Metro - File #: 2021-0407

• File #: 2021-0407
• Type: Program
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/2/2021
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 7/22/2021
• Final action: 7/22/2021
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECERTIFYING $12.78 million in existing Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22 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 $12.47 million of previously approved Call funding, as shown in Attachment B, and hold in RESERVE; C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to: 1. negotiate and execute all necessary agreements and/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and 2. amend the FY 2021-22 budget, as necessary, to include the 2021 Countywide Call Recertification and Extension funding in the Subsidies budget; D. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for: 1. City of Glendale - Purchase of Alternative Fuel Buses for Glendale Beeline (#F9435) 2. City of Lawndale - Redondo Beach Boulevard Improvements (#F9101) 3. City of Los Angeles - Stocker/MLK Crenshaw Access to Expo LRT Station (#F3409) 4. City of Los Angeles - Intera...
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Agreements, Budget, Budgeting, Bus Acquisitions, Call For Projects, Call For Projects Deobligation, Call For Projects Extension, Call for Projects Recertification, Call for Projects Reprogramming, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Congestion Mitigation And Air Quality Improvement Program, Deobligation, Flexible Funds, Glendale, Grant Aid, Lawndale, Long Range Transportation Plan, Maps, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Program, Project, Project delivery, Proposition C, Regional Surface Transportation Program, Repayment of Capital Project Loan Funds, San Fernando Valley subregion, South Bay Cities subregion, Subsidies, Technical Advisory Committee, Westside Cities subregion

Date	Action By	Action	Result
7/22/2021	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
7/14/2021	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JULY 14, 2021

Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE CALL FOR PROJECTS

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECERTIFYING $12.78 million in existing Fiscal Year (FY) 2021-22 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 $12.47 million of previously approved Call funding, as shown in Attachment B, and hold in RESERVE;

C. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or their designee to:
1. negotiate and execute all necessary agreements and/or amendments for previously awarded projects; and
2. amend the FY 2021-22 budget, as necessary, to include the 2021 Countywide Call Recertification and Extension funding in the Subsidies budget;

D. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for:
1. City of Glendale - Purchase of Alternative Fuel Buses for Glendale Beeline (#F9435)
2. City of Lawndale - Redondo Beach Boulevard Improvements (#F9101)
3. City of Los Angeles - Stocker/MLK Crenshaw Access to Expo LRT Station (#F3409)
4. City of Los Angeles - Interactive Bicycle Board Demo Project (#F7708)
5. City of Los Angeles - LADOT Streets for People: Parklets and Plazas (#F7814); and
6. City of Los Angeles - Slauson Avenue: Western Avenue to Crenshaw Boulevard Project (#F9204); and

E. RECEIVING AND FILING:
1. time extensions for 66 projects shown in Attachment D; and
2. reprogram for nine projects shown in Attachment E.

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 ex...