File #: 2024-0084   
Type: Program Status: Passed
File created: 2/1/2024 In control: Planning and Programming Committee
On agenda: 5/15/2024 Final action: 5/23/2024
Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING $4,374,000 in Measure M High Desert Multipurpose Corridor (HDMC) funds identified in the Expenditure Plan for Right-Of-Way acquisition to be repurposed to the High Desert Corridor (HDC) Joint Powers Agency (JPA) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 work program; B. APPROVING $2,200,000 in Measure M High Desert Multipurpose Corridor (HDMC) funds identified in the Expenditure Plan for Right-Of-Way acquisition to be repurposed to complete the HDMC High Speed Rail (HSR) Service Development Plan (SDP); and C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to negotiate and execute all necessary funding agreements with the HDC JPA.
Sponsors: Program Management (Department), Maria Luk
Indexes: Agreements, Americans With Disabilities Act, Budget, Budgeting, California Environmental Quality Act, California High Speed Rail, California High Speed Rail Authority, Funding plan, Grant Aid, High Desert Corridor, High speed rail, Joint Powers Agreement, Measure M, Metro Affordable Transit Connected Housing Program, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, National Environmental Policy Act Of 1969, North Los Angeles County subregion, Palmdale, Partnerships, Plan, Program, Program Management, Project, Record Of Decision, Strategic planning
Attachments: 1. Attachment A - HDC JPA Funding Request, 2. Attachment B - HDC Corridor Map, 3. Attachment C - Metro Board Actions in Support of HDC, 4. Attachment D - HDC JPA FY25 Work Program, 5. Presentation
Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
MAY 15, 2024

Subject
SUBJECT: HIGH DESERT CORRIDOR FY25 WORK PROGRAM

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATIONS

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING $4,374,000 in Measure M High Desert Multipurpose Corridor (HDMC) funds identified in the Expenditure Plan for Right-Of-Way acquisition to be repurposed to the High Desert Corridor (HDC) Joint Powers Agency (JPA) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 work program;

B. APPROVING $2,200,000 in Measure M High Desert Multipurpose Corridor (HDMC) funds identified in the Expenditure Plan for Right-Of-Way acquisition to be repurposed to complete the HDMC High Speed Rail (HSR) Service Development Plan (SDP); and

C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to negotiate and execute all necessary funding agreements with the HDC JPA.

Issue
ISSUE

The HDC JPA has requested that Metro provide funding for the FY 25 HDC JPA work program, which includes mobilization costs leading toward a 30% design of the HDMC (Attachment A).
Background
BACKGROUND

The HDMC, a Measure M Expenditure Plan project, comprises an HSR component , which will implement a new 54-mile east-west rail alignment between the future Palmdale Multimodal HSR Station and the Brightline West Station in Victor Valley in San Bernardino County. The HDMC HSR Project (Project) will link the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line (AVL) with two future HSR lines - California HSR and Brightline West (Attachment B). Brightline West is a new privately funded HSR service that will connect Las Vegas with Victor Valley and Rancho Cucamonga.
The Project also supports the State's ambitious greenhouse gas reduction efforts and provides economic development and mobility benefits for a region that includes many historically underserved, low-income, and disadvantaged communities.
In 2016, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) completed the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review of the Proje...

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