For Star subscribers: The city of Tucson will have to make up for a $150 million shortfall in Regional Transportation Authority revenues.
Nicole Ludden The Regional Transportation Authority is grappling with a funding shortfall leaving the projects it promised it would deliver to voters in 2006 without a clear mechanism for completion, and only projects in the city of Tucson are left to be funded in the multi-billion dollar transportation plan.
Tucson vowed to leave the RTA by Feb. 1 unless changes were made to address a massive funding gap for the city’s unfinished projects, causing the RTA board to approve a motion in January to come up with a precise plan to fill the gap. Farhad Moghimi, the RTA’s executive director, is expected to speak with the city council before the RTA Board's Oct. 27 meeting, when members will make crucial decisions on funding the current RTA plan. It has yet to be decided which city council meeting he will attend.
“In 2006, the voters were shown certain projected budget amounts. Twenty years later, nobody expects those budget amounts to be valid,” said Councilman Steve Kozachik. “And yet the RTA is taking our projects, and saying we are not going to recognize inflationary adjustments on what those 2006 budget estimates were going to be in the city of Tucson, you have to come up with the delta on your own.”
But at the city council’s last meeting, City Manager Michael Ortega, who chairs the RTA’S technical management committee, told the council that getting the RTA to factor inflation into Tucson’s project costs is"still an area of concern" and that"ultimately, those costs both from an inflation standpoint, as well as what's going on today in terms of the radical cost increases have to be factored in.
Both projects are in Pima County’s share of RTA roadway improvements, while the Silverbell project also includes Marana. The RTA’s completed 17 of 35 road corridors promised in the 2006 plan, and the majority of the bike lanes, intersections, sidewalks and other transportation projects have been completed.
But the RTA maintains the First Avenue project would have to be sent to RTA Next to get authorization from voters due to the scope changes of the project.
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