Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JULY 18, 2018
Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE CALL FOR PROJECTS
Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
CONSIDER:
A. RECERTIFYING $161.1 million in existing Fiscal Year (FY) 2018-19 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 $9.6 million of previously approved Call funding, as shown in Attachment B, and hold in RESERVE;
C. REALLOCATING $5.3 million Call funds originally programmed to the City of Los Angeles: 1) Foothill Boulevard and Sierra Highway Intersection Improvement (#F3144), 2) Highland Avenue Widening-Odin Street to Franklin Avenue (#F3146), and 3) Sherman Way Widening Between Whitsett Avenue to Hollywood Freeway (#F7125) projects to the City of Los Angeles San Fernando Road Bike Path Phase Phase IIIA and IIIB Construction Project (#F1524 and F3515);
D. AUTHORIZING the CEO to:
1. negotiate and execute all necessary agreements and/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and
2. amend the FY 2018-19 budget, as necessary, to include the 2018 Countywide Call Recertification and Extension funding in the Subsidies budget; and
E. RECEIVING AND FILING:
1. time extensions for the 56 projects shown in Attachment D;
2. reprogram for the eight projects shown in Attachment E; and
3. an 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 extensions and reprogrammed funds granted through previously delegate...
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