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TH 61 Visioning and Jurisdictional Transfer Study | Washington County 12Key Personnel and Experience/Study Area Representation/Summary assortment of projects, including corridor studies and designs, regional system planning, and multiuse trail studies. She uses her creativity by guiding the creation of visual-heavy materials to communicate project needs, processes, anticipated impacts and benefits, recommendations, and implementation plans clearly and effectively to stakeholders and the public. As the leader of Bolton & Menk's transportation project funding team, she is very engaged with how projects are funded within an agency’s planning and budget and a wide array of competitive sources. Ashley has followed funding for many years as a member of the Minnesota Transportation Alliance, and she currently serves on the legislative committee to help develop and promote the legislative agenda of the organization, including passage of specific bills. With this experience and knowledge, she has excellent capabilities in aligning projects with funding sources, developing comprehensive implementation and funding plans, and grant writing and research. Under Ashley’s leadership, Bolton & Menk has helped clients secure $252 million in the last ten years, leveraging $583 million in total project costs. ASHLEY'S PROJECT EXPERIENCE: Highway 10 Ramsey Gateway, Anoka County—The Highway 10 Ramsey Gateway project team continued to develop their locally supported vision with preliminary and final design of two grade-separated interchanges. Ashley led the public engagement efforts and several funding pursuits, managed the funding plan, and contributed to fulfilling the requirements of an EA re-evaluation. She helped secure more than $60 million in competitive funds and gained public support to provide new interchanges, grade separation of the BNSF Railway, and construct new local frontage road connections. TH 41 and CSAH 61 Downtown Improvements, City of Chaska, Carver County, and MnDOT—Ashley developed and led a strategic funding plan that successfully secured $10.7 million in competitive funds for a $28 million project. The secured funding package will construct the City of Chaska’s vision to revitalize its historic downtown as the hub of community destinations and gathering places, while maintaining the functionality of the CSAH 61 and TH 41 corridor, including the TH 41 regional Minnesota River crossing. Bolton & Menk has a trusted relationship with Washington County and communities within the county. We believe our local knowledge will benefit the project team and bring community perspectives to the table. Ryan Goodman, principal engineer in our Oakdale office, serves as city engineer for Forest Lake, although no one on our TH 61 Visioning Study team provides services to the City of Forest Lake. This project is being led by our transportation group, which has internal separation from the staff that regularly serves the communities within Washington County. In our proposal we hope to have demonstrated a thorough understanding of the project objectives and our approach to collectively creating a road map for the corridor characterized by a shared, implementable vision. We understand the corridor can be a barrier in the community or a catalyst for achieving the mutual goals of the county and city. STUDY AREA REPRESENTATION SUMMARY WHY IS BOLTON & MENK THE BEST TEAM FOR THE PROJECT? There are three primary reasons you should choose Bolton & Menk for this project: We understand the role of county roads within the regional transportation system Our local experts know how to effectively engage your stakeholders We create implementable, achievable visions our clients can use County Road Experience Our team is led by a project manager who is intimately familiar with the role a county road plays within the greater transportation system, both how it is defined by the community through which it passes and how it shapes the way the surrounding land is developed and utilized. Public Engagement Expertise The TH 61 Visioning Study represents an investment in the community. As demonstrated by our team make-up and public involvement approach, our team brings hometown credibility and a collaborative spirit to engaging the PMT and public and developing consensus toward a realistic vision that will benefit the area for decades to come. Vision Implementation A vision that lives only on paper represents unrealized goals and a waste of resources. Our multidisciplinary team brings recent local experience developing the only kind of vision that is important: an implementable one. As set forth in our work plan, we will lead Washington County, the City of Hugo, and MnDOT through the process to develop a vision that is achievable in the time frame identified, having acknowledged and set a path through the challenges and constraints. 1 2 3