TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Telly C. Whitfield, PhD, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Randy Hume, Transit Director
Kelly Olivera, Budget and Evaluation Director
DATE: June 27, 2022
RE:
Title
Adoption of a Resolution to Approve Submission of a Grant Application to the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for Urban Capital Matching Funds
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 4: Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
Objective 4.1: Maintain public transportation investments with high quality transit and airport services
Executive Summary:
Council is asked to adopt a Public Transportation Program Resolution for a competitive grant application to the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for $318,000 of Urban Capital Matching Funds to match approved FTA grants for bus purchases.
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded grant NC-2021-023-00 to the City for numerous capital, planning and operating projects. City Council appropriated the capital portion of this grant with Capital Project Ordinance (CPO) 2021-24 in June 2021 which included local matching funds comprised of $459,725 of City funding and $255,500 of grant funds from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) from the Volkswagen (VW) emissions settlement.
The Integrated Mobility Division of NCDOT has announced a "call for projects" for state capital matching funds. Bus replacement projects are eligible for NCDOT funding under this program. The proposed application will seek NCDOT funding for: $114,000 to match the FTA grant for battery-electric buses (15% of total cost less the VW settlement funding); and $204,000 or 10% of the total cost for the diesel buses in the grant.
The attached resolution is required as part of the application process and authorizes staff to submit applications to NCDOT for consideration for funding. Applications must be submitted no la...
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