Accountability Dashboard
Listening, learning, and reporting back to our community.
Accountability Dashboard V.2 June - August 2021
The IBR Accountability Dashboard is a transparency tool designed to share engagement metrics and hold the program accountable to the public. Ongoing and inclusive community engagement is critical to identify a solution that balances differing regional perspectives and best serves the complex needs of the variety of users. The metrics below are the results of community engagement efforts conducted from June - August 2021. Additional engagement opportunities will continue throughout the life of the program.
Listening
Meetings Held
20
June - August 2021
Meetings held include Advisory Committee Meetings and broader community meetings.
Website Visitors
6,200
June – August 2021
An anonymous website metric which tracks users visiting a website. This metric includes new users and returning visitors.
Social Engagements
9,569
June – August 2021
Advisory Committee Meeting Engagement
June – August 2021
Live attendance is in reference to committee members, the advisory group members and other attendees. YouTube viewers 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 January-May 2021
| Group | Meeting Attendance | YouTube Viewers |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Steering Group | 179 | 355 |
| Equity Advisory Group | 72 | 225 |
| Community Advisory Group | 116 | 115 |
| Community Working Group | 44 | 38 |
Listening Session Participants
196
June – August 2021
The IBR program hosted 12 listening sessions between June 1 – August 31. Sessions were centered around particular topics and communities in order to solicit meaningful feedback: Downtown Vancouver, Active Transportation, Sustainability and Climate, BIPOC, People Living with a Disability, Houseless Individuals and Families, Older Adults, and four sessions held in languages other than English. Participants shared their current experience traveling through the program area, transportation concerns, and input on what would improve their experience.
Community Presentations
8
June – August 2021
Community presentations are presentations given to various community groups at their request.
Meetings with Caption Services
20
June – August 2021
The number of public meetings that were streamed live with caption services.
Documents Remediated
59
June – August 2021
Documents that have been modified with an internal tag structure to meet ADA compliance standards and be accessible to individuals using reader assistive technologies.
Newsletter Subscribers
6,731
June – August 2021
Caption Services
June – August 2021
| Caption Services | Total |
|---|---|
| Meetings with captions | 20 |
| Meetings with ASL | 20 |
| Videos with Audio Captions | 10 |
Multilingual Community Liaison Hours
June– August 2021
The program worked with multilingual community engagement liaisons who are fluent in other languages and deeply connected within their local communities to connect with communities that have been historically marginalized or underrepresented in public transportation projects. Translation hours reflect translation services to translate information for the community listening sessions. Engagement hours refer to time spent on the language specific listening sessions. There was a total of 77 multilingual listening session participants.
| Activity | Hours |
|---|---|
| Translation | 8 |
| Engagement | 120 |
Comments Received
115
June - August 2021
Media Stories
19
June - August 2021
Media stories generated by the IBR program between June 1 and August 31.
Learning
Listening Sessions and Advisory Groups
Sustainability and climate listening session
Participants who attended the Sustainability and Climate Listening Session shared a desire for a multimodal solution, ideas about the size of the program’s footprint, and ideas for how to make the construction phase more sustainable. Overall, participants would like an IBR solution that embodies sustainability best practices and acts as an example other transportation projects will aspire to emulate.
Elevating Equity listening sessions
The Elevating Equity Listening Sessions were a series of nine public meetings focused on generating feedback from equity priority communities. There were two sessions focused on BIPOC, and one session each for older adults, houseless/people with lower income and people living with a disability. The program also held four language-specific listening sessions in Russian, Somali, Vietnamese and Chinese. These sessions had over 130 participants who provided meaningful feedback regarding what areas people frequent, their concerns and our community engagement approach.
Equity Advisory Group Highlights
- Developed the draft Equity Framework that outlines the program’s approach and resources it will use to advance equity. Program staff gathered feedback on the first draft of the Framework. Elements of the Framework are already being implemented within the IBR program while the document itself is being refined.
