DATE: February 6, 2018
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality and Surface Transportation Block Grant Project Applications
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
TITLE
1. Retroactively authorize the previous submittal of recommended projects to the Fresno Council of Governments as candidate projects for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality and Surface Transportation Block Grant Federal funding.
2. Adopt a resolution supporting and implementing timely use of funding.
REPORT
Recommended action 1 will authorize the Director of Public Works and Planning to apply to the Fresno Council of Governments (Fresno COG) for Federal funding of Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) and Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG). A recommended list of projects is shown on Attachment A. Recommended action 2 will approve a resolution supporting and implementing timely use of Federal funds, as required by Fresno COG.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION:
The CMAQ and STBG applications have been submitted to Fresno COG. Your Board can withdraw the applications for funding consideration.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. Both the CMAQ and STBG programs provide 88.53% reimbursement of project costs. Project costs will be incurred and reimbursed in future fiscal years. Sufficient appropriations to cover the 11.47% local match for any funded projects will be included in the Public Works and Planning - Roads Org 4510 requested budget.
DISCUSSION:
The CMAQ program was created under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Congress has reaffirmed their commitment to air quality/transportation funding in each Surface Transportation Act reauthorization since 1991, and the program is currently authorized in Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21). Funding can be expended on projects to reduce ozone precurso...
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