reserve capacity of 9MGD (this does not account for unconnected committed capacity and capacity limitations of individual facilities.). The estimated future demand for wastewater capacity in 2035 is 7 MGD. While these figures indicate that there is sufficient sewage treatment capacity to absorb anticipated growth in housing and employment county-wide this does not account for location specific limitations. Colchester, Essex Junction, Huntington, Hinesburg, Westford, and Williston were among the municipalities in need of more wastewater capacity. • Management of our storm water is critically important to maintaining and improving water quality throughout the County; however, this can be particularly challenging in our areas planned for growth where more dense development leaves less room for stormwater management. Retrofits of existing infrastructure to meet new water quality regulations in these areas are particularly costly and challenging. Storm water management is regulated at a variety of levels including EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits; VT DEC's discharge permits; and some municipalities have additional stormwater regulations and programs. Nine municipalities and three public entities are subject to MS4 permitting (a NPDES program) in Chittenden County: Burlington, Colchester, Essex, Essex Junction, Milton, Shelburne, South Burlington, Williston, Winooski, Burlington International Airport, UVM and VTrans. Amendments to the MS4 program are pending and may result in additional unfunded mandates to these municipalities. Developments over 1 acre of disturbance are subject to the VT DEC's discharge permits. • Broadband technology is widely available throughout Chittenden County: as of December 2011, approximately 99% of Chittenden County residents and 99.5% of non-residential structures (analysis included commercial, industrial, municipal structures) have access to Broadband. The federal definition of broadband is 768 kbps download/200 kbps upload speeds. It will be important to ensure that we are on par with other urban areas in the realm of number of service providers, service tiers, and affordability as the technology is constantly improving and we must keep up. Specifically, the defined broadband speeds are quite slow and we'll need to do better than that. • A sustainable society minimizes the amount of waste it generates; reuses materials; and recycles. Tons of refuse disposed in Chittenden County has been declining over the last 5 64 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 years, while the amount of recycled materials has increased. While those trends are positive, there is room for improvement. It is estimated that 27% of the municipal solid waste sent to the landfill is comprised of recyclable materials and 32% is comprised of organic materials that could be composted (Source: CSWD Estimate of the Components of Solid Waste Disposed for FY 2011). A State law passed in 2012 (House Bill 485) will help to keep us moving in the right direction as the law establishes universal recycling of solid waste and sets deadlines for when certain materials must be recycled, and therefore would be banned from trash disposal (for example, food waste must be recycled (composted) starting in 2016). Key Indicators Current Wastewater Capacity v. Capacity Needed for Growth Projections in Areas Planned for Growth Source: Waste Water Utilities (CCRPC will update) and Municipal Growth Projections. Chittenden County has the capacity to treat an additional 7 million gallons per day of wastewater. In 2035, it is estimated that the anticipated demand will be 7 MGD which is adequate capacity to accommodate 80% of the future development within the various sewer service areas. However, capacity varies for each treatment plant and some facilities may have a narrow margin of additional capacity. 16.9% of impervious area is under storm water management through operational stormwater permits countywide. Source: ANR VTDEC Stormwater Permit database, ANR's 2008 NDVI Impervious Surface Layer. 49% of the impervious area in Chittenden County is covered by the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Permit (MS4). Source: MS4 Boundary, ANR's 2008 Impervious Surface Layer. Pounds of Waste Disposed/Capita/Day for MSW (Municipal Solid Waste) and C&D (Construction Debris). 4.00 — 3.50 3.00 — 2.50 Pounds/Capita/Day MSW 2.00 Disposed Pounds/Capita/Day C&D 1.50 Disposed 1.00 0.50 0.00 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Source:Chittenden Solid Waste District,Waste Diversion Report:Calendar Years 2001-2011 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 65 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 1 1/14/2012 For Actions • See Collective Impact Strategy X,Y,Z for implementation steps For Additional Information/Resources • See the Ecological Systems topic for water quality; Broadband Action Plan; /u. _ smar - -,van ; Protecting Water Resources with Higher-Density Development. EPA, Publication #231-R-16-001;and CSWD's Annual Reports 66 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2.5.5 ENERGY Energy Goal: Reduce Chittenden County's consumption of energy' and reliance on foreign, non-renewable, energy. Improve the cost-effectiveness, efficiency and reliability of the energy production, transmission, and distribution system. Key Issues/Trends/Insights ➢ Chittenden County citizens, businesses, and industries spent about $617 million on energy in 2009 (25% of Vermont's total). Much of this money leaves the County and state immediately. This outflow of energy dollars acts as a drain on the local economy. ➢ The price of energy is forecasted to continue increasing in the future, 2 which will result in an additional burden on the County's residents and businesses, unless energy consumption can be reduced. ➢ Chittenden County has a long history of electrical and natural gas energy efficiency programs, dating back to 1990, which have provided significant energy savings and economic benefits to the state and County. These programs along with improvements in federal standards have led to a reduction in per household and per employee energy consumption of electricity and natural gas. Reduction in energy consumption directly results in a reduction in energy bills. ➢ While efficiency programs targeting electricity and natural gas have been largely successful, there is an urgent need to fund and develop similar programs for non-regulated thermal fuels and for the transporation sector. ➢ Fossil fuel combustion increases the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are the causes of global climate change. Climate change will have profound impacts on the environment, public health, infrastructure, and economy of Chittenden County. ➢ Vermont, and the County, relies heavily on fuel oil for building heat and on gasoline and diesel for transportation. Gasoline consumption has increased as more residents drive to and from work, run errands, and consume for goods. ➢ Vermont's rural nature offers challenges for the transmission and distribution of energy. It is important to maintain and develop an energy production, transmission, and distribution infrastructure in Chittenden County that is efficient, reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible. ➢ The cost of electricity is related to the distance it travels. When electricity is transmitted over long distances, a significant3 amount of electricity is lost. Improving line efficiency or encouraging distributed generation (such as locally sited small scale renewable projects) reduce losses. ➢ Every three years, Vermont Systems Planning Committee (VSPC) launches a process to update and identify constrained areas and reliability needs for the electric transmission grid4. Chittenden County has areas identified as needing improvements. ➢ Electric efficiency programs have always worked to reduce electrical demand especially during peak periods but the development of the Smart Grid will provide a powerful tool to address this Energy in this section is defined as energy used in buildings and the transportation sector unless specified otherwise 2 EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2011,release date April 2011 3 Vermont estimates that 10%is total system loss 4 http://www.velco.com/LongRange/Pages/2012Long-RangeTransmissionPlan.aspx 5 Through Section 248, regional planning agencies are notified of Public Service Board hearing regarding construction of electric transmission facilities,gas pipeline and electricity generation facilities 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 67 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 issue. Smart Grid coupled with education, behavior change, and load control technologies can help reduce peak demand and defer substation upgrades which can result in substantial cost saving. r Chittenden County has many non-fossil fuel based, renewable energy production sites owned by utilities, private parties, and municipalities. Reliable, cost effective, and environmentally sustainable energy availability is critical to support the economy and natural resources of Chittenden County. P The more widespread adoption of electric vehicles should reduce the total energy consumption in the County, due to better efficiency (an EV gets the equivalent of 100 miles/gallon). To prepare for widespread adoption of electric vehicles, charging infrastructure should be developed. In addition, policies and pricing structures to encourage off peak charging need to be considered to mitigate grid constraints. Chittenden County is home to an international airport and a National Guard base, therefore the transportation fuel consumption in the County not only includes gasoline, diesel, and compressed natural gas, but also jet fuel. Key Indicators EIA Primary Energy Consumption Estimates and Population Trend in Chittenden County 7ao 200 Energy Consumption -_-_- 180 600 I __ 160 500 I_ 140 Chittenden County Population � 120 t - 100 300 - 80 200 - 60 40 100 - 20 0 - 0 O -p ry nt < ✓p O Ipp�,, 0pp0 QTy' pO - pry opof pKo ppn p'Vp 1pp� pMp Opp1 O N N N N Source: EIA Annual Energy Outlook Total energy consumption per person (per household for the residential sector) and by sector (transportation, residential, commercial, and industrial). Reduction in consumption will lead to a reduction in energy bills, relative to what they would be without that reduction in consumption. Total Energy (MMBTU) Gallons Residential Energy per Household 89 Commercial and Industrial Energy 120 per Employee Transportation Energy per Person 51,050,943 420 4 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENT I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11/14/2012 Source: Efficiency VT, Energy Information Administration,CCRPC, UVM VT Transportation Energy Report(2009, 2010) Efficiency savings as a percent of the total energy consumed, by fuel type. Total energy consumed includes all sectors and all fuel types. 2009 2010 Electricity Savings-Efficiency Vermont (MWh) 25,406 Natural Gas Savings-Vermont Gas(MCF) 62,000 82,151 Total MMBTU of energy savings 148,685 82,151 Source: Efficiency Vermont and Vermont Gas As of 2009, 5% of energy consumed in Chittenden County is from renewable energy sources. Number and capacity of renewable energy production sites in the County (Source: VT Energy Atlas, Oct. 12, 2011) aiL Tons of Source #of sites Capacity(kW) Capacity(Thousand wood Btu) consumed Solar Photovoltaic 297 6101 Solar Thermal 42 2975 Combined systems 12 86 588 Wind 28 491 Hydro 6 Wood Thermal 9 3900 Wood Electric 2 1 50000 665760 Thermal capacity not recorded,only tons of wood consumed as a proxy for system size is available 2 McNeil Power Plant For Actions • See Chapter 3, pages x,x,x for implementation actions For Additional Information/Resources • See Energy Analysis Report 2.5 BUILT ENVIRONMENTIChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 69 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 2.6 The Positives of Now and Concerns for the Future Accolades As we look to the future, Vermont, Chittenden County, and Burlington have gained a national reputation for our high quality of life. These can be summarized by looking at some of the accolades that we have received over the past few years. For more detail, please see the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce webpage at http://www.vermont.org/AboutBurlington/accolades.aspx. 2012 -Vermont is second most peaceful place to live 2012 - Forbes: Burlington is One of America's Best Downtowns • 2012 & 2011 — Healthiest County in the US, Univ. of Wisconsin Population Health Institute County Health Rankings • 2011- Burlington ranked #1 place for guys by Men's Health • 2011-Vermont ranked #1 healthiest state by the United Health Foundation • 2011- Top 10 Cities for Outdoor Recreation - Outside Magazine • 2011- Top 10 for"Volunteering in America" • 2011- HUD's HOME Program "Door Knocker Award" for exceptional contribution to affordable housing • 2011- #1 "Top Ten Small Cities" State of Well-Being • 2011- Top 10 Real Estates Markets to Watch in 2011 - Inman News • 2010- Kiplinger's (Magazine) Best Cities 2010: Burlington, Vt. • 2010- New England's Most Enjoyed Secret- Vitality Cape Cod Magazine • 2010- Burlington, Vermont rated #2 in the best college towns survey by MSN Local Edition. • 2010- Burlington, Vermont receives Home Depot Foundation Award of "Excellence for Sustainable Community Development" • 2010- #1 Bass Fishing Capital - Outdoor Life • 2010- Prettiest Town in America - Forbes.com • 2010-Arbor Day Foundation: Tree City USA • 2010- One of Best Cities for New Jobs This Spring - Forbes.com • 2010-Top 100 Places to Live in America - RelocateAmerica.com • 2010- First Wave City- Carbon War Room • 2009 - Burlington, Vermont named the number 1 healthiest place by women • 2009 - Children's Health Magazine has named Burlington the #1 place to raise a family. • 2008 - #2 in "Greenest Small City in America" contest by Organic Gardening magazine. • 2008 -Church Street Marketplace named one of 10 Greatest Places in America by the American Planning Association. • 2008 - BusinessWeek magazine named Burlington Vermont one of the best places to raise your kids & Family Circle named South Burlington one of the 10 best towns for Families. These accolades reflect many of the positive things we see in our community and our neighbors. They highlight many of the reasons why so many of us love this community and want to keep seeing it improve for ourselves and future generations. Concerns While we celebrate the positive aspects of our community, we also owe it to our children and their children to look to the future and work on addressing problems and aspire to do better. There are 70 2.6 The Positives of Now and Concerns for the Future I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 many questions that we heard from our community reflecting real concerns for the future. These questions include: • Will my children and their children: o Be able to find good paying jobs here? o Be able to afford a home here? o Enjoy a cleaner up Lake Champlain, streams, and rivers? o Breathe cleaner air? o See and use our rural landscape, farms, and mountains? o Have more transportation options? o Have to drive twice as far and long to get to their jobs? o Want to live in this community? o Be part of an equitable community? o Retain our small town neighborliness? o Be healthier? o Be better educated and successful? These questions reflect many of the concerns that were identified in developing Chapter 2. These concerns require improvement to realize our goals. These are not prioritized, but rather follow the outline of the topics as discussed in Chapter 2 above. We should all understand that these concerns are based on today's assessment of trends rooted in our current values and will change over time; either as we improve in certain areas or as our values shift over the generations. The current concerns are grouped by broad goal area below. Natural Systems 1. Habitat Loss - We are experiencing a loss of habitat quality and quantity due to roads, invasive species and development patterns. 