Metro - File #: 2022-0447

• File #: 2022-0447
• Type: Program
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/30/2022
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 8/25/2022
• Final action: 8/25/2022
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECERTIFYING $16.6 million in existing Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 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 $0.65 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 2022-23 budget, as necessary, to include the 2022 Countywide Call Recertification and Extension funding in the Subsidies budget; D. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for: 1. City of Bell - Florence Avenue Pedestrian Improvements (#F7634); and E. RECEIVING AND FILING: 1. time extensions for 69 projects shown in Attachment D; and 2. reprogram for five projects shown in Attachment E.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Agreements, Bell, Budget, Budgeting, Call For Projects, Call For Projects Deobligation, Call For Projects Extension, Call for Projects Recertification, Call for Projects Reprogramming, Congestion Mitigation And Air Quality Improvement Program, Deobligation, Flexible Funds, Grant Aid, Long Range Transportation Plan, Maps, Program, Project, Project delivery, Proposition C, Regional Surface Transportation Program, Repayment of Capital Project Loan Funds, Strategic planning, Subsidies, Technical Advisory Committee
• Related files: 2022-0653

Date	Action By	Action	Result
8/25/2022	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
8/17/2022	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
AUGUST 17, 2022

Subject
SUBJECT: COUNTYWIDE CALL FOR PROJECTS

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECERTIFYING $16.6 million in existing Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23 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 $0.65 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 2022-23 budget, as necessary, to include the 2022 Countywide Call Recertification and Extension funding in the Subsidies budget;

D. APPROVING changes to the scope of work for:
1. City of Bell - Florence Avenue Pedestrian Improvements (#F7634); and

E. RECEIVING AND FILING:
1. time extensions for 69 projects shown in Attachment D; and
2. reprogram for five 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 extensions and reprogrammed funds granted through previously delegated Board authority. The background and discussion of each of these recommendations can be found in Attachment C.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Call, an existing competitive grant program dating back to the early 1990s, programs transportation funds to local jurisdictions for regionally significant projects that are often beyond the fiscal capabilities ...