Accountability Dashboard
Listening, learning, and reporting back to our community.
Accountability Dashboard
This accountability dashboard is a voluntary transparency tool that provides quarterly updates on our engagement with the community. Biannual updates related to financial and contracting metrics can be found under the Reporting tab.
Listening
Public Meetings Held
16
July - September 2022
Meetings held include advisory committee meetings.
Website Visitors
33,185
July– September 2022
An anonymous website metric which tracks users visiting a website. This metric includes new users and returning visitors.
Social Media Engagements
7,840
July – September 2022
Videos Produced
9
July - September 2022
Content was created to amplify program partners' voices, educate the community on the importance of auxiliary lanes, dispel program myths, highlight the needs for transit in the area and inform the community on the next steps in the process, and demonstrate the current issues with the Interstate Bridge.
YouTube Lifetime Views
35,062
Since program launch
Lifetime YouTube views are all of the views you have gained on your channel since you started uploading videos.
Community Presentations
28
July - September 2022
Community presentations are presentations given to various community groups, neighborhoods, and municipalities at their request.
Advisory Committee Meeting Engagement
July – September 2022
Meeting views are those who viewed the meeting from YouTube either during the presentation or at a later time/date. These numbers are reflective of the advisory group meetings from July - September 2022.
| Group | Meeting Views |
|---|---|
| Executive Steering Group | 255 |
| Equity Advisory Group | 127 |
| Community Advisory Group | 439 |
Accessibility
July - September 2022
| Caption Services | Total |
|---|---|
| Meetings with captions | 3 |
| Meetings with ASL | 2 |
| Documents Remediated | 29 |
The program provided ASL interpretations and closed captioning for public meetings and events hosted by the program.
Documents and meeting presentations are remediated and made ADA compliant before posting to our website.
Newsletter Subscribers
6,887
Subscribers to date
Comments Received
102
July – September 2022
Media Stories
62
July – September 2022
Media stories generated about the IBR program between July and September.
Learning
Environmental Evaluation Process
Starting in fall 2022, the IBR program began environmental evaluation of the Modified Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) as required by federal law. This work will study the benefits and impacts of foundational design details.
Examples of design elements to be studied during this time include, but are not limited to:
- One auxiliary lane from Marine Drive in Portland to Mill Plain Blvd in Vancouver.
- Partial I-5 interchange on Hayden Island.
- Extension of light rail transit from the Expo Center in Portland to Vancouver with a terminus at Evergreen Blvd to connect the existing transit networks.
- Potential transit station locations on Hayden Island, near the Vancouver waterfront, and Evergreen Blvd near the Vancouver Community Library.
- Potential transit park and ride locations.
- Active transportation (bike/walk/roll) connections.
During the summer of 2023, a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) will be published for public review and comment. This document will summarize environmental review findings and the impacts and benefits associated with the Modified LPA.
Community Advisory Group Highlights
- CAG members shared their experience participating in a program area bus tour, reviewed and discussed the U.S. Coast Guard preliminary navigation clearance determination, and learned about summer community engagement activities.
- The IBR environmental team reviewed information about next steps in the NEPA process that will inform the forthcoming Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement. CAG members asked questions about what has changed and what has remained the same about this phase of the environmental review process since the previous EIS.
- The IBR community engagement team reviewed key themes and comments heard at events hosted in Oregon and Washington during the Summer 2022 Fairs and Festivals engagement effort. CAG discussed the role they would like to have in future engagement activities, with several members expressing interest in attending or participating in future engagement events.
Equity Advisory Group Highlights
- EAG members met with staff from the Oregon Department of Transportation Toll Program and learned about their approach for developing an equitable toll system that aims to reduce the burden of tolls on low-income drivers.
- The group reviewed common elements of a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), how the IBR Equity Framework will be incorporated into the process of developing a CBA for IBR, and next steps in the process.
- EAG received a review of the next steps in the NEPA process leading up to the anticipated publication of the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
Bridge Stories
What’s your story?
We want to hear your experience using the bridge, what the bridge means to you and the benefits a replacement bridge could provide.
Send your story to info@interstatebridge.org. | View more bridge stories.
What we've heard and how we're responding
We've heard the community values low-barrier engagement options and the opportunity to have meaningful conversations with the program.
We've heard the community is interested in learning more about how the program will impact them.
We’ve heard social media is one of the preferred ways our community would like to be engaged.
Reporting
Updated through May 2022. Contracting and expenditure data takes longer to receive and compile and may not be available until months after the reported timeframe. The program will continue to share accountability reports and develop additional reporting metrics. The most recent accountability reports includes the 2022 Legislative Progress Report and 2021 Community Engagement Reports. The 2020 Conceptual Finance Plan provides an early and high-level overview of initial estimated funding and financing needs and potential sources.
Current reports are listed to the right. For more information, visit our library.
