Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
MARCH 19, 2025
Subject
SUBJECT: COMPLETION OF SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM-LOCAL (STP-L) ANNUAL APPORTIONMENTS TO LOCAL AGENCIES
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
AUTHORIZE:
A. the reallocation of $25.74 million of Proposition C discretionary funds from the Access Services (Access) budget to fulfill unprogrammed STP-L funding program balances and;
B. the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to execute STP-L balance fulfillment agreements with local agencies, allowing them to receive their unprogrammed STP-L balances using available non-federal Metro funds.
Issue
ISSUE
Metro had historically apportioned, on an annual basis, $31 million of Federal (STBG) formula funding by Metro to agencies in Los Angeles County based on population through the STP-L funding program to deliver basic maintenance projects that did not have air quality impacts, such as pavement rehabilitation and slurry seal projects. In 2021 and 2022, the federal government issued Corrective Actions to Caltrans and the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), respectively, finding that this practice was out of compliance with STBG funding requirements. While Metro can no longer apportion STBG funds to agencies based on population, several agencies still have STP-L fund balances from previous apportionments.
During the outreach process for the first SCAG Corrective Action Call for Project Nominations, several agencies and subregions requested that Metro develop a method by which the STP-L balances could be fulfilled by Metro with non-federal funds. The proposed action will shift an equivalent amount of local discretionary funds from Access, the Consolidated Transportation Services Agency (CTSA) that provides paratransit services throughout Los Angeles County, Proposition C budget to fulfill the fund balances from the former STP-L program to local jurisdictions.
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