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Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the Acting City Manager to Execute Documents Necessary to Accept Grant Funding from the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC) for the Clement Avenue East Extension and Tilden Way Project; and Increasing the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Capital Projects Fund Budget for Clement Avenue and Tilden Way Complete Streets Project (91820) by $445,000 Funded by the Gas Tax Fund and Construction Improvement Tax Fund. (Transportation 91820)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the Acting City Manager to Execute Documents Necessary to Accept Grant Funding from the Alameda County Transportation Commission for the Clement Avenue East Extension and Tilden Way Project; and Increasing the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Capital Projects Fund Budget for Clement Avenue and Tilden Way Complete Streets Project (91820) by $445,000 Funded by the Gas Tax Fund and Construction Improvement Tax Fund
BACKGROUND
The Clement Avenue East Extension/Tilden Way project has been envisioned since at least 2005, when the Cross Alameda Trail Feasibility Study was completed and adopted by the City Council. The City's Transportation Element of the General Plan, approved in 2009, references future acquisition of the railroad right-of-way for a multi-modal corridor, including bicycling and walking facilities and a continuous truck route on Clement Avenue connecting to Tilden Way. In 2009 and 2010, the City Council approved the Pedestrian Master Plan and the Bicycle Plan Update, respectively, that list the Clement Avenue east extension project.
On October 18, 2016, the City Council approved the City of Alameda's project list for submittal to the Alameda County Transportation Commission (ACTC) for funding as part of its Combined Call for Projects for its 2018 Comprehensive Investment Plan (2018 CIP) for Fiscal Years 2017-18 through 2021-22. The 2018 Capital ...
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