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Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Submit a Request to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for the Allocation of $125,917 in Fiscal Year 2014/2015 Transportation Development Act Article 3 Pedestrian/Bicycle Project Funding and to Execute All Necessary Documents. (Public Works 310)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: John A. Russo, City Manager
Re: Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Submit a Request to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for the Allocation of $125,917 in Fiscal Year 2014/2015 Transportation Development Act Article 3 Pedestrian/Bicycle Project Funding and to Execute All Necessary Documents
BACKGROUND
The Transportation Development Act (TDA), Public Utilities Code Sections 99233.3 and 99234, makes funds available in the nine-county Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) region for pedestrian/bicycle purposes. MTC makes annual allocations of TDA Article 3 funds to eligible claimants after review of applications submitted by counties or congestion management agencies. All cities and counties in each of the nine MTC region counties are eligible to claim funds under TDA Article 3. Joint powers agencies also are eligible. Funds are allocated and apportioned by population, and are submitted as part of a countywide coordinated TDA Article 3 claim. MTC has allocated funds for TDA Article 3 pedestrian/bicycle projects for FY14-15, which total $62,325 for the City of Alameda. In addition, MTC has an unspent allocation for the City of $63,592. Thus, a total of $125,917 is available.
DISCUSSION
For the FY14-15 TDA Article 3 funding cycle, the Public Works staff requests approval to submit three projects. The first project is Bicycle Parking for $30,000, which will install bicycle racks at various locations throughout the City based on community and business requests as well as bicycle lockers at the Webster Street/Ralph Appezzato Memorial...
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