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PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JULY 17, 2019
Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE CALL FOR PROJECTS
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
CONSIDER:
A. RECERTIFYING $75.2 million in existing Fiscal Year (FY) 2019-20 commitments from previously approved Countywide Call for Projects (Call) and AUTHORIZING the expenditure of funds to meet these commitments as shown in Attachment A;
B. DEOBLIGATING $12.3 million of previously approved Call funding, as shown in Attachment B, ALLOCATING $11 million to fulfill the countywide light rail yard cost allocation commitment and hold the remaining $1.3 million in RESERVE;
C. AUTHORIZING the CEO to:
1. Negotiate and execute all necessary agreements and/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and
2. Amend the FY 2019-20 budget, as necessary, to include the 2019 Countywide Call Recertification and Extension funding in the Subsidies budget;
D. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for:
1. City of Burbank - San Fernando Bikeway (#F1502);
2. City of Los Angeles - LADOT Streets for People: Parklets and Plazas (#F7814);
3. City of Long Beach - 1st Street Pedestrian Gallery (#F9628);
4. City of San Fernando - San Fernando Pacoima Wash Bike Path (#F1505);
5. City of South El Monte - Civic Center and Interjurisdictional Bicycle Lanes (#F5516); and
E. RECEIVING AND FILING:
1. Time extensions for 63 projects shown in Attachment D;
2. Reprogramming for eight projects shown in Attachment E; and
3. Update on future countywide Call considerations
Issue
ISSUE
Each year the Board must recertify funding for projects that were approved through prior Calls in order to release the funds to the 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 Metro's Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). The Board must also receive and file the ext...
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