TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Kristoff Bauer, ICMA - CM, Deputy City Manager
FROM: Tracey Broyles, Budget and Evaluation Director
Randy Hume, Transit Director
DATE: June 26, 2017
RE:
Title
Adoption of Capital Project Ordinance 2017-55 to Appropriate Federal Transit Administration Grant Award NC-2017-031-00 for Various Capital Items
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 4: The City of Fayetteville will be a highly desirable place to live, work and recreate with thriving neighborhoods and a high quality of life for all residents.
Executive Summary:
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has awarded the City's urban formula grant for federal fiscal year 2017. The grant includes pre-award authority for expenditures retroactive to July 1, 2016.
The grant provides $2,196,000 of federal funds for operating assistance, preventive maintenance and ADA paratransit service support. Those grant funds were appropriated with the fiscal year 2017 Transit operating budget.
The grant also provides $683,802 for capital items. Capital Project Ordinance 2017-55 will appropriate $854,752 for the $683,802 federal grant funds (80%) and the required $170,950 local match (20%) for capital items as itemized in the background section below.
Background:
The City is the Designated Recipient for federal transit grant funds apportioned to the Fayetteville urbanized area. Each year, the Transit Department must apply for use of the funds and execute a grant with the FTA in accordance with the adopted State Transit Improvement Plan (STIP). The FTA recently awarded the grant for FY 2017 with $2,978,802 of Section 5307 funding to support total planned expenditures of $4,199,752.
This grant provides $2,196,000 of federal reimbursements for preventive maintenance, ADA paratransit services, and other operating expenditures incurred from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. These funds, along wit...
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