2. Unstable Rivers - River corridors are unstable due to alterations and encroachments leaving us susceptible to costly damage from flood events 3. Non-point Source Water Pollution - While we have addressed point sources of pollution, non-point sources are still contributing pollutants to our water bodies. Disparities in educational results, health, incarceration, and income exist for people of color and low income populations. 4. Climate Change - Climate change is a global phenomenon with local impacts. Our region's climate is already changing; warmer, wetter conditions are expected to increase this century. These changes will adversely impact forest and aquatic communities, water quantity and quality, public health, agriculture, winter sports businesses, and buildings and infrastructure in flood and fluvial erosion hazard areas. 5. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions - Chittenden County emits 1,177,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases (measured as carbon dioxide equivalents). Fossil fuel consumption for transportation and heating accounts for almost 88% of our emitted greenhouse gases. 2.6 The Positives of Now and Concerns for the FutureiChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 71' DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11/14/2012 6. Climate Health Impacts - We can expect hotter summers that increase the frequency and severity of heat-stress illness and vector-borne diseases (such as Lyme disease, West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis). Social Community 7. Tobacco Use and Substance abuse - Rates of tobacco use have decreased from 20% in 1999 to 13% in 2008. Despite this significant decrease, exposure to second-hand smoke is high among youth and adults. Rates of substance abuse are increasing; meanwhile access to mental health services is inadequate. 8. Obesity - The prevalence of obesity is uniformly high across economic groups and has increased dramatically over the last 20 years. 9. Emergency Preparedness — Improvements need to be made in the areas of emergency planning, training, and operations centers. 10. Kindergarten Readiness - To improve kindergarten readiness..., look at what Building Bright Futures is doing. Act 62 review?To improve 3rd grade reading, assist schools by involving United Way agencies and the business community with a focus on the achievement gap for low income students. 11. Workforce Development—We must support and expand existing programs to address labor pool and training gaps. We must also design a specific approach to assist current workforce education and training partners to assure that the required skill sets and workplace readiness skills are widely available to business.. 12. Inclusion — There is a concern that members of underrepresented communities are not well connected and involved with governmental decisions. This includes the concern about their knowledge of the different government processes. 13.Aging — There is a general concern that we focus on and address the aging of our community and what that means for us in the future. Economic Infrastructure 14. Job Opportunities —We need to keep encouraging our existing and new employers to grow for our children to have employment opportunities here and not have to leave to find work. 15. Manufacturing Diversity - Our manufacturing sector lacks diversity leaving us susceptible to changes. 16. Industrial Sites - There is a lack of industrial sites to accommodate future economic growth. 17. STEM - We have a strong innovation economy, but increasing the labor force skills in science, technology, engineering and technology (STEM) remains a high need. 18. Housing Cost - Decreasing the cost of housing would help in attracting workers to our region. 19. Working Lands Loss- Sustaining our working lands is a challenge because there is greater monetary value in developing land than maintaining it as a farm or productive forest; in addition some local products are undervalued (i.e. milk, saw timber). Built Environment 7 2.6 The Positives of Now and Concerns for the Future I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 20. Sprawl - Over the last 60 years development trends, zoning regulations, and consumer preference have shifted growth away from metropolitan areas around Burlington to more suburban and rural locales resulting in large amounts of land consumed and high infrastructure costs. This trend seems to have reversed since 2005 and we need to stay on this new course. 21. Lack of Rental Housing —An increase of 1,000 rental housing units is needed in the county by 2015 to maintain a conservative vacancy rate of 1.4%. We will not reach that number based on currently approved developments. In addition, a healthier vacancy rate may be much higher to increase housing choices and lower rents, while maintaining a vibrant economy. This would result in a need much greater than 1,000 rental units by 2015. 22.Affordable Homes -An increase of 1,000 homeownership units in the county priced under $300,000 is needed by 2015 to increase housing choices and lower costs. This need is could be met through existing permitted developments, however many are not being built due to challenges with condominium financing. For the same reason as mentioned above, the 1,000 units is based on a conservative vacancy rate figure. 23. Maintenance of Existing Housing Stock—There is a need to adequately maintain existing housing stock to preserve it as a viable option for the future. 24. Supportive Housing - There is a need to increase the number of units of permanent supportive housing throughout the county in addition to Burlington. Supportive housing is a combination of housing and services intended as a cost-effective way to help people live more stable, productive lives. Supportive housing is widely believed to work well for those who face the most complex challenges—individuals and families who have very low incomes and/or disabilities, and/or may suffer from substance abuse, addiction or alcoholism, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, or other serious challenges to a successful life 25. Mode Share - While our rate of driving alone to work increased by 36% between 1980 and 2000 (to 76% of all work trips), in more recent years this trend has shown improvement to 71% in 2010. We've also seen a nearly 60% increase in transit ridership the past decade. Vehicle Miles of Travel (VMT) per person is also on the decline, down 8% between 2000 and 2010. It is imperative that we maintain these positive recent trends in order to reduce congestion, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and more efficiently utilize all of our transportation resources. 26. Road System & Funding - Roadway condition is rated poor or worse for over half of the arterial highway mileage in Chittenden County. The costs associated with maintaining and improving this infrastructure exceeds our fiscal capacity to fully address it. Nor do we have adequate funds needed to grow transit, walking/biking, and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs. Compounding our poor roadway conditions and inadequate investment, transportation funding in general is overly reliant on the state and federal gas taxes which are decreasing in value as inflation lowers purchasing power and revenues decline due to improving vehicle fuel efficiency and fewer VMT. The prospect of less funding in a time of increasing transportation investment need is a worrisome trend and needs to be addressed. 27. Energy Conservation - Vermont and Chittenden County lead the nation with respect to initiatives that support efficiency and renewable energy, however, more efficiency programs 2.6 The Positives of Now and Concerns for the FutureiChapter 2 - Regional Analysis 73 • DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 are needed for non-regulated thermal fuels and energy for transportation to keep costs down and to reduce GHG emissions. 28. Renewables Siting - With the rise of renewable energy sources, municipalities are struggling with being left out of the conversation and are making specific recommendations within their Town Plans regarding how they want the Public Service Board to review petitions in their Towns. 29.Water and Wastewater— In order for municipalities to implement their plans for future growth in their urban or village improved water and wastewater services (both on-site, community systems, and sewer) are often necessary, including financial assistance. Colchester, Essex Junction, Huntington, Hinesburg, Westford, and Williston were among the municipalities raising this concern. 30. Stormwater Investments — Municipalities are committed to making improvements in storm water quality, but are concerned about the costs and how to pay for them. We are at a time of choice. Do we allow things to keep going the way they are? Do we take steps to achieve the best future possible? See Chapter 3 for strategies and actions to address these concerns. 74 2.6 The Positives of Now and Concerns for the Future I Chapter 2 - Regional Analysis DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 11/14/2012 CHAPTER 3 - ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation 3.0 Introduction Vermont is expected to add about 60,000 people by 2030 (US Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/projectionsagesex.html). This is a very small part of the population growth in the entire US, but will be significant for Vermont. If the past is any indicator, Chittenden County will feel the pressure from a majority of that growth. Woodes and Poole estimates that we will see about 50,000 new residents by 2035. How we prepare for this growth will have tremendous implications for our future. The ECOS Project has attempted to be very broad and inclusive in both the process of developing this plan and in comprehensively addressing the major issues within the Chittenden County community. We have developed a vision, principles and goals in Chapter 1. We have analyzed our community in relation to these goals and identified areas of concern in Chapter 2. Having identified areas of concern we now need to focus on the strategies and actions that will have positive impact. This is the focus of Chapter 3. The process leading up to this plan identified public preferences for future growth. The vision; principles, and goals highlight these preferences, tying the public process to a guide for future decisions. Because of broad public participation, the planning process provides local leaders with a basis for action. Each goal could be implemented in a variety of ways to address local needs and challenges and to enhance the region as a whole. The Plan becomes reality as the public, private and non-profit organizations apply the principles in the incremental choices they make over time leading us to collective solutions. This Chapter summarizes the scenario planning effort that establishes the basis for implementation and the recommended high priority strategies and actions for achieving the future that we all want. 3.1 Scenario Planning Review - Choices for the Future From 2008 to 2010, CCRPC (CCMPO at the time) conducted a scenario planning process to analyze land use patterns that either follow trend development, or deviate from it by concentrating development in our centers and villages, or deviate from it to increase density in the Burlington area. These land use scenarios coupled with various transportation alternatives helped stakeholders focus their discussions on various options to improve long term sustainability. This effort incorporated substantial public input (over 900 people participated in our workshops and follow up survey) to increase our understanding of the community's broad range of concerns and aspirations for the future with particular focus on our development patterns and transportation system. Please see the Chittenden County Historic Development and Future Land Use/Transportation Analysis report ( ujeut.curriidridiy : ) for more information. Land Use Scenarios 3.0 IntroductionIChapter 3 — EGOS Plan Priorities & Implementation 75 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 This scenario planning effort resulted in a recommended Land Use Plan and strategy that mirrors the plans adopted by the