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COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT TEM Nu ER.
FROM: Ken Hampian, Assistant City Administrative Officerxe
Prepared by: Harry Watson, Transit Manager
SUBJECT: Transit Capital Improvement Grant Application: Multi-
Modal Center Siting and Preliminary Engineering
CAO RECOMMENDATION:
1. Adopt a resolution committing $20, 000 in 1992-93 City TDA
funds to serve as a 50% local match toward a Transit Capital
Improvement (TCI) grant.
2. Approve the local match contingent upon the San Luis Obispo
Regional Transit Authority providing a $10, 000 contribution
to the City as a their share of the local match requirement.
DISCUSSION:
Early in FY 1991-92 staff submitted an application for a TCI grant '
in the amount of $40,000 to fund a more detailed study of a Multi-
Modal Transit Transfer Center Relocation Project to serve the City
and Regional bus systems. The Council's approval of a transfer
center relocation, including the pursuit of grant funds to support
further study, came out of our Short Range Transit Plan adopted
last November. TCI grants require a 50% local match.
Several meetings between City staff and the staffs of the San Luis
Obispo Area Coordinating Council (SLOACC) and California
Transportation Commission (CTC) had previously indicated that our
grant application would not be approved. The reason for the denial
was the fact that CTC was not interested in funding non-
construction, non-rolling stock grant applications.
Continued negotiations in early March have resulted in the CTC
staff agreeing to possibly recommending grant funding for our
siting and preliminary engineering study. To strengthen the City's
application, on March 9, 1992, Area Coordinating Council staff
provided City staff with a resolution to be adopted in advance of
the CTC formally acting on the grant application. The CTC will
take action following a public hearing on March 19, 1992. The
resolution commits the City to the 50% grant match requirement.
Success in obtaining the grant is also dependent upon Area
Coordinating Council reprioritization of local projects, set to
occur on March 18, 1992. Area Council staff is supportive of the
reprioritization, and approval is expected.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Ultimately, the estimated $40, 000 study would be funded as follows:
RECEIVED
MAR 1 2 1992 "
CITY CLERK
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COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
TCI Grant - $20, 000
SLO Transit - $10, 000 (local match)
Regional Transit - $10. 000 (local match)
$40, 000
We have a commitment from the San Luis Obispo Regional Transit
Authority (SLORTA) staff to back a 50-50 split of the $20, 000 local
match required for the TCI grant. The SLORTA Board will be asked
to approve this contribution at a meeting in April. The City will
need to front the money, as we will be the grantee of record.
SLORTA's $10, 000 contribution will be in the form of a
reimbursement to the City. The actual grant match will not be
required until 1992-93, and can be budgeted for in the 1992-93
transit budget with the assurance of SLORTA's
reimbursement.
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RESOLUTION NO. (1992 SERIES)
A RESOLUTION OF COMMITMENT FOR THE LOCAL MATCH BY THE
CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO CONCERNING A REQUEST FOR
TRANSIT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS FOR FY 1992/93
WHEREAS, the City of San Luis Obispo has conducted a
consultant study to analyze potential locations for a multimodal
transit center; and
WHEREAS, the City of San Luis Obispo is the hub of the
consolidated regional transit system and construction of a Transit
Transfer facility is a priority of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, the Area Council provides technical assistance
(resource information, grants assistance, coordination and support)
to public and private sector organizations to improve transit
opportunities; and
WHEREAS, the City of San- Luis Obispo has applied for $20, 000
under the Transit Capital Improvement Program; and
WHEREAS, completed environmental and preliminary engineering
studies will greatly enhance the project's competitiveness for
funding under Proposition 116; and
WHEREAS, the California Transportation Commission (CTC)
requests evidence of a local commitment to provide the match be
presented at the CTC meeting on March 19, 1992; and
WHEREAS, the Transit Transfer Facility project requires a 50%
-local match of the total project cost ($40, 000) .
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the City Council of the City of San
Luis Obispo hereby commits to funding its local share ($20, 000) of
the total project cost if the project is approved for funding by
the California Transportation Commission and included in the
Governor's 1992-93 approved budget.
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Resolution No. (1992 Resolution)
Upon motion of seconded by
and on the following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
the foregoing resolution was adopted this day of
1992.
MAYOR RON DUNIN
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVED:
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