Fiscal Note
The Resolution amends the 2011 adopted operating budget of the Planning Division to transfer $33,700 from its Permanent Salaries expense to Consulting Services. Funding is available in the 2011 Planning Division Operating Budget. The budget will be amended as follows:
GN01-51110-224100-00-2202120: ($20,726) Permanent Salaries
GN01-51110-224100-00-2202510: ($12,974) Permanent Salaries
GN01-54950-224100-00-2202120: $20,726 Consulting
GN01-54950-224100-00-2202510: $12,974 Consulting
Title
Approving Amendment to the 2011 Planning Division Budget for the Madison Area Transportation Planning (the Metropolitan Planning Organization) transferring funding from permanent salaries to consulting services
Body
WHEREAS the City of Madison Planning Division provides staffing for the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (TPB); and
WHEREAS the Madison Area TPB staff planner who maintains and runs the regional travel model for preparing traffic forecasts unexpectedly announced his retirement effective January 4, 2011; and
WHEREAS regional travel modeling work is needed for updating the MPO's long-range regional transportation plan, which must be approved by the Madison Area TPB by November 2011, and for support of ongoing corridor and area studies in order to remain eligible for Federal and State transportation funding; and
WHEREAS the MPO cannot afford to be without modeling services for the 4- to 6-month period that will be required to hire and train a new modeler and must therefore hire a consultant to provide these services for the MPO:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the 2011 Operating Budget for the Planning Division is hereby amended to transfer $33,700 from Permanent Salaries to Consulting Services.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Planning Division is authorized to move forward with the process to hire a consulting firm and to enter into a contract with the selected firm.