municipalities in the region and is consistent with the State's legislated goal to "plan the development so as to maintain the historic settlement pattern of compact village and urban centers separated by rural countryside" (24 VSA 4302(c)(1)). Those local Land Use Plans are reflected in the regional Future Land Use Planning map. The recommended future regional Land Use Plan seeks to have 80% of our future growth happen in the 15% of the county that has existing infrastructure and services. This percentage reflects our historic distribution of development prior to 1970. From 1970 to 2005, the percentage of development in our urban center and villages decreased to about 65%. From 2005 to 2010, that trend reversed and we again achieved 80% of new development in our urban center and villages. What are the implications of achieving this development pattern? According to our scenario planning analysis, if we concentrate future homes and jobs in our currently existing and planned communities which make up 15% of Chittenden County's land area, we will: • Only use 25 square miles of land (4.7% of the total County) within and adjacent to currently developed urban center and villages. • Have more jobs and housing located in our urban and village centers, • Save time spent sitting in afternoon traffic, • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 tons per day, • Potentially triple transit ridership If we continue on the path that we were on from 1970 to 2005, we will: • Use 99 additional square miles (18.5% of the total County) of our rural landscape for housing and jobs, • Increase the pressure on neighboring counties to absorb demand for homes thereby increasing driving • Spend more time in traffic congestion, • Increase greenhouse gas emissions, • Not have as many transit riders Transportation Scenarios This regional Land Use Plan scenario was then used to evaluate contrasting alternative transportation scenarios. The details of these scenarios and their results can be found in the Chittenden County Historic Development and Future Land Use/Transportation Analysis report ( cosDroiect.com/anal,- ). The components of the three transportation scenarios are repeated here for reference, including rough cost estimates. 76 3.1 Scenario Planning Review—Choices for the Future I Chapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation • , DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Scenario Name Scenario Elements 1. Basic Transportation/ This is the existing transportation system plus permitted projects— Constrained Funding those identified in the MPO'S Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)that have also completed permitting. Not included are major Approx. $114 million road projects such as the CIRC or Champlain Parkway(Southern Connector), both of which have not completed the permitting process. 2. Energy • All of#1 above, plus... conservation/Social • Transit intensive—full implementation of CCTA's 2010 Transit equity Development Plan (TDP)- More services to more places more frequently Approx. $550-767 million • CCMPO Bike/pedestrian Plan build out—More sidewalks, shared use paths and on-road bike lanes • Transportation Demand Management — Employer incentive programs to encourage transportation alternatives (similar to CATMA but more widespread around the county), implementation of extensive park and ride facilities per 2011 CCMPO Park& Ride Plan • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) improvements to reduce delays on key highways and provide better experiences for transit users. • Passenger and commuter rail -Connecting North, East and South • Expanded Carshare—to less urban locations • A ten-fold increase in the per-mile operating costs for automobiles reflecting an assumption of a significant increase in fuel and energy costs. 3. Enhanced Road • All of#1 above plus... Capacity • Full Circumferential Highway • Champlain Parkway Approx. $500-693 million • Three lanes on 1-89 from the proposed Circ Interchange in Williston East of Exit 12 to the proposed Circ Interchange in Colchester north of Exit 16 (Colchester US RT 7). • New 1-89 exits at VT 116(Hinesburg Rd)and W. Milton Rd • Colchester Exit 16 upgrades (double-crossover diamond) • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) improvements to reduce delays on key highways and provide better experiences for transit users. • Williston Grid Streets • Local connectors from official town maps • Other potential capacity increases on arterial highways in identified congested areas What are the results from the analysis of scenarios compared to the Basic Transportation alternative? If we invest in additional road capacity we will: 3.1 Scenario Planning Review— Choices for the FutureiChapter 3— ECOS Plan 77 Priorities & Implementation + s DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 • have the highest amount of travel on our roads • gain a small reduction in greenhouse gas emissions • not increase our transit usage • decrease PM traffic congestion by 25-30% • spend about $400 million more If we invest in the energy conservation/social equity scenario investments we will: • reduce travel on our roads by 15-20% • decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 20% • increase daily transit usage by 1 ,000% • decrease PM traffic congestion by 30-35% • spend about $450 million more These future scenarios are starkly different from one another, vastly different than past historical transportation investment strategies, and unlikely to proceed in the manner outlined in the Scenario exercise. The results from this exercise, however, lay the groundwork for our transportation implementation strategies and actions that are identified in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) components of this document (see section XXX) which combine those elements of the scenarios outlined above into a more balanced and sustainable future transportation program. The program is rooted in both the ECOS goals and the reality of existing transportation funding streams. The transportation projects are prioritized based on funding category taking into consideration the ECOS Criteria (see section xxx). In the next section, we look at the recommended strategies and actions to achieve our goals. 3.2 High Priority Strategies, Actions & Partners Given the projected growth in our region and the challenges we already know we face, there are no easy answers. The challenges are multi-faceted and often inter-related. For this reason, we are breaking from discussing issues by topic and focusing on comprehensive, cross-cutting solutions in order to achieve a healthy, inclusive and prosperous community. Collective impact is the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific problem. These sectors include the public (state, municipal and regional), business, and non-profit. If We need to work we do this well, we can achieve improved outcomes without the need together to achieve for additional public expenditures. The ECOS Project will be collective impact implemented through this collective impact approach and is structured in the following way: 1. Strategies - Eight (8) broad, high priority, cross-cutting, strategic implementation measures. This list is not meant to be exhaustive or to undermine any steps currently underway to effect positive change, but to focus our 5 year implementation efforts. ? : 3.2 High Priority Strategies, Actions & Partners I Chapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & _ Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 2. Actions - Under each strategy is a list of general actions identifying the method in which the strategy will be achieved. The actions address the concerns of the community (see end of Chapter 2). Many of these are not new ideas however, they may need additional commitment or additional partners to achieve the desired outcomes. 3. Projects - The ECOS Project List in Appendix X (under development) includes specific projects proposed for implementation. These implementation projects are each directly related to the general actions. The ECOS Project List includes details regarding the Lead Partner, other partners, expected start date, and estimated costs, and funding sources. Together, this three tiered implementation approach serves as a strategic plan for CCRPC, GBIC, and ECOS partners for the next 5 years. CCRPC will adopt the actions and projects to which they are a party into their annual Unified Planning Work Program and report progress each year. It is important to note that when implementing actions at the municipal level we must acknowledge the uniqueness of each community and resist a blanket application. While this implementation approach is collective in that many partners are needed to participate, it is also collective in that no one piece will bring success without the others. For example, it will be difficult to achieve greater mobility, accessibility, affordability and health without concentrating development in our areas planned for growth. Further, we can't concentrate our growth without providing adequate infrastructure in oP�e Heaithy F those areas. Visually, these \�ry2ea��at•on VibranrP'L'iro collective, inter-relationships are ,ea ?;01 p,rts HoUsin pi to," described in this circle of prosperity. a \��<` goAt�o� kQJ ...attract, retain and support... which we CIRCLE OF invest to have... PROSPERITY o "' ���, it, 7q �0 3 Oyu (1;5 Strjd forCe del OQQ�\\Q 4! QJ ee dy6N ease which o, Jobs increase... Pne irs 3.2 High Priority Strategies, Actions & PartnerslChapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & 79 Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 1 1/14/2012 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. Economic development is about building a community's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic well-being of residents. Providing access to good jobs that can support an adequate standard of living for all residents of a region or community; continuous and sustainable improvements in the internal functioning of the economy, where its structural underpinnings are made stronger without sacrificing long-term quality of life; and providing the means and the continuous processes to strengthen the foundation of our communities. Actions 1. Retain, develop, and attract high wage, value adding employers — The primary goal of any economic development strategy is retaining and growing the already existing high wage jobs within the economy. Providing support and connecting available resources is critical to ensuring that this economic base remains vital and is able to grow. The high wage sectors in which Chittenden County enjoys a competitive advantage are healthcare and social assistance; manufacturing; and professional, scientific and technical services. a. Build relationships with these employers b. Facilitate access to state resources, incentives, and programs such as the Vermont Employment Growth Incentive, Vermont Training Program, MORE... c. Market the quality of life — Chamber action 2. Identify and Permit Industrial/Manufacturing Site Locations — With only a few years supply of existing buildings or permitted sites left for high wage industrial or manufacturing businesses in the region, additional sites need to be identified and carefully planned to ensure a smooth permitting process to be ready for employers' needs for expansion or relocation in Chittenden County. The most likely employment sectors with this need are high wage, technology-based and other types of manufacturing. The best opportunities for these sites are on undeveloped land retained by current major employers. We must examine these undeveloped properties for environmentally responsible infill development opportunities considering water, waste water and transportation infrastructure; take sites through permitting. Work with ACCD to have business/industrial parks recognized as designated growth areas. Efforts should be made to educate businesses and developers on development practices that achieve a higher level of density, use less land, and provide for all modes of transportation. 3. Workforce Education and Skills Development— Promote public/private partnerships for education that connect the skills development infrastructure of our institutions of higher education, vocational programs, and technical schools with the direct needs of the Vermont workforce. If education takes place with connections to our economic needs, students and retrained workers will have their skill sets match with the employment market. 80 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 4. Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development— Coordinate and promote the providers, programs, and services already available in the State to create an economic ecosystem of resources that is easily navigable at all stages of the innovation and entrepreneurial continuum. This must aggregate and address services such as finding capital, mentorship, prototyping, commercialization, etc. a. Create or Improve a portal for small business start-ups and support services b. Encourage home-based small businesses in villages as allowed by municipal zoning. 5. Promote and Develop the Creative Economy and the Arts —Arts and the creative economy is what is drives a large and diverse amount of economic activity in our region (examples being in food, design, technology, media, craftsmanship/fabrication, arts, emergent media, music, dance, festivals, education, and recreation). This portion of the economy is fundamentally unique in that it is a significant contributor to the quality of life in our region, while also providing high value jobs. 6. Working Lands - Support value-added foods, farms and forest products through the work of Farm to Plate by VSJF and Working Lands Enterprise Board. See Strategy 4 for more details. 