Bi-state and Legislative Reports
2022 Legislative Progress Report (December)
2022 Legislative Progress Report (June)
2021 Legislative Progress Report
2020 Conceptual Finance Plan
2020 Legislative Progress Report
Community Engagement Reports
2021 Fall Community Engagement Report
2021 Spring Community Engagement Report
Program Timeline
The program is utilizing past work as appropriate to maximize past investment and support efficient decision-making, while also taking into account changes that have occurred since the previous planning process to identify a solution that meets current and future community needs and priorities. The IBR program will work with the community, as well as local, state, federal and tribal partners to complete the following work in the coming years:
- Complete the environmental review process
- Obtain state and federal permits
- Finalize program design
- Develop a finance plan
- Secure adequate funding
- Complete right-of-way acquisition
- Advertise for construction
The program is working with partners to identify what has changed and what design options should be considered through a transparent, data-driven process to address these changes and identify an IBR solution that best meets the needs for the region. The IBR solution will be submitted to federal agency partners at the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration as part of a re-evaluation required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The re-evaluation will document the extent of new impacts based on the changes recommended to determine the next steps in the federal environmental process.
Based on the current estimated schedule, the program anticipates beginning the construction phase of the program in 2025. The following chart provides an overview of the target timeline goals for the general buckets of work that need to be completed to begin construction. Community and stakeholder engagement will continue through construction.
| Category | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| Program Launch | Fall 2020 | Winter 2021 |
| Planning | Fall 2020 | Winter 2022 |
| Environmental | Summer 2021 | Summer 2024 |
| Design | Winter 2021 | Summer 2025 |
| Permitting | Summer 2024 | Winter 2025 |
| Pre-Construction | Summer 2024 | Winter 2025 |
| Community Engagement | Fall 2020 | Winter 2025 |
Disadvantaged Business Participation Goals
Through May 2022*
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) are for-profit small business concerns where socially and economically disadvantaged individuals own at least a 51% interest and also control management and daily business operations.
| Contractual Obligation | Current Participation |
|---|---|
| 15% | 16% |
Current Funding Sources
* An additional $1 billion is dedicated through the Move Ahead WA transportation package for future work to complete construction.
Oregon: $55,000,000*
Washington: $ 45,000,000**
Funding Source notes:
* – CFDA 20.205, title Highway Planning and Construction, Federal Aid Highway Program Funds. Reflects committed funding through August 2022.
** – WA State Motor Vehicle account funds.
An additional $1 billion is dedicated through the Move Ahead WA transportation package for future work to complete construction.
Current Expenditures
Expenditures Through May 2022*
| IBR Program Work | Spent through May 2022* |
| WSDOT | $ 2,562,851 |
| ODOT | $ 1,105,345 |
| General Engineering Consultant** | $ 39,700,401 |
| Intergovernmental Agreements | $ 539,236 |
*Spending reflects all costs associated with program work since efforts were reinitiated in July 2019, including labor, equipment, and expenses. Oregon and Washington states have agreed to share costs equally, but the timing of funding and expenditures will vary.
**General Engineering Consultant figure reflects costs incurred for work performed through the date indicated.
GEC Expenditures
Expenditures Through May 2022*
|
Description |
Expenditures Through May 2022 |
|
Program Management |
6,868,709.48 |
|
Program Controls |
4,728,087.67 |
|
Financial Structures |
1,244,479.44 |
|
Communications |
7,342,866.73 |
|
Transportation Planning |
2,886,538.64 |
|
Environmental |
4,036,472.40 |
|
Transit Planning/Engineering |
3,087,241.87 |
|
Design Engineering |
5,943,753.90 |
|
Major Structures |
2,201,084.18 |
|
Direct Expense |
1,361,166.86 |
|
Grand Total |
39,700,401.17 |
Consultant Representation by Geographic Area
Through May 2022*
PNW firms are firms with offices in OR and WA, that are not in the Portland/Vancouver region.
List of current subconsultants (as of May 2022)
|
Alta Planning + Design, Inc. |
|
Armeni Consulting Services, LLC. |
|
Cooper Zietz Engineers, Inc. |
|
Crunican, LLC. |
|
Emerio Design, LLC. |
|
Epic Land Solutions, Inc. |
|
Espousal Strategies LLC. |
|
GKM, Inc. dba Amico Public Relations, Inc. |
|
Group AGB, LTD. |
|
IML Services LLC. |
|
Knight Architects Limited |
|
Otak, Inc. |
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Ott-Sakai & Associates, LLC. |
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Parametrix, Inc. |
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PointNorth Consulting, Inc. |
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Shannon & Wilson, Inc. |
|
Steven M Siegel dba Siegel Consulting |
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Thuy Tu Consulting, LLC. |
|
Triunity, Inc. |
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Willamette Cultural Resources Associates, Ltd. |
|
Wolf Water Resources, Inc. |
|
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP. |
|
LEEKA INC dba Leeka Architecture and Planning |
|
O'Bunco Engineering International Inc. |
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Rhino One, LLC. |
|
TCC & Associates Inc. |
|
EnviroIssues, Inc. |
|
Kearns & West, Inc. |
|
Tom K Iverson Natural Resource Consulting LLC |
|
Winning Mark, LLC |
|
WSP USA Inc. |
Number of comments received via email and the website form.