Meeting_Body
REVISED
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
Subject
SUBJECT: ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM CYCLE 4 REGIONAL PROGRAM SCORING
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
APPROVE the assignment of up to ten points as presented in Attachment A to candidate projects for the Active Transportation Program (ATP) Cycle 4 Southern California Association of Governments' (SCAG) Regional ATP competition.
Issue
ISSUE
The ATP Cycle 4 includes regional competitions in large Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) areas - in Metro's case, the SCAG region. The ATP enabling statute, Senate Bill 99 (SB 99), requires SCAG to select projects in consultation with its member counties, which SCAG accomplishes by asking Metro and the other counties to assign points to be added to the State's score for each ATP project application (as approved in the 2019 Active Transportation Guidelines by the California Transportation Commission [CTC] in May 2018, http://www.catc.ca.gov/programs/atp//2019/docs/051618_2019_ATP_Guidelines_Final_Adopted.pdf). The point assignment is an opportunity for Metro to influence the funding for up to $47 million available for bicycle and pedestrian projects that will advance several important Metro Board initiatives. The methodology of assigning these additional points is designed to reflect the contribution of each project to advancing local and regional plans, policies, and priorities adopted by the Metro Board based on the assignment method described in Attachment B.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
The ATP Cycle 4 will distribute $446 million over four years (fiscal years 2019-20 through 2022-23), as shown in Table 1 (Funding available is based on the 2019 ATP Fund Estimate adopted by the CTC in May 2018, http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/transprog/ctcbooks/2018/0518/024_4.6.pdf ). All Los Angeles County candidate projects were submitted to the Statewide Competition administered by the CTC, which allocates 5...
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