Transportation Levies – Perspectives from Seattle and Bellevue
March 19, 2025
11:30 - 12:00pm Check-In /Lunch Service
12:00 - 1:00pm Presentation and Q&A
1:00 pm Adjourn
MPAC is pleased to welcome staff from Seattle and Bellevue to discuss their respective transportation levy programs. Join us on Wednesday March 19th, 2025 to learn more about each of these programs and how their staff are working to communicate and deliver projects and fulfill commitments made to voters. Seattle voters recently passed an eight-year $1.55 billion Transportation Levy that provides funding to maintain and modernize the city’s transportation infrastructure including building sidewalks, paving streets, repairing bridges, and improving transit connections. This levy follows prior expired levies from 2015 (Move Seattle) and 2006 (Bridging the Gap).
Bellevue voters approved a 20-year transportation-focused levy in 2016 that provides approximately $8 million per year to support the design, construction and outreach needs for neighborhood safety projects, bicycle facilities, sidewalks, trails and paths, safety and traffic management technology, and congestion reduction. To date, funding has been used to advance 100+ projects.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Meghan Shepard
Meghan is the Interim Director of the Policy and Planning Division at the Seattle Department of Transportation, where she led the development of the 2024 Transportation Levy. Since joining SDOT in 2002, she has played a key role in major mobility, transit, and infrastructure projects, including the "Seattle Squeeze" and the West Seattle Bridge repair.
Katie Olsen
Katie works for the Seattle Department of Transportation as the Transportation Communications Strategist. She is focused on communications and reporting for the City’s transportation levies, including the development of the 2024 Transportation Levy. She is also the department’s liaison to the City’s Transportation Levy Oversight Committee. Katie has worked at SDOT for nearly 5 years.
John Murphy
John Murphy is a Principal Planner with the City of Bellevue’s Neighborhood Traffic Safety Services division, having worked at the city for over 13 years. He manages the city’s Neighborhood Safety, Connectivity and Congestion Levy, leads/supports various Transportation-related policies and planning efforts (such as Vision Zero), and manages small-scale transportation safety projects.
COST (includes lunch)
$25 APWA Members
$35 Non APWA Members
$15 Students
LOCATION
Bellevue City Hall
450 110th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
March 19, 2025
11:30 - 12:00pm Check-In /Lunch Service
12:00 - 1:00pm Presentation and Q&A
1:00 pm Adjourn
MPAC is pleased to welcome staff from Seattle and Bellevue to discuss their respective transportation levy programs. Join us on Wednesday March 19th, 2025 to learn more about each of these programs and how their staff are working to communicate and deliver projects and fulfill commitments made to voters. Seattle voters recently passed an eight-year $1.55 billion Transportation Levy that provides funding to maintain and modernize the city’s transportation infrastructure including building sidewalks, paving streets, repairing bridges, and improving transit connections. This levy follows prior expired levies from 2015 (Move Seattle) and 2006 (Bridging the Gap).
Bellevue voters approved a 20-year transportation-focused levy in 2016 that provides approximately $8 million per year to support the design, construction and outreach needs for neighborhood safety projects, bicycle facilities, sidewalks, trails and paths, safety and traffic management technology, and congestion reduction. To date, funding has been used to advance 100+ projects.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Meghan Shepard
Meghan is the Interim Director of the Policy and Planning Division at the Seattle Department of Transportation, where she led the development of the 2024 Transportation Levy. Since joining SDOT in 2002, she has played a key role in major mobility, transit, and infrastructure projects, including the "Seattle Squeeze" and the West Seattle Bridge repair.
Katie Olsen
Katie works for the Seattle Department of Transportation as the Transportation Communications Strategist. She is focused on communications and reporting for the City’s transportation levies, including the development of the 2024 Transportation Levy. She is also the department’s liaison to the City’s Transportation Levy Oversight Committee. Katie has worked at SDOT for nearly 5 years.
John Murphy
John Murphy is a Principal Planner with the City of Bellevue’s Neighborhood Traffic Safety Services division, having worked at the city for over 13 years. He manages the city’s Neighborhood Safety, Connectivity and Congestion Levy, leads/supports various Transportation-related policies and planning efforts (such as Vision Zero), and manages small-scale transportation safety projects.
COST (includes lunch)
$25 APWA Members
$35 Non APWA Members
$15 Students
LOCATION
Bellevue City Hall
450 110th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004