Metro - File #: 2019-0758

• File #: 2019-0758
• Type: Application
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 10/1/2019
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 11/20/2019
• Title: AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to prioritize projects, commit funding match and submit grant applications to California's Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program as detailed in Attachment A.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Application, Board approved a Motion, Bus Acquisitions, C Line (Green) Extension to Torrance, Capital Project, Committed Projects, Contracts, Customer service, Double track, El Segundo Station, Evaluation and assessment, Funding plan, Gold Line Foothill Extension 2B, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, Lancaster, Long Range Transportation Plan, Metro Blue Line, Metro Equity Platform, Metro Green Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Metrolink, Multiple unit trains, Procurement, Program, Project, Project delivery, Purchasing, Rail transit, Rehabilitation (Maintenance), Ridership, Ridesourcing, Safety, State Of Good Repair, Strategic planning, Testing, Torrance

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: TRANSIT AND INTERCITY RAIL CAPITAL PROGRAM GRANT APPLICATIONS

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer to prioritize projects, commit funding match and submit grant applications to California's Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program as detailed in Attachment A.

Issue
ISSUE

On October 18, 2019, the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) announced its Call for Projects for the 2020 Cycle 4 Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP). Grant applications are due by January 16, 2020. CalSTA requires applicants to identify and provide evidence of the amount and sources of funds committed to the projects, as well as to prioritize and explain the prioritization of their applications. CalSTA also requires applicants to use project cost estimates approved by the Chief Executive Officer or other authorized officer. Attachment A details the funding match commitment, prioritization, and costs for the three projects we have identified through our Evaluative Criteria Framework and our assessment of the TIRCP Project Evaluation Criteria as being the most competitive for 2020 Cycle 4 grant awards.

Background
BACKGROUND

The TIRCP was authorized by State of California law to fund transformative capital improvements that modernize California's transit systems, including bus and rail, to achieve all of the following policy objectives:

* reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
* expand and improve transit service to increase ridership
* integrate the rail service of the state's various rail operations (including integration with the high-speed rail system); and
* improve transit safety

It is also the goal of the program to maximize benefits to disadvantaged communities and low-income communities and households. At least 25 percent of the available funding must be for projects that provide a direct, me...