7. Tourism — continue good efforts in tourism including VT Convention Bureau, Lake Champlain Chamber and Lake Champlain Byways 8. Support related Strategy Actions: a. Public school education and work force training for careers demanding STEM b. Increase the affordability of housing. c. Make transportation and other investments in areas planned for growth 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 81 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.IChapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 82 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 3.2.2 Strive for 80% of new development in areas planned for growth, which amounts to 15% of our land area. The areas planned for growth are defined as the Center, Metro, Suburban, Village, and Enterprise Planning Areas (all but Rural) as displayed on the Future Land Use Map. CCRPC is committed to annually monitoring the quantity and location of development to measure our progress on concentrating 80% of new growth in these Planning Areas at a regional scale (not each municipality). CCRPC will monitor this through annual updates of its housing, employment, and commercial/industrial square footage databases and also by the State of Vermont's e911 locational database. The databases identify when a structure was built, number of dwelling units, employees, and square footage at a specific location. The major source of information for updating these databases will be gathered from CCRPC's member municipalities. Increasing investment in denser, mixed use growth areas will improve economic opportunities, housing options, transportation options and improve community health. Focusing growth in the appropriate planning areas is also a cost effective approach to increasing the supply of affordable housing, reducing energy consumption and using existing infrastructure efficiently. Actions 1. Invest in Areas Planned for Growth - a. Establish wastewater and water infrastructure in areas currently developed and/or planned for growth. b. Target reuse, rehabilitation, redevelopment, infill, and brownfield investments to the non-rural Planning Areas. c. Retrofit existing buildings to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. d. Improve design quality of high density areas. 2. Municipal Planning and Zoning - Strengthen and direct development toward areas planned for growth through infill development and adaptive reuse of existing buildings through municipal plan and bylaw revisions and state designation programs. a. Bylaws should be revised to improve the mix of uses, shared parking, support for transit, healthy options (for example walkability), energy efficiency, renewable energy and the affordability of housing. A particular emphasis is needed on providing for affordable rental housing. b. Integrate capital planning and budgeting in planning efforts to provide the right mix of infrastructure over time. Official maps can also be a useful tool to drive infrastructure improvements in the areas planned for growth. c. Health Impact Assessments (HIA) provide a tool to use at the regional, municipal, agency, and organizational level to assure that planning decisions maintain or improve the public health. Access can be improved by co-locating public facilities, in particular, medical and mental health facilities in areas with easy access via active 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 83 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.jChapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 transportation and public transit. Town health officers should be encouraged to participate in community planning efforts. 3. Affordable Housing — a. Implement incentives that encourage more housing construction including affordable and supportive housing. This could include increasing density in areas planned for growth, revising infrastructure requirements with a goal of reducing costs for developers, and possibly advocating for more Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts to help fund infrastructure improvements. b. Local ordinances impacting the maintenance of existing buildings should be reviewed and amended (if necessary) to ensure they're encouraging maintenance and retrofits of existing housing stock without adding undue cost. Increase pathways to home ownership. c. Engagement and education efforts should be undertaken with municipal officials and staff, the public, and developers to promote better development practices that achieve a higher level of density without compromising our community character— creating types of development that is appealing to residents. 4. Energy a. Reduce Energy Consumption - Education and outreach to key sectors regarding weatherization, life cycle fuel costs, and behavioral adjustments will be essential elements for reducing energy use and costs over time. b. Encourage individual homes and businesses to include electric and thermal energy efficiency in building and/or retrofitting. Weatherization should be promoted as a first step to reduce overall energy consumption before investing in renewable energy systems. c. Provide alternatives to fossil fuels for heating. d. Reduce fossil fuel consumption in the transportation sector. e. Increase Renewable Energy Generation, to support the State's goal of 90% renewable energy by 2050. i. Determine appropriate sites for community-level renewable energy generation. ii. Encourage individual homes and businesses to include renewable energy options in building and/or retrofitting. 5. State/Local Permitting Coordination & Improvement— a. Support changes to the local and state permitting process to make the two more coordinated and streamlined. Participate in the Agency of Commerce and Community Development's (ACCD) process to improve the State's designation programs designed to encourage development in appropriately planned places and discourage development outside of those areas. This program could be improved with regulatory and/or fiscal incentives. These could include expedited permitting processes for projects in areas that are a) designated for growth and b) where a 84 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 community has a robust plan, regulations and staff capacity; and reduction of redundancies such as delegation of permitting for certain local and state reviews (such as exemption from Act 250). In conjunction with delegation it may be appropriate to develop more stringent standards and thresholds for development review in rural areas. b. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure local and state regulations, bylaws and plans encourage transparency, predictability and timely review of sustainable and environmentally sound development applications. 6. Metropolitan Transportation Plan Investments — a. Adequately fund the maintenance and preservation of our existing transportation assets including roads, bridges, rail, transit, walking/biking facilities, and transportation demand management (TDM) programs and facilities. b. New transportation system investment should focus on the highest priority transportation projects as detailed in the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Project List. Specific focal areas for targeted implementation impact include: i. Expand Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)for the roadway network, and traffic and transit operations, to improve safety and reduce congestion; ii. Expand the Go! Chittenden County Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program (including park and ride facility development) to reduce single occupancy vehicle (SOV )trips iii. Increase investment in CCTA transit services to increase user accessibility iv. Expand walking and biking infrastructure to support active transportation and to provide interconnection with the region's transit system v. Develop a regional network of electric vehicle charging stations to accommodate the growth in low emissions, low energy costs electric vehicles. 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 85 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.lChapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 86 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation • DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 3.2.3 Improve the safety, water quality, and habitat of our rivers, streams, wetlands and lakes in each watershed. 1. River Hazard Protection — Develop and implement adaptation strategies to reduce flooding and fluvial erosion hazards. a. Identify problem locations - Conduct on the ground inventories and map flow and sediment attenuation locations and problematic infrastructure (undersized culverts, eroding roadways, "vulnerable infrastructure" - infrastructure subject to repeat damage and replacement, etc.). b. Revise bridge/culvert designs - Revise public works and zoning ordinances with culvert and bridge design specifications that allow for wildlife passage and movement of floodwater and debris during high intensity events. Implement culvert and bridge designs that produce stable structure in river channels (i.e. fluvial geomorphology). c. Protect River Corridors & Ensure Enforcement— Existing bylaws protect the majority of Fluvial Erosion Hazard (FEH) areas with stream setbacks and floodplain regulations; improve bylaws to protect the FEH hazard zones not currently protected and enforce these bylaws. Continue protection of river corridors including non-regulatory protection measures such as stream re-buffering and culvert and bridge replacements. d. Support non-regulatory conservation and/or preservation of vulnerable areas through public and land trust investments. 2. Non-point Source Pollution - While we have addressed point sources of pollution, non-point sources are still contributing pollutants to our water bodies. a. Assemble data —Work from existing data collected and further identify the locations that are contributing to water quality pollution such as flow, sediment, pathogen and nutrient. Where needed, conduct on the ground inventories of water quality and biological assessments (in-stream), wetlands, sub-watersheds, river corridors (buffered or not) and geomorphology. Map the existing and new data on one regional map. b. Revise Plans and Bylaws and Ensure Enforcement -- Incorporate the above data into municipal plans; establish specific statements that protect these resources; develop clear standards for how to protect these resources within zoning regulations; and initiate on-going enforcement of the regulations. Encourage low impact development techniques, and shared storm water control programs to maximize land development in areas planned for growth. Incentivize best management practices for agricultural uses. c. Implement Non-regulatory approaches - Identify and implement non-regulatory approaches to nutrient, pathogen and sediment pollution management. Under proposed MS4 permit requirements, municipalities will be developing flow restoration plans to achieve the total maximum daily load requirements for individual streams, rivers, and Lake Champlain. These plans may require additional public investment in storm water facilities or investments or actions by individual property owners. Support watershed organizations. 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 87 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.IChapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 88 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 3.2.4 Increase investment in and decrease subdivision of working lands and significant habitats, and support local food systems. 1. Habitat Preservation - Protect forests, wetlands and agricultural lands from development, and promote vegetative landscaping in urban areas in order to maintain natural habitats, natural storm water management and carbon sequestration. This will keep people and infrastructure out of harm's way and allow for natural flood attenuation areas. a. Inventory - Conduct on the ground surveys and inventories of significant habitats (include wetlands), connectivity corridors, scenic resources and locations of invasive species and map this information. Incorporate this data into municipal and regional plan text and maps and establish specific policies that address and protect these resources. b. Bylaws - Develop clear definitions of the resources to be protected and establish standards to describe how to protect these resources within zoning and subdivision regulations. c. Education - Educate engineers, developers, real estate professionals, planners and the public regarding resources and methods for restoration and protection. d. Support non-regulatory conservation and/or preservation through public and land trust investments. 2. Working Lands Implementation — Support implementation of the Farm to Plate Strategic Plan and the VT Working Landscape Partnership Action Plan. a. Bylaws- Develop clear definitions of working lands to be protected and establish standards to describe how to protect these areas within zoning and subdivision regulations. Maintain access and scale of working lands to ensure viability after subdivision in the rural landscape (including but not limited to protection of log landings of previously logged forested parcels, and zoning techniques such as fixed area ratio zoning to separate lot size from density and conservation zoning); while promoting urban agriculture in areas planned for growth. b. Infrastructure & Systems — support establishment of food processing industries, value-added product markets, workforce training, etc to help support the viability of these industries. c. Support non-regulatory conservation and/or preservation through public and land trust investments. 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 89 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.lChapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 90 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan — 1 1/14/2012 3.2.5 Increase opportunity for every person in our community to achieve optimal health and personal safety. 1. Emergency Preparedness a. Assure that all municipalities and social service organizations have well- developed emergency preparedness plans that take an all-hazards approach and thereby can be used in weather emergencies as well as biological, chemical, radiological and terrorist emergencies; address the needs of their residents/clients with access or functional needs; and address the needs or residents/clients who speak a language other than English. i. Assure an understanding of these plans by entities named in the plan as well as those supported in the plan. ii. Practice implementing the plan through regular emergency exercises. b. Train Chittenden County employers on the development, practice, and regular review of Businesses Continuity Plans and Business Recovery Plans. c. Develop systems that monitor for impacts of climate-change that would affect human health or safety. Assure communication systems are in place to share this information with entities that are best suited to engage in prevention planning and provide any necessary emergency support. 