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December 30, 2008
PDOT Priorities
Still a few days left to express your thoughts on where the budget knife should fall next at the Portland Office of Transportation as the recession continues to decrease available revenue from gas taxes:
If you had to cut $6.4 million from the City's Transportation budget, how would you prioritize programs? Please take our survey - respond by January 2, 2009.
Click below for survey:
Bureau of Transportation Budget Prioritization SurveyThe Portland Bureau of Transportation has been going through a budget prioritization process since mid-summer as a result of sagging gas tax revenue and lower parking revenue.
In order to bring expenditures in line with the reduced revenue, a prioritization of all discretionary funded activities has been done. This prioritization has been done on the basis of criteria which assess the significance of the activity to the core mission and objectives of the organization.
A Budget Advisory Committee made up of members from the community and organized labor was selected in September and charged with reviewing the process. Additionally they've been tasked with helping Transportation identify the cuts necessary to cover the $6.4 million shortfall for FY 09/10 budget.
Twenty-five program listings were broken out into priority order. If you had to cut $6.4 million out of Transportation's budget, how would you prioritize the following programs?
Please respond by January 2, 2009.
Posted by Chris Smith at 10:05 AM
Comments
December 30, 2008 1:58 PM
John Russell Says:
Wasn't this from before the winter storm clean-up cost a good two million? Have they made any statements on how that will affect this?
December 30, 2008 5:43 PM
Jason Barbour Says:
I had been meaning to do the survey, then clicked on page 2. As it turns out, there is no information on what you're actually prioritizing, only the name of the overlying "programs," with no explanation of what each actually accomplishes (or, if any of them actually accomplish anything). Additionally, one would think that they'd be asked to rank these from 1 to 25, in order of importance–however, the only options for each program is "high," "medium," and "low" priority.
Something tells me they have their plan, regardless of the survey results, and it probably doesn't involve much road maintenance.
