DATE:
December 17, 2024
CATEGORY:
Consent
DEPT.:
Public Works
TITLE: Transportation Fund for Clean Air Grant
Funding—Various Actions
RECOMMENDATION
1. Authorize the City Manager or designee to accept Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) grant funds in the amounts of $ 131,762 and $36,700 from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.
2. Appropriate $ 131,762 from the TFCA grant to California Street (West) Complete Street Improvements, Pilot, Project 21-40. (Five votes required)
3. Appropriate $36,700 in TFCA grant funds to Active Transportation Improvements, Project 25-29. (Five votes required)
4. Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute all documents and agreements and take all necessary actions related to the TFCA grant funds.
5. Authorize the City Manager or designee to accept and appropriate additional grant funds from the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority if the additional grant funding is for the same purposes.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
On March 15, 2024, staff applied for two grants in response to the 2024-25 Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) Call for Projects. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) allocates TFCA funding for eligible projects and programs that improve transportation options, reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and decrease traffic. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is BAAQMD’s appointed County program manager for the TFCA grant. On October 3, 2024, the VTA Board of Directors approved and awarded two TFCA grants to the City for:
Transportation Fund for Clean Air Grant Funding—Various Actions December 17, 2024
• California Street Bicycle Lanes ($136,762). The grant funds can be used for the installation of new Class IV parking -protected bikeways as part of California Street (West) Complete Streets Improvements, Pilot, Project 21-40.
• Active Transportation Improvements—2025 Bicycle Parking ($36,700). The grant funds can be used for the installation of public bicycle racks at locations throughout the City to accommodate up to 240 bicycles. The project will utilize inverted U -racks: 35 six -bike capacity and 15 two-bike capacity racks.
Upon approval of the recommended actions, the City Manager or designee may execute all grant documents and agreements necessary between the City and VTA. To meet the grant conditions, the project must be completed and all TFCA grant funds expended within two years following the execution of grant agreements. As part of existing City funding for Projects 21-40 and 25-29, the City is providing matching funds to meet or exceed the minimum project eligibility criteria for project funding.
FISCAL IMPACT
California Street (West) Complete Street Improvements, Pilot, Project 21 -40, is funded with $2,870,000 from the Capital Improvement Program ( CIP) Reserve Fund, $2,265,000 from the 2016 Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Measure B Sales Tax —Local Streets and Roads Program Fund, and $760,000 from the San Antonio Public Benefits Fund, for a total project budget of $5, 895,000. Active Transportation Improvements, Project 25 -29, is funded with $1,000,000 from the Construction/Conveyance Tax Fund. Acceptance and appropriation of t he TFCA grant funds will increase the budgets in Projects 21-40 and 25- 29 $ 6,026,762 and $1,036,700, respectively.
LEVINE ACT
California Government Code Section 84308 (also known as the Levine Act) prohibits city officials from participating in any proceeding involving a “license, permit, or other entitlement for use” if the official has received a campaign contribution exceeding $250 from a party, participant, or agent of a party or participant in the proceeding within the last 12 months. A city official is similarly prohibited from accepting, soliciting, or directing a campaign contribution exceeding $250 from a party, particip ant, or agent of a party or participant to any proceeding involving a license, permit, or other entitlement for use for 12 months after a final decision is rendered in said proceeding.
Please refer to the “X” in the checklist below for information about whether the recommended action for this agenda item is subject to or exempt from the Levine Act.
Transportation Fund for Clean Air Grant Funding—Various Actions December 17, 2024
SUBJECT TO THE LEVINE ACT
___ Land development entitlements
___ Other permit, license, or entitlement for use
_x_ Contract or franchise
EXEMPT FROM THE LEVINE ACT
___ Competitively bid contract
___ Labor or personal employment contract
___ General policy and legislative actions
For more information about the Levine Act, please see the Fair Political Practices Commission website: www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/pay-to-play-limits-and-prohibitions.html.
ALTERNATIVES
1. Do not authorize acceptance and appropriation of the TFCA grant funds.
2. Provide other direction.
PