Metro - File #: 2016-0762

• File #: 2016-0762
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/15/2016
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 10/19/2016
• Final action: 10/27/2016
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to adopt: A. the attached resolution (Attachment A) authorizing the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or the CEO's Designee to negotiate, execute, and file federal, state, regional and local funding documents for Board-approved projects and activities; and B. the attached resolution (Attachment B) authorizing the CEO or the CEO's Designee to execute and file Federal Transit Administration funding documents for Board-approved projects and activities.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Federal Transit Administration, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Grant Aid, Resolution, Transit boards

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/27/2016	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
10/19/2016	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 19, 2016

Subject/Action
SUBJECT: AUTHORIZATION TO NEGOTIATE, EXECUTE AND FILE FEDERAL, STATE, REGIONAL AND LOCAL FUNDING DOCUMENTS
ACTION: AUTHORIZE CEO OR DESIGNEE TO NEGOTIATE, EXECUTE AND FILE FEDERAL, STATE, REGIONAL AND LOCAL FUNDING DOCUMENTS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to adopt:

A. the attached resolution (Attachment A) authorizing the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or the CEO's Designee to negotiate, execute, and file federal, state, regional and local funding documents for Board-approved projects and activities; and

B. the attached resolution (Attachment B) authorizing the CEO or the CEO's Designee to execute and file Federal Transit Administration funding documents for Board-approved projects and activities.

Issue
ISSUE

For Metro to apply and be awarded grants or other grant-related funding assistance, the Board of Directors must adopt certain resolutions allowing the CEO or the CEO's Designee to negotiate, execute and file funding documents on behalf of Metro. Funding documents may include agreements, contracts, memoranda of understanding, certifications, assurances, and all other necessary covenant documentation required to secure federal, state, regional and local revenue sources for Board-approved projects and activities. The current resolution was originally adopted in 1995 and re-certified in 2005.
Discussion
DISCUSSION

Currently, we have a general authorizing resolution that covers all fund source types and which the Board of Directors last re-certified a little over ten years ago. The Board originally adopted the first authorizing resolution on November 20, 1995, and that resolution allowed us to do what we needed administratively to secure federal, state, and local funding for Board-approved transportation projects and activities. That general resolution also authorized the CEO or the CEO's Designee to provide any additional inform...