Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 16, 2026
Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE CALL FOR PROJECTS
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
CONSIDER:
A. DEOBLIGATING $2.23 million of previously approved Call for Projects (Call) funding, as shown in Attachment A, and held in reserve;
B. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for the City of Long Beach – 1st Street Pedestrian Gallery (#F9628);
C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to negotiate and execute all necessary agreements/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and
D. RECEIVING AND FILING time extensions for 46 projects shown in Attachment B.
Issue
ISSUE
Each year the Board must recertify funding for prior Call projects in order to release the funds to project sponsors. The Board must also approve the deobligation of lapsing project funds after providing project sponsors with the opportunity to appeal staff’s preliminary deobligation recommendations to the Metro Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). The Board must also approve major changes to the project scope of work for previously approved Call projects. Staff have evaluated the proposed changes and found that they are consistent with the intent of the original scope of work. The Board must also receive and file the time extensions granted through previously delegated Board authority.
Background
BACKGROUND
The Call, an existing competitive grant program dating back to the early 1990s, programmed $4.7 billion (close to 1,400 projects) in a variety of transportation funds, such as federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality (CMAQ), Regional Surface Transportation Program (RSTP), and local Proposition C 25% funds, to local jurisdictions for regionally significant projects that are often beyond the financial capabilities of local sponsors at that time. The last Call cycle, including all funding commitments and project scopes of work, was approved by the Boar...
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