2. Basic needs — Provide the basic needs of all people through access to food and access to shelter. 3. Obesity - Create policies and environmental supports that increase access to active transportation, active recreation, and healthy foods. 4. Substance Abuse - Reduce youth access and exposure to tobacco and alcohol by restricting retail promotion of tobacco and alcohol products and designating tobacco and alcohol free outdoor public spaces and events. Further reinforce the existing work that is already happening to address youth and adult substance abuse. 5. Caregiving - Assure that older adults and people with disabilities are well cared for as needed. a. Support family members who provide care for them. b. Ensure that older adults and people with disabilities who need formal care in their daily living have access (including transportation) to the appropriate services as needed. 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 91 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.IChapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 6. Social Connectedness - Increase opportunities for residents to come together, interact, and network. a. Support organizations and businesses that bring diverse people together around a myriad of themes: arts and cultural events, recreational and leisure activities, civic engagement initiatives, educational workshops, family events, or any other activity that brings people together with a common interest. 3.2.6 Equip our residents with the education and skills that they need to thrive. Vermont is home to a public education system that has provided a significant economic benefit to students, businesses and the broader community. There is vital connection between a strong education system, the attractiveness of our region, and a healthy economy. Nonetheless, like much of the nation, Vermont faces challenges. We have an aging workforce, an increasing number of jobs that require a post-secondary degree, entrants to the workforce and college who lack the basic skills necessary to be successful and a lingering achievement gap for low income and students of color. In an environment with fewer students in the system to enter the workforce, it is an economic and community imperative that our we improve regional equity and quality to help a higher percentage of all students achieve college and career readiness than ever before. 1. Establish a Chittenden County regional initiative of all interested stakeholders to undertake the action steps below drawing upon successful nationally recognized programs in other states. (e.g. STRIVE in Cincinnati, OH) 2. Elementary Readiness and Comprehensive Student Needs — Students need to begin kindergarten and every school day after that ready to learn. a. Improve access and funding for pre-kindergarten programs so that children are ready to learn by the time they begin kindergarten. b. Ensure that our young children are nurtured by knowledgeable and capable caregivers by: increasing the capacity, knowledge and skills of parents to nurture their young children; providing families access to high quality early care and education settings; and, supporting the ability of early care and education providers to develop the skills and knowledge needed to care for children. c. Provide adequate meals to students who need them. d. Quantify the financial realities of the human service cost shift and integrate the social, health and nutritional services that schools currently provide. 3. Student-centered, Proficiency-based, Flexible Pathways to Graduation - Build the school capacity to support proficiency-based, individualized learning with access to any opportunity that will keep a student engaged in learning and achieve college and career readiness. a. Adopt the Smarter Balanced assessments, which are administered on-line and based on the Common Core Standards. These assessments provide teachers with rapid results, allowing for timely adjustments. b. Develop academic consistency across the county to alleviate disparities in education. Measure and track disparities and achievement gaps for low income and 92 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation • DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 students of color to adjust programs to achieve equitable outcomes. Eliminate climate issues and bias that disrupt learning (by race, gender, gender orientation, and class). c. Include flexible educational pathway. Develop a comprehensive advisory system within schools that includes a sustained relationship with an advisor throughout a student's career, and a personal learning plan tied to proficiency expectations for graduation rather than Carnegie units of credit. These plans may rely on traditional course-work, school choice, college courses through dual enrollment, internships for credit, on-line courses, community-based work, and service learning. d. Expand the use of on-line resources and technology such as the Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative, to which only one third of Vermont high schools have signed on and the Learning Network of Vermont (real time interactive video technology in 130 Vermont school sites). 4. Consistency Across the System - Make the changes to governance necessary to improve consistency and equity across the state. a. Adopt a common statewide school calendar that runs throughout the year to deter summer learning loss. b. Adopt a common, statewide daily schedule to allow for distance learning, flexible pathways and the ability to access courses outside of a home school district. c. Adopt a statewide teacher's contract, with allowance for regional cost-of-living disparities, and acknowledgment for innovation. d. Set a state deadline for voluntary consolidation to achieve a target number of supervisory unions and districts. If the necessary consolidation is not achieved voluntarily, the Legislature should appoint an independent panel (retired judges?) to draft a statewide slate of consolidations. Ask districts and SUs to describe what unique circumstances prevent their reorganization to serve an average of 1,500 students. Grass roots, community-driven consolidation is the healthiest and most viable course. However, reducing the number of SUs and school districts presents an opportunity to use cost savings to support innovation. 5. Career Awareness/Skill Alignment a. Develop a community needs advisory system that embeds current and anticipated college readiness and career information from colleges and employers into each district and supervisory union (SU). b. Strengthen programming in math by improving the numeracy skills and confidence of educators and adopting strong math benchmarks based on the Common Core. c. Allow Career and Technical Education Centers to be accessible either full or part- time starting in the 9th grade. d. Offer credit-bearing, structured, 40-hour internships subsequent to a 20-hour pre- employment skills segment, and tied to a high school learning outcome. Based on the Linking Learning to Life TIPS (Training Interns & Partnering for Success) model for structured internships. e. Provide training and support for people who are leaving incarceration 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 93 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.IChapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 f. To develop creative and collaboration skills, make sure there are opportunities for students to come together, interact, and network. Bring diverse people together around arts, music, cultural events, recreation, and sports activities. 6. Teacher Preparation and Ongoing Professional Development a. Support innovation in teacher preparation, training and ongoing professional development. Twenty-first century teachers are facilitators, coaches and guides who will measure student learning through proficiency, instead of serving as the exclusive distributors of classroom and course content. b. Allow for greater flexibility in licensing to accommodate transitions from career to classroom. 7. Postsecondary aspiration, continuation, retention and completion - Public higher education in Vermont is chronically underfunded relative to the rest of the nation. In the near term, additional state investment should be targeted to desired performance: enrollment of Vermonters and successful degree completion. a. Adopt a loan forgiveness program tied to the timely completion of a degree, in which a student or his/her parents are provided with a tax credit to be staggered over five years which forgives the equivalent of one year's tuition at a four-year public college. b. For students who demonstrate college or career readiness before they would otherwise finish high school, use the state's commitment to their education through age eighteen to support an additional year of learning. This funding might be applied to an apprenticeship, an experience in entrepreneurship, a certificate program, a year in college, an internship, or community service. 3.2.7 Develop financing and governance systems to make the most efficient use of taxpayer dollars and reduce costs. 1. Community Development Finance Tools— Expand and improve implementation of financing tools available to municipalities with particular emphasis on options that level the playing field between greenfield development and infill development and to help direct new investment dollars to strengthen existing neighborhoods (Smart Growth Network). This would include tax increment financing (TIF), Local Option Sales Taxes, Impact Fees, Special Assessment Districts, and capital planning and budgeting. Also support downtown tax credits, State Designated Growth Centers, Downtowns, Villages, New Town Centers, and Neighborhoods. Explore and develop other financing mechanisms for maintaining and improving infrastructure. Develop revolving loan funds for business to improve access to capital. 2. Affordable housing financing and Implementation — Increase resources for housing, which includes but is not limited to: local housing trust Funds, state housing trust fund, state housing tax credits, and strongly advocating for increased federal resources. 3. Energy Investment— Encourage property assessed clean energy (PACE) efforts, weatherization, tax incentives and other financing opportunities for investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy. 94 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 4. Transportation Financing - Encourage municipalities to implement local transportation funding programs such as Tax Increment Financing Districts, Local Option Sales Taxes, Impact Fees, Special Assessment Districts. Monitor and participate in state and federal transportation financing reform efforts such as the 2012 Vermont Legislature's Act 153, Section 40 Transportation Funding study and the Natural Resources Board/VTrans Fair Share Cost Study. 5. Clean water Financing — Monitor and participate in state financing reform such as the 2012 Vermont Legislatures Act 138 study which ANR's is leading to make recommendations on how to implement and fund the remediation or improvement of water quality. 6. Monitor State and municipal tax burdens (education, municipal services and state) - Examine the structure of government to identify opportunities for restructuring, streamlining or eliminating programs to increase efficiency, reduce costs and enhance accountability. Substantive changes to our tax policy such as expanding the sales tax, internet and cloud taxation, and migrating to Adjusted Gross Income should not be made until we have a comprehensive picture of Vermont's tax structure, including the property tax and health care financing. 7. County coordination and alignment— Coordinate and align investments and actions to advance the ECOS Plan. Monitor and report accomplishments. 8. Multi-jurisdictional services — There are a number of services that are provided on a regional or sub-regional basis. These include: Supervisory Unions, Chittenden Solid Waste District, Champlain Water District, Winooski Park District, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission, Chittenden County Transportation Authority, Chittenden County Sherriff, Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations, and 911 dispatch. Examine and advance appropriate, efficient and effective governance structures to deliver improved services (i.e. Regional Walk/Bike/Park-n-Ride) 3.2.8 Ensure that the projects and actions in all ECOS strategies assess equity impacts, and that the design and development of programs are inclusive of all and engage underrepresented populations. 1. Track and analyze inequities in all sectors. 2. Target and prioritize positive programs and investments to low opportunity places (see Opportunity Map). 3. Civic Engagement - Increase opportunities and remove barriers for civic engagement for all, including underrepresented populations. a. Provide leadership development training for all civic leaders, including underrepresented communities, to increase knowledge about and encourage service on boards and commissions. b. Increase boards' and commissions' knowledge and understanding about diverse population and importance of inclusion and representation. 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 95 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.lChapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 c. Support voter registration drives targeting all citizens, including underrepresented groups. d. Invest in the naturalization process: civics classes, connected with civic opportunities. e. Appoint members of underrepresented communities to committees, boards, and commissions. f. Key documents should be made accessible online and translated (or translation services available when necessary). g. Improve municipal and regional government organization websites to increase accessibility of English and non-English speaking community members while complying with ADA standards. 