Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Subject
SUBJECT: STATE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
APPROVE the ATP?Point Assignment Method Planning Supplement,?as described?in Attachment A.
Issue
ISSUE
The Active Transportation Program (ATP) Point Assignment Method adopted by the Board in October 2021 (File# 2021-0587) guides Metro staff in the evaluation and selection of projects for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) regional ATP Cycle 6 competition. The adopted Point Assignment Method preceded the development and adoption of SCAG's Regional ATP Cycle 6 Guidelines, which now delegate the selection of non-infrastructure, quick-build projects, and planning projects to the SCAG region's county transportation commissions, including Metro. Because the adopted Point Assignment Method is intended to evaluate projects with direct infrastructure (capital) or non-infrastructure (program) outcomes, it is not well-suited for application to planning projects. Therefore, SCAG recommends a separate Point Assignment Method for planning projects. To adequately evaluate planning projects under the regional ATP Cycle 6 competition, Metro should adopt a Planning Supplement to its existing Point Assignment Method.
Background
BACKGROUND
The ATP is a competitive state funding program administered by the California Transportation Commission (CTC) that offers two sequential opportunities to fund LA County projects - first, through a statewide competition and second, through a regional competition within the SCAG Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) region, which encompasses LA County. All LA County candidate projects that are not awarded funding through the statewide competition, which allocates 50% of available funding, are considered in the regional MPO competition, which allocates 40% of available funding overall and is distributed based on the populat...
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