Metro - File #: 2025-0457

• File #: 2025-0457
• Type: Program
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 5/16/2025
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 7/16/2025
• Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING the Access for All Program funding awards totaling $5,855,760 as shown in Attachment A, made available to Metro through the State of California's Access for All Program; and B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to negotiate and execute funding agreements with the entities receiving awards.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Access Services Inc., Accessibility, Budgeting, Demand responsive transportation, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, North Los Angeles County subregion, Outreach, Paratransit services, Persons with disabilities, Program, Project, Regional Grants Management Needed To Secure Funding For Capital And Operating Projects Countywide (Project), San Fernando Valley subregion, Santa Clarita, Strategic planning, Subsidies, Technical Advisory Committee, Transit System, Wheelchairs, Whittier

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PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JULY 16, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: ACCESS FOR ALL GRANT PROGRAM

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING the Access for All Program funding awards totaling $5,855,760 as shown in Attachment A, made available to Metro through the State of California's Access for All Program; and

B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to negotiate and execute funding agreements with the entities receiving awards.

Issue
ISSUE

The State's Access for All Program provides funding to increase the availability of on-demand wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) service. Metro is the administrator of these funds for Los Angeles County. Staff undertook a stakeholder outreach process and a competitive solicitation for project proposals; staff's recommended funding awards are available in Attachment A.

Background
BACKGROUND

Senate Bill (SB) 1376 requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), as part of its regulation of Transportation Network Companies (TNCs), to establish a program to improve the accessibility of persons with disability to on-demand transportation services requested through online-enabled applications or platforms. Through this program, TNCs pay a fee of $0.10 to the CPUC for each passenger trip originating in each county statewide that their providers complete. From the fees collected, the CPUC created an "Access Fund" to deposit the revenue, which is then redistributed to Local Access Fund Administrators (LAFAs). At its June 2021 meeting, the Board authorized Metro to serve as Los Angeles County's LAFA.

The CPUC requires that LAFAs use a competitive process to select and fund Access Providers to operate on-demand WAV services. The CPUC allows LAFAs to use up to 15 percent of the amount it allocates to each county to cover administrative program expenses.

In 2023, Metro released the inaugural competitive funding solicit...