96 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase opportunities for Vermont employers and employees. I Chapter 3— ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 3.2.1 Improve and strengthen the economic systems of our region to increase 97 opportunities for Vermont employers and employees.IChapter 3 — ECOS Plan Priorities & Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 3.3 Plan Accountability and Monitoring ANNUAL INDICATORS AND PROGRESS REPORT In order to increase accountability for ECOS Plan implementation and population level results, we are proposing the following plan monitoring system. The system is intended to be tools through which the EGOS partners demonstrate results and continue to focus on collective impact. It is likely that a memorandum of understanding will have to be developed and agreed to by the EGOS partners that commit to leading the collective impact strategies and to following through in monitoring our indicators and implementation of program level actions. The population level indicators will be monitored on an annual basis in an Annual Indicator Report. This report will be guided by an EGOS Accountability Partnership made up of appointees of the CCRPC, GBIC/LCRCC, VHFA, VTrans, ANR, ACCD, Department of Public Service, UVM, United Way, Champlain Housing Trust, VNRC, Health Department - Burlington District Office, and CVOEO. This committee will be charged with reviewing the data and determining those results in which we are making positive progress and those in which more focused work is needed. 2-3 meetings are expected each year. An Indicator Technical Committee made up of staff from the above organizations will provide technical support and make recommendations to the EGOS Indicator Partnership. It is expected that this group will meet quarterly or as much as needed to produce the Annual Indicator and Progress Report each year. The first year will take more time to finalize the indicators. Program level performance measures will be determined with the adoption of this Plan and included for each high priority strategy in the form at the end of the previous section. EGOS Partners must commit to reporting their progress to the EGOS Accountability Partnership so that individual program results can be monitored and reported as part of the Annual Indicator and Progress Report. Changes in EGOS Plan strategies and actions may be made as deemed necessary. It is intended that the Annual Indicator and Progress Report be reviewed with each of the partners' boards to achieve maximum exposure and results from our collective actions. 98- 3.3 Plan Accountability and Monitoring I Chapter 3 — EGOS Plan Priorities & ''" Implementation DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 CHAPTER 4 — USING THE ECOS PLAN 4.1 ECOS Regional Plan Policies While the previous section highlighted our top needs in Chittenden County and strategies to address those needs, we recognize the need to remain steadfast on the full range of goals identified through the ECOS project. 4.1 .1 ECOS PLAN POLICIES For the purposes of complying with VT Statute (24 VSA 4348a); the ECOS Plan's goals in Chapter 2 serve as the policy statements of the ECOS Plan. The analysis reports and other work referred to in the ECOS Plan by sub-committees and other public participation processes serve to describe the various analyses and review work that was done to develop the Plan's goals, needs, strategies and actions. The following ECOS Plan maps are on the following pages: 1. Map x Future Land Use Plan 2. Map x Metropolitan Transportation Plan 3. Map x Utility and Facilities Plan 4. Map x Economic Infrastructure 5. Map x Natural Systems The above referenced Plan components will be used to guide CCRPC's Planning Advisory Committee (PAC) in determining whether the Municipal Plan's are compatible with this Regional Plan (upon request by the Municipality). Municipalities may also find it useful to consult the ECOS Criteria included in Appendix X. The ECOS Criteria were established to prioritize transportation projects (for the MTP), and the ECOS implementation grants in order to ensure that limited financial resources will go to the projects that will have a high rate of return and move many ECOS goals in the right direction. The points identified in the criteria tables were used to score and rank each of these projects. The prioritized MTP and ECOS projects list can be found in the Appendices X and Y respectively. Decisions for how we create denser mixed use communities are primarily made at the local municipal level of government. Therefore, municipalities are encouraged to apply ECOS strategies in their development decision making process. The more specific implementation of the ECOS strategies will vary throughout the County as municipalities consider their own unique needs and relationship to the region as a whole. Map x Future Land Use Plan Planning Areas The ECOS Plan uses the Planning Areas concept to identify places that share similar existing features and future planning goals. The basis for the future planning goals is municipal zoning and 4.1 ECOS Regional Plan PoliciesiChapter 4 — using the ecos Plan 99 DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 they were supported by the scenario exercise described above. The Planning Areas aim to describe the appropriate type of future growth expected in each Planning Area. The Planning Areas also aim to illustrate a regional picture of future land use policies in the County necessary to promote a regional conversation about land use in Chittenden County municipalities. The six Planning Areas are depicted on the Future Land Use Plan Map. They are Center, Metro, Suburban, Village, Rural, and Enterprise. Center Planning Areas are intended to be regional centers or traditional downtowns that serve the County and beyond and contain mix of jobs, housing, and community facilities. Center Planning Areas also contain the County's highest density and largest-scale developments. Center Planning Areas may contain a state designated New Town Center or Growth Center. Development in downtown centers primarily happens through infill development of underutilized vacant land and adaptive reuse of older structures. Whereas, development in municipal Growth Centers occurs in targeted areas that will accommodate future anticipated growth. These land uses are locally planned and managed to coexist successfully with neighborhoods and natural areas. Places within Center Planning Areas typically are served by wastewater facilities, other infrastructure, and offer a variety of transportation options, including non-motorized modes. Metro Planning Areas are areas where local zoning authorizes places to accommodate jobs and housing in a compact development pattern that supports transit service and encourages pedestrian activity and are within the sewer service area. Commercial land uses found in the Metro Planning Area are intended to serve the nearby residential area. Densities within Metro Planning Areas are typically higher than those found in the Suburban, Rural, Village, and Enterprise Planning Areas. Suburban Planning Areas are areas near a Center Planning Area, Metro Planning Area, Village Planning Area, or Enterprise Planning Area where local zoning authorizes future development to occur at compatible scales, densities, and uses with existing development. Future development should efficiently use limited land resources and infrastructure and to minimize adverse impacts on natural resources. Many parts of the Suburban Planning Area already have been developed, often in suburban styles of development. Future development and redevelopment in this Planning Area should use land resources and infrastructure investments efficiently, while minimizing adverse impacts on natural resources and protecting strategic open space. Enterprise Planning Areas are areas where local zoning authorizes a future concentration of employment uses that attract workers from the County and multicounty region. Development in these Planning Areas should have adequate wastewater capacity and access to transit. Village Planning Areas are Areas where local zoning authorizes a variety of future residential and nonresidential development at densities and scales in keeping with the character of a Vermont village. Village Planning Areas are compact areas of mixed-use activities that maintain the character of a Vermont village. This type of Planning Area is intended to serve its local surroundings as a place where people can live, work, shop and recreate. Rural Planning Areas are areas where regional and town plans promote the preservation of Vermont's traditional working landscape and natural area features. The Rural Planning Area also provides for low density development that is compatible with the needs of working lands and rI 4.1 ECOS Regional Plan Policies I Chapter 4— using the ecos Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 natural areas so that these places may continue to highlight the rural character and self-sustaining natural area systems. Map x Metropolitan Transportation Plan Map x Utility and Facilities Plan Map x Economic Infrastructure Map x Natural Systems 4.1 .2 ACT 250, SECTION 248 & SUBSTANTIAL REGIONAL IMPACT In accordance with 24 VSA § 4345a(17) a regional planning commission shall, as part of its regional plan, define a substantial regional impact, as the term may be used with respect to its region. This definition shall be given due consideration, where relevant, in state regulatory proceedings. Those proceedings are: • Act 250 — Certain proposed developments are required to obtain a permit from one of Vermont's nine District Environmental Commissions in order to establish that the proposed development will satisfy 10 criteria defined by Act 250 (10 VSA §6086). One of these 10 criteria is that the proposed development be "in conformance with any duly adopted local or regional plan or capital program." • Section 248 — Certain proposed utility facilities are required to obtain a permit from Vermont's Public Service Board to establish that the proposed facility will satisfy criteria defined by Section 248 (30 VSA §248). One of the Section 248 criteria is that the proposed facility will "not unduly interfere with the orderly development of the region with due consideration having been given to the recommendations of the municipal and regional planning commissions." • In addition, the Secretary of the Agency of Natural Resources may not issue a new Solid Waste Management Facility Certification (10 VSA §6605(c)) unless the facility is "in conformance with any municipal or regional plan adopted in accordance with 24 VSA Chapter 117." In accordance with 24 VSA §4348 (h), in the above three proceedings, in which the provisions of a regional plan or a municipal plan are relevant to the determination of any issue in those proceedings, the provisions of the regional plan shall be given effect to the extent that they are not in conflict with the provisions of a duly adopted municipal plan. To the extent that such a conflict exists, the regional plan shall be given effect it if is demonstrated that the project under consideration in the proceedings would have a "substantial regional impact." That is, the issue of whether a proposed development has a "substantial regional impact" is important only when there is a conflict between the regional plan and municipal plan. It is highly unlikely that provisions of the Chittenden County 2013 ECOS Plan (i.e. the Regional Plan) and the plans of CCRPC's member municipalities will be in conflict with one another because 4.1 ECOS Regional Plan PoliciesiChapter 4 — using the ecos Plan ." DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 • The Land Use Panel of the Natural Resources Board that oversees the Act 250 process currently interprets "conflict" between a municipal plan and a regional plan in very narrow terms: "A conflict exists when one plan allows the project but the other does not." • To determine whether a municipal plan or a regional plan provides guidance as to whether a proposed development is in conformance with the plan, the Land Use Panel considers two questions: (1) Is the language in the plan mandatory or merely a guidance and (2) Are the plan's provisions specific or ambiguous? • To determine in Act 250 cases whether a plan provision is mandatory or merely a guidance, the Vermont Supreme Court established a general rule that plan provisions using "shall" are more likely to be interpreted as mandates or prohibitions, whereas provisions using "should" are less likely to be so interpreted. CCRPC deliberately chose to make the 2013 ECOS Plan a strategic plan that is intended to provide general advisory guidance and intentionally chose not to use "shall" in the Plan's policy statements. • State statutes establish that regional plans and municipal plans are to be compatible with one another. • A regional plan must be adopted by not less than a 60 percent vote of the commissioners representing municipalities and initially may be vetoed by a majority of the municipalities. • Confirmation of a municipality's planning process by CCRPC requires that the municipality's plan be compatible with the regional plan. The following is the required definition of "substantial regional impact," as this term is to be used with respect to Chittenden County. A proposed development has a substantial regional impact if it is not consistent with the Future Land Use Plan of this Regional Plan. This definition puts the emphasis on the Planning Areas — and stipulates that if a development proposal is not consistent with the Planning Areas then the Regional Plan will take effect in the State proceedings (as described above) if there is a conflict between the regional plan and the municipal plan. The Planning Areas form the basis for the appropriate areas for growth in the next 20 years as shown in the Future Land Use Plan. The Planning