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EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 20, 2016
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SUBJECT: STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE
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RECOMMENDATION
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RECEIVE AND FILE State and Federal Legislative Report.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
Executive Management Committee
Remarks Prepared By Raffi Haig Hamparian
Government Relations Director, Federal Affairs
Chairman Fasana and members of the Executive Management Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on a number of federal matters of interest to our agency. This report was prepared on October 6, 2016 and will be updated, as appropriate, at the Executive Management Committee meeting on October 20, 2016.
Federal Grants for Fiscal Year 2016
As you are well aware Chairman Fasana, Metro celebrated the award of the largest TIGER Grant received in the State of California at the end of August. Following the award of $15 million through the U.S. Department of Transportation's TIGER Grant program for the Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation Project, Metro was awarded another grant in September through the Federal Transit Administration under the Bus and Bus Facilities Program in the amount of $10.5 million. Similar to TIGER, this award was the largest award in the State of California. The Federal funding will be used to replace some of the last remaining diesel buses being used by contract services (Bus Routes 125, 128, 130, 205, 232, 607 and 625). Metro's grant request also included an innovative workforce development component.
Most recently, just yesterday in fact, we were notified that our agency will be receiving a $2 million Transit Oriented Development Grant from the Federal Transit Administration for the West Santa Ana Branch project. This is welcome news.
We are very appreciative of the strong partnership and confidence that U.S. Department of Transportation has had and continues to have in our agency to delivery these and other critical federally funded projects.
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