Metro - File #: 2023-0056

• File #: 2023-0056
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Filed
• File created: 1/26/2023
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 3/16/2023
• Final action: 3/16/2023
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE report on funding plans for the West Santa Ana Branch (WSAB) and Metro L (Gold) Line Foothill Extension in response to Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program Cycle 6 Grant Application Motion #49.1 (Attachment A).
• Indexes: Application, Budgeting, Capital Project, Capital Project Funds, Claremont, Committed Projects, Construction, Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority, Funding plan, Gold Line Foothill Extension 2B, Government funding, Grant Aid, Long range planning, Long Range Transportation Plan, Measure M, Measure R, Measure R and Measure M Unified Cost Management Policy, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail L Line, Motion / Motion Response, New Starts Program, Pomona, Rail transit, San Fernando, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, San Fernando Valley subregion, United States Department Of Transportation, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor (WSAB) Project
• Related files: 2023-0215

Date	Action By	Action	Result
3/23/2023	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
3/16/2023	Executive Management Committee

Meeting_Body
REVISED
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
MARCH 16, 2023

Subject
SUBJECT: FUNDING PLANS FOR EXISTING TIRCP PROJECTS AWARDED PARTIAL FUNDING

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE report on funding plans for the West Santa Ana Branch (WSAB) and Metro L (Gold) Line Foothill Extension in response to Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program Cycle 6 Grant Application Motion #49.1 (Attachment A).

Issue
ISSUE

At its December 1, 2022, meeting, the Board approved the "Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program Cycle 6 Grant Application Motion 49.1" that requests a "Report back to the Board in March 2023 with funding plans that close the funding gaps for any Existing TIRCP Projects that are awarded partial funding through Cycle 6." Metro submitted three Existing TIRCP Projects for Cycle 6 funding. East San Fernando Valley was awarded the full $600 million requested and West Santa Ana Branch (WSAB) and Metro L (Gold) Line Foothill Extension did not receive any of the funding requested.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Foothill Extension is a proposed planned extension of the Metro L Line from the current terminus in Pomona to Montclair. The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority (the Authority) is managing the construction contract to build the project to Pomona, has cleared the project to Claremont and Montclair under CEQA, and completed advanced engineering. The cost to Pomona is funded through an agreement with Metro. The Authority had planned for a the current construction project to Montclair but reduced the scope to Pomona because the cost was greater than initially anticipated upon hiring the design-build contractor. The Authority estimates the funding gap needed to extend the project is $798 million. The extension to Montclair is not in Metro's LRTP or Measure M Plan. (Line 5 in the Expenditure Plan references the project to Claremont) has been part of Metro's regional plans since the early 1990s a...