Areas are consistent with current municipal plans and zoning, so only developments that are NOT consistent with municipal zoning and the planning area definitions would likely prompt the SRI definition. Further, developments that push beyond these defined areas are more likely to have a significant impact on our region, than developments within the defined areas for growth. If there is good reason to change the planning areas as the municipality is revising their municipal plan, zoning and infrastructure service area, the ECOS Plan may be amended upon request by the municipality and action by CCRPC. The CCRPC has a role in development review, outside of the very limited circumstances in which the substantial regional impact definition will come into play, RPCs "shall appear before district environmental commissions to aid them in making a determination as to the conformance of developments and subdivisions with the criteria of 10 VSA § 6086" (24 VSA § 4345a(13)). Both Act 250 and Section 248 require the permit applicant for a project that is proposed to be located in Chittenden County to submit a copy of the application to CCRPC. CCRPC is a party in any such application for an Act 250 permit and may apply to be a party in any such application for a Section 248 permit. CCRPC has established an interim policy (Guidelines and Standards for Reviewing Act 102 4.1 ECOS Regional Plan Policies I Chapter 4 — using the ecos Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 1 1/14/2012 250 and Section 248 Applications) for its participation in the permit review procedures of Act 250 and Section 248. Currently under this interim policy: • CCRPC's Executive Committee considers whether an applicant's proposal is in conformance with the Regional Plan, with specific attention given to the Planning Areas of this Plan (for the same reasons described above for the SRI definition), and the criteria dealing with traffic and other criteria within CCRPC's expertise. • Staff initially reviews each Act 250 application (with specific attention given to those applications going to a hearing as the FY13 CCRPC contract with the Agency of Commerce and Community Development requires that the CCRPC review and comment on Act 250 and Section 248 applications if a hearing is held). • CCRPC staff will discuss potential Act 250 and Section 248 projects with Planning and Zoning staff and members of the Planning Advisory Committee to identify emerging development proposals to assess their conformance with the Regional Plan. The intent is that this proactive, collaborative approach attempts to work out any concerns about Act 250 and Section 248 applications prior to their submission. The Planning Advisory Committee may recommend to the CCRPC more specific thresholds and procedures for participation in Act 250 and Section 248 proceedings in order to better achieve the goals of this Chittenden County 2013 ECOS Plan. These thresholds will be established through formal amendments to the Guidelines and Standards for Reviewing Act 250 and Section 248 Applications. 4.1 .3 STATEMENT OF COMPATIBILITY AND CONSISTENCY Pursuant to 24 VSA 4302 (f), 4345a (5), 4348a (a), and 4348a (a)(8), CCRPC has • Reviewed the approved plans of its member municipalities and of its adjoining regional planning commissions and concluded that this ECOS Plan is compatible with those plans (that is, this ECOS Plan, as implemented, will not significantly reduce the desired effect of the implementation of the other plans) and • Reviewed the goals of 24 VSA 4302 and concluded that this ECOS Plan is consistent with those goals (that is, implementation of this ECOS Plan will result in substantial progress toward attainment of the goals established in 24 VSA 4302). 4.2 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) 4.2.1 UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT G The following information, definitions, and conceptual framework would not be possible without the resources,prior work, and reports from Economic and Policy Resources, the GBIC Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, and GBIC Economic Plans Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)IChapter 4 — using the ecos 103 Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 It is absolutely vital that we have an economic development strategy that enables our region and our state to be a competitive place to attract and retain high value-added, dollar importing businesses in order to create high paying jobs and sustainable economic opportunities for Vermonters. A healthy and sustainable economy functions much like a biological organism; at all times portions of the organism are growing to replace those that become weak, mature, and die. Goods and services produced within the region and sold to consumers outside the region result in dollars flowing into the region's economy. Those are the dollars that provide the fuel necessary for the renewal of a region's economy. They circulate through the economy as wage earnings, rents, and purchases of goods and services. The total dollar impact is greater than the sum of the parts and the flow generates new investment that sustains and renews the capacity of the economy. Without these dollars to support the renewal of the economy, the prospect of future prosperity is lost as relative job and income growth performance is reduced through loss of economic productivity. Economic Development should not be confused with land development. Economic development means many things to many people. To some, it means creating new job opportunities. To others, it means increasing the grand list of individual communities. To others, economic development is viewed as the process of consuming more of the world's finite resources, which inevitably leads to the degradation of the global environment. Still others view economic development as a way to make the economy stronger, and working hard to achieve sustainable improvements in the lives of workers and families. With so many different views, it is not surprising that economic development is often mislabeled and misunderstood. Careful consideration of the term economic development finds that it is a term that encompasses much more than just creating additional businesses and jobs, or adding to a municipality's or region's tax base. Real and more enlightened economic development is about"building a community's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic well-being of residents."' Under this definition, it is not just access to any job. It is about access to good jobs, ones that can support an adequate standard of living for all residents of a region or community. It is also about continuous and sustainable improvements in the internal functioning of the economy, where its structural underpinnings are made stronger without sacrificing long-term quality of life. A healthy, vital and sustainable economy is what is required to provide the public resources for a strong social safety net, the protection of the environment, and high-quality public services such as quality roads, and good schools. All of those are attributes of the superior quality of life in strong communities. Understanding Economic Development: • Economic development is about building a community's capacity for shared and sustainable improvements in the economic well-being of residents. • Economic development is about access to good jobs that can support an adequate standard of living for all residents of a region or community. Economic development is also about ' From Local Partnerships for Economic Development, Executive Office of Communities & Development, State of Massachusetts (1994). 104 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) I Chapter 4— using the ecos Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 continuous and sustainable improvements in the internal functioning of the economy, where its structural underpinnings are made stronger without sacrificing long-term quality of life. • Economic development provides the means and the continuous process to strengthen the foundation of our communities. Why we need economic development: • To constantly renew and strengthen the "living economy". • To address on-going infrastructure needs of key dollar-importing regional businesses. • To supply the financial resources in order to create and sustain healthy communities. The Circle of Prosperity: When a state has and maintains a talented workforce it attracts a diverse industrial base of dollar importing businesses that create high wage jobs. From the economic drivers dollars flow into the private sector to provide taxes, public revenues, capital, resources, and employment opportunities. These private sector actions fund the public sector's operations through taxes and governmental fees of which both the public and private sectors invests in creating and maintaining a clean environment, good schools, access to higher education, housing, and enhances the state's quality of life creating healthy communities. The "Circle of Prosperity" illustrates this interrelationship. First articulated in Vermont back in 1997 by the Vermont Business Roundtable, the "Circle of Prosperity" emphasizes the fact that economic development and healthy communities are a system, involving the collective and sometimes coordinated actions of many individuals, businesses, and institutions.8 Clean Envirorvnent Good Schools Which we Invest Which Attract Access to Higher Education to Have_ and Retain_ • Housing High Quality of Life Eddy Childhood Develapnrent Talented Workforce Diverse Industrial Base Which Increase... Regional Income&Opportunities Public Revenues High-Paying lobs t Economic and Policy Resources 2004 Chittenden County Economic Plan. The Role of the Vermont Business Roundtable in the Evaluation, Coordination and Support of Economic Development Policy in Vermont, Report of the Economic Development Task Force, 1997.pp.1-2. Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)IChapter 4— using the ecos 105 Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 Economic Development Market Focus: The primary economic market focus of the economic development practitioners is to work with the Vermont Department of Economic Development and the region's municipalities to retain, sustain, and attract high value-added economic opportunities for Vermonters. The primary focus is the value-added, dollar importing, goods and services exporting industry sectors. The primary goal of regional economic development corporations is the creation and retention of value- added jobs that will employ Vermonters, draw dollars into the state, strengthen the region's economy, and improve the quality of life for area residents. The economic focus of GBIC is the region's value- added industry sectors and the region's economy-driving businesses. Value-adding, goods and services exporting, dollar importing employers are the economic contributors that form the base of a region's economy. The value-added industry sector is defined by enterprises that add value to a good, a product and/or a service and then export these goods, products, and/or services, thereby importing money into the state. This creates the highest wage jobs, economic opportunities for Vermonters, and forms the base of the foundation of our state's economy. These businesses tend to be the primary generators of capital in a region's economy and create the highest wage employment opportunities for working Vermonters. Vermont's RDCs conduct ongoing value-added business visitation programs to know and understand the issues and opportunities facing Vermont's regional value-added industries. Economic Drivers defined: Economic drivers are businesses that add value to a good, product, and/or service and then export the good, product, and/or service and then import cash into the state. Dollars from these companies flow into the private sector to provide capital, resources, and employment opportunities. Economic drivers form the foundation of our regional and state economies and we must know who they are and do whatever we can as a state to keep them here in Vermont. Key attributes of Vermont's Economic Drivers: • Produce "dollar importing" high-value goods and/or services. • Achieve superior levels of labor productivity through specialized applications and/or knowledge. • Maintain a continuous program of improvement to productive capacity and efficiency through capital investment. • Maximize the region's intellectual capital resources through collaborative initiatives that utilize the strengths of industry, higher education, government, and civic organizations. • Are attracted to state's natural resource endowments to gain competitive advantage. Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) I Chapter 4— using the ecos Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 There are four types of basic economic development: 1. Business/Job Creation 2. Retention of Existing Key Employers is Job # 1 in Economic Development 3. Expansion of Existing Economic Driver Employers 4. Grow through Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development Business /Job Creation: Most successful and sustainable business and job creation comes from existing employers, entrepreneurs and innovators. Those employers, investors, entrepreneurs and innovators who are already living in Vermont are the most likely prospects to continue to invest in Vermont and create economic and job opportunities in our state. Retention of Existing Key Employers is Job# 1 in Economic Development The oldest rule in economic development is to keep your"home businesses competitive and retain them". The value of retaining our state's existing value adding, dollar importing, goods and service exporting employers is JOB #1 for economic development practitioners. Vermont rarely attracts employers that come into our state with job offerings of over 50 employees initially so the retention of our state's most significant far outweighs allocating significant resources into chasing rising star sectors. Retaining and valuing these employers is essential to saving and creating good jobs for working Vermonters. So the retention of our state's most significant economic driver employers is always priority# 1. A quality job preserved is as valuable as good as new quality job created. In these competitive economic times working Vermonters and their families cannot afford to lose their high paying jobs in our state's current economic driver businesses. Expansion of Existing Economic Driver Employers Most new job creation will always come from employers that are already domiciled in our state. Knowing, understanding and addressing their needs and requirements to remain competitive will almost certainly make Vermont the site of choice for expansion of jobs and economic investments. Grow through Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) put forth the definition of innovation, knowledge-based economies as "economies which are directly based on the production, distribution, and use of knowledge and information." In the OECD's efforts to further refine their definition of a knowledge-based economy, they invented two related concepts. The first concerned "investment in knowledge," relying on a statistical definition: "expenditures directed towards activities with the aim of enhancing existing knowledge and/or acquiring new knowledge." For the OECD, this amounted the sum of the expenditures on research and development (R&D), higher education, and software. The OECD, in the second concept, provided for the classification of"knowledge-based industries," stating that such business had the following three characteristics: 1) a high level of investment in innovation, 2) intensive use of acquired technology, and 3) a highly-educated workforce. The most vital component to Vermont's economic landscape is innovation. Innovation is knowledge creation by either improving on existing knowledge or through the development of new ideas. For Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)IChapter 4— using the ecos 107 Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 businesses, innovation provides a means by which companies can adapt to changes in the marketplace as well as to improve on techniques and technologies. This creative quality is not relegated to the business community alone or a class of innovative individuals. Indeed, all people within the community have the potential to generate new ideas which, when properly facilitated, can lead to new commercial ventures. The bio-researcher who develops a new cancer drug and the Vermont dairy farmer who designs more efficient ways to manufacture and market cheese products (knowledge- based farming) expand the knowledge held prior to their innovation and each provides a new marketable commodity. In this sense, a region with a thriving creative economy is one that emplaces a system to assist the smooth transmission of ideas to the marketplace. In an economy where knowledge and innovation are key, education in general and higher education in particular are the fulcrum points upon which success and failure hinge. Vermont has a unique advantage in this area, as higher education is represented well throughout the state. It stands to reason, therefore, that the University of Vermont, Middlebury College, Champlain College, Norwich University, St. Michael's College, the Vermont State Colleges and Vermont's institutions of higher education should serve not only as focal points for the creation of new information, but also as conduits for those innovative people outside these schools to bring to market their new ideas. This requires the development of partnerships between higher education and businesses as well as an established network of contacts with equal and open communication among partners. While the accomplishments of the Vermont Technology Council and the Experiment Programs to Stimulate Completive Research program (EPSCoR) are notable to be sure, a knowledge-based economy warrants an expansion of these programs that furthers the integration of the business and higher education communities.9 In developing and sustaining an innovation knowledge-base society, higher education, state, and business leaders should recognize the importance of three central themes: improving education, investing in research and development, and developing a system that enables the transmission of ideas to the marketplace.10 Characteristics of an Innovation, Knowledge-based Society • Driven by Technology and Information • Evolutionary by Nature • Education is a Key Component • Dependent on Creativity and Innovation • Highly Competitive in the Global Marketplace • Encompasses all Members of Society • Relies on Networks and Partnerships The Five Policy Pillars of an Innovation, Knowledge-based Society 1. Foundational investments in education, training, and scientific and technological research 2. Creation of an open and flexible regulatory and trade system that supports growth and innovation, including policies that support the IT revolution 9 Excerpted from Shane Barney,GBIC-Vermont Business Roundtable Knowledge base Society Study 10 Shane Barney,GBIC-Vermont Business Roundtable Knowledge base Society Study 108 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) I Chapter 4— using the ecos Plan • DISCUSSION DRAFT Chitienden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 3. Development of polices to enable employers and employees the needs tools to navigate, adapt, and prosper in a continually changing economic environment 4. Reinvention of the state government and organizations involved in economic development to make them fast, responsive, and flexible. 5. A proper balance between too narrow and too wide of a policy." These are entrepreneurs that through creativity and innovation start businesses and want to keep themselves and their businesses here. Examples of our region's and state's successes of companies created by Vermont innovators and entrepreneurs are: Dealer.com, Rhino Foods, Burton Snowboards, Gardeners Supply, Ben and Jerry's, Green Mountain Coffee, My Web Grocer, Seventh Generation, Union Street Media, Harringtons, Dakin Farms, King Arthur Flour, NRG Systems, Microstrain, and The Vermont Teddy Bear Company. To our good fortune primary characteristic of these innovators and entrepreneurs is that they are already members of our communities and they want to stay and grow here. These are businesses and business people who love Vermont and want to stay here and innovate, invest, create things and live in Vermont. We must focus upon creating an environment and support network that encourages, nurtures and develops entrepreneurial enterprise and innovation must be one of our primary economic development goals and programmatic priorities. Coordinate and promote the providers, programs, and services already available in the State to create an economic ecosystem of resources that is easily navigable at all stages of the innovation and entrepreneurial continuum. This must aggregate and address services such as finding capital, mentorship, prototyping, commercialization, etc. Strategic Business Attraction/Recruitment: States with limited resources that are allocated towards business recruitment should be very targeted and strategic in their efforts to attract new employers and jobs. • Developing a highly targeted business recruitment strategy that includes identifying those existing businesses in the state with good expansion/growth potential is an important component of any successful economic development strategy. • Vermont should broaden its recruitment efforts into new, currently under-represented industries that have a competitiveness profile that is consistent with the key regional and statewide business attributes for success and/or utilize substantially same or functionally-similar approaches that successful Vermont based companies employ to achieve their success. • One of the most essential elements in creating a successful recruitment program is to seek to find employers that are a fit for the culture of our state. • Creating an environment and support network that encourages, nurtures and develops entrepreneurial enterprise and innovation must be one of Vermont's primary economic development goals and programmatic priorities. Vermont's Natural Recruitment Prospect Markets Shane Barney,GBIC-Vermont Business Roundtable Knowledge base Society Study Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)IChapter 4— using the ecos 109 Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 A proven and successful recruitment strategy for Vermont must recognize the historical facts that the businesses and enterprises that we successfully have recruited to Vermont and those that have stayed here have done so seem to fall into three prospect categories: 1. They are here already and want to stay and grow here. These are businesses and business people who are here already. In small and large businesses these are the entrepreneurs that through creativity and innovation start businesses and want to keep themselves and their businesses here. They love Vermont and want to live and work here. 2. They have a love and affinity for Vermont and want to be here. These are people that love Vermont and want to be here. These prospects are people with an emotional attachment to and an affinity for Vermont. The natural markets for this natural recruitment markets seem to fall into the following areas: Former Vermont residents: People born here or educated here who have moved away and want to come back to Vermont. They are the Alumni of Vermont's institutions of higher education. Vermont has helped define their lives. They loved Vermont and our state has played a meaningful part of their personal development and enrichment and they have the desire to come back to Vermont to live, raise a family, work, and or to retire. Another group that falls into this prospect category is people that own second homes in Vermont or are loyal and dedicated Vermont vacationers. Vermont is a very special place to them and their families. 3. There is a strategic advantage for their business to be located in Vermont. An example of these prospects is the Vermont Captive Insurance companies who have come to Vermont because of the Vermont Captive Insurance incentive program. Another would be the financial services companies that are here in Vermont through the Vermont Financial Services Tax Credit program. Vermont has developed a globally renowned captive insurance program. The state should continue to enhance the resources to strengthen this industry sector and also develop comprehensive educational curriculums that lead Vermonters into careers that support the retention and growth of this industry. Where to Prospect for long-term recruitment success: Vermont's institutions of higher education are vitally important for succeeding in the development of new high value-added industry sectors. Vermont should work with the offices of development and alumni at all of our state's institutions of higher education to prospect for Alumni, Parents, and Friends that would be interested in exploring future investments and economic development opportunities in Vermont. Focus on second home owners and visitors who love Vermont. The state should also work closely with the Vermont Ski Areas Association and our state's resorts to create opportunities to get to know and prospect for second home owners and vacationers that would be interested in exploring future investments and economic development opportunities in Vermont. 110 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Chapter 4 — using the ecos Plan DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 4.2.2 CEDS PRIORITIES The CEDS priority strategies are described in Section 3.2. 4.2.3 CEDS PROJECTS Projects that might want to apply for federal funds are included in the ECOS Project List below. This Project List is considered the CEDS Project list for the purposes of satisfying Economic Development Administration requirements. Revise as needed... Add list 4.3 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Add discussion Add list 4.3 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP)IChapter 4 — using the ecos Plan ill DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 APPENDIX - DIGITAL ONLY? Public Engagement Report (if needed) Chittenden County History Crosswalk — showing how/where RP, MTP, CEDS requirements are met ECOS Project List (also serving as GBIC's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Project List) CCRPC's Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Projects and Supplemental MTP Documents ECOS Criteria Financial Report for MTP investments 112Public Engagement Report (if needed) I Appendix— DIGITAL ONLY? DISCUSSION DRAFT Chittenden County ECOS Plan— 11/14/2012 1 National Weather Service. "Temperature Climatology." 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Keeping Our Air Clean: Local and Regional Strategies to Improve Air Quality in Chittenden County. Available at: 7 Frumhoff,P.C.et al. op cit. 8 Stager,l.C.and M.Thill.(2010). Climate Change in the Champlain Basin: What natural resource managers can expect and do. Available at: 9 Frumhoff,P.C.et al.op cit. 10 Wilmot,S.(2011). Climate Change and Vermont's Forests. Available: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/am/climatechange/Adaptation.html 11 Karlsson,L. (2011). Vermont Climate Change Health Effects Adaptation. Available: p://www.anr.state.vt.us/anr/climatechange/Adaptation.html 12 Dolan,K. (2011) Climate Change and Public Safety. Available: nttp://www.anr.state.vt.us/anr/climatechange/Adaptation.html 13 Pealer,S.and G.Dunnington(2011). Climate Change and Vermont's Waters. Available: http://www.anr.state.vt.us/anr/climatechange/Adaptation.html 14 Frumhoff,P.E.,et al.,op cit. 15 Dunnington,G.(2010). The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Vermont. Available; http://www.anr.state.vt.usianr/climatechange/Adaptation.html 16 Wilmot,S.,op cit. 17 Dunnington,G.(2011). The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Recreation in Vermont. Available: httpffwww.anr.state.vt.usianr/climatechange/Adaptation.html 18 Mika,A.M.et al.(2010)."Vermont Integrated Land Use and Transportation Carbon Estimator"in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2191:119-127,Available at: Financial Report for MTP investmentslAppendix— DIGITAL ONLY? 113