- Informed on equity-focused screening criteria for design options; determining how the various options will be evaluated and identifying criteria and metrics that support our equity objectives.
- Helped the program improve the inclusivity of community engagement by recruiting individuals and organizations for Listening Sessions, grant opportunities and Community Working Groups.
- Advised on strategies to ensure that our online engagement is accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired.
Community Advisory Group Highlights
- Learned about the list of design and transit options and was able to ask questions and provide feedback, with most CAG comments focusing on safety, traffic congestion and an interest in tolling.
- Received information on the different types of high-capacity transit being considered and viewed transportation data and modeling from the transportation and environmental teams.
- Informed on the list of desired outcomes as it relates to screening criteria from the IBR environmental team. More information will be presented to CAG regarding climate and equity as it relates to screening criteria, in 2022.
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 community members are interested in learning more about the program’s design process and sharing their feedback.
We’ve heard social media is one of the preferred ways our community would like to be engaged.
Reporting
The program will continue to share accountability reports and develop additional reporting metrics. The most recent accountability reports include the 2020 Program Progress Report and Draft Conceptual Finance Plan. The Conceptual Finance Plan provides an early and high-level overview of initial estimated funding and financing needs and potential sources.
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 | Winter 2024 |
| Pre-Construction | Winter 2024 | Summer 2025 |
| Community Engagement | Fall 2020 | Summer 2025 |
Disadvantaged Business Participation Goals
June - August 2021
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 | Program Goal | Current Participation |
|---|---|---|
| 15% | 20% | 18% |
Current Funding Sources
Oregon: $45,000,000*
Washington: $ 35,000,000**
Funding Source notes:
* – CFDA 20.205, title Highway Planning and Construction, Federal Aid Highway Program Funds. $36,000,000 of total is pending incorporation into Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program.
** – WA State Motor Vehicle account funds.
$97.7 million was obligated through WA State Connecting Washington Funds for reconstructing the Mill Plain Blvd. Interchange. This improvement is anticipated to be needed as part of Interstate Bridge replacement efforts. Funds are currently programmed to be available beginning August 2023.
Current Expenditures
$ Amount spent through August 2021*
| IBR Program Work | Spent through August 2021* |
| WSDOT | $1,772,621 |
| ODOT | $609,410 |
| General Engineering Consultant | $18,438,628 |
*Spending reflects all costs associated with program work since efforts were reinitiated in July 2019, including labor, equipment, and expenses
Authorized budget through October 2021
Authorized approved budget through 2021*
Current Areas of Work |
GEC Authorized Budget through October 2021 |
| Program Management | $4,035,424 |
| Program Controls | 3,082,432 |
| Financial Structures | 1,022,675 |
| Communications | 5,348,974 |
| Transportation Planning | 1,632,037 |
| Environmental | $2,939,443 |
| Transit Planning/Engineering | $1,974,753 |
| Design Engineering | $3,838,117 |
| Major Structures | $1,464,461 |
| Direct Expense | $1,200,920 |
| Total | $26,539,236 |
Consultant Representation by Geographic Area
As of August 2021
PNW firms are firms with offices in OR and WA, that are not in the Portland/Vancouver region.
List of current subconsultants (as of August 2021) WSP USA, Parametrix, Inc., PointNorth Consulting, Espousal Strategies, Kearns & West, GKM dba/Amico Public Relations, Triunity, Inc., Emerio Design, LLC, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, Willamette Cultural Resources Associates, Ltd, IML Services LLC, Group AGB, LTD, Shannon & Wilson, Inc, Alta Planning + Design, Inc., Wolf Water Resources: Cooper Zietz Engineers, Steven M. Siegel, Thuy Tu Consulting, LLC, Knight Architects Limited, Ott-Sakai & Associates, LLC, Epic Land Solutions, Inc., Armeni Consulting Services, LLC
Number of comment forms received in our database.