Metro - File #: 2021-0767

• File #: 2021-0767
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Passed
• File created: 11/22/2021
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 12/2/2021
• Final action: 12/2/2021
• Title: APPROVE Motion by Directors Solis, Hahn, Barger, Sandoval, and Butts that the Board of Directors direct the Chief Executive Officer to: A. Collaborate with the SGVCOG to evaluate the cost increases for the three projects and potential strategies such as value engineering to close the funding gap; B. Explore funding streams such as grant funding and other sources to help the SGVCOG secure sufficient funding to complete all three projects, with priority placed on securing full funding for the grade separation projects prior to the CTC funding allocation vote by no later than June 2022; C. Assist and collaborate with SGVCOG in developing Project Labor Agreements for the two grade separation projects to prioritize partnerships with labor in expeditiously advancing construction of the grade separation projects and the employment of Los Angeles County workers; D. Report back on all directives in March 2021 2022.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Alameda Corridor East, California Transportation Commission, City of Industry, Construction, Gateway Cities subregion, Grade separations, Hacienda Heights, Hilda Solis, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Kathryn Barger, Montebello, Motion / Motion Response, Pomona, Program, Project, Prop 1b - Highway and Port Safety and Air Quality Bond Act, Safety, San Gabriel, San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, Tim Sandoval
• Related files: 2024-0407, 2022-0470, 2022-0608

Date	Action By	Action	Result
12/2/2021	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting

Meeting_Body
REVISED
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
DECEMBER 2, 2021

Preamble
Motion by:

DIRECTORS SOLIS, HAHN, BARGER, SANDOVAL, AND BUTTS

Alameda Corridor-East Projects

The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (SGVCOG) intends to seek the allocation of previously programmed state funds for the final two Alameda Corridor-East (ACE) grade separation projects by vote of the California Transportation Commission (CTC) by no later than June 2022. However, due to extraordinary recent increases in construction phase and right-of-way costs as experienced by multiple public projects across the transportation infrastructure sector in Southern California, a shortfall in local match funds to the state funds has developed. If local match is not timely secured, the ACE Project will forfeit a total of $116,851,000 in state funds programmed to the Montebello Boulevard grade separation project and the Turnbull Canyon Road grade separation project and committed from the following state programs: Proposition 1B Trade Corridor Improvement Fund ($18,851,000), 2018 SB1 Trade Corridor Enhancement Program ($78,000,000), and Section 190 priority grade separation funds ($20,000,000).

Since inception of the ACE Project in 1998, SGVCOG has successfully secured federal, state and local funding and cost-efficiently implemented the design and construction of the ACE Project, a series of rail-highway grade separation and at-grade safety projects in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County.

The ACE Project was among 25 projects in the nation designated in the federal SAFETEA-LU transportation program legislation in 2005 as Projects of National and Regional Significance, nationally recognized as enhancing the safe, secure, and efficient movement of people and goods through the U.S. to improve the national economy. At the state level, the ACE Project was awarded funding from the 2006 Prop 1B Trade Corridor Improvement Fund intended for infrastructure improvements along federally designate...