Issaquah City Council challenger Tim Flood has released a $153 million proposed bond package for funding transportation projects in the city.

Dubbing the proposal Address The Mess, Flood said the package would focus city resources on Issaquah’s outlying neighborhoods ahead of the downtown core. Flood, a resident of Issaquah’s West Lake Sammamish Parkway neighborhoods, developed his plan from projects already listed in the city’s transportation concurrency plan and six-year Transportation Improvement Program while positioning it as an alternative that re-prioritizes listed projects.

“I think we should address our current congestion and make good on the promises made to annexed areas of the city before we are asked to fund dense growth in Central Issaquah,” Flood said in a press release. “Any package based on our concurrency plan puts growth ahead of citizen sentiment and we deserve better than that.”

In a follow-up interview with the Reporter, Flood said he used his professional background in data analysis to find overlap between projects noted in the TIP and transportation concurrency. With that information, he built Address The Mess around a blend of big ticket projects — such as those on Front Street, Interstate 90 and State Route 500 — and outlying neighborhood projects, like a Providence Point traffic light, which Flood said were based on his conversations with voters.

“If we don’t take action to address the existing backlog for neighborhoods’ priorities, we may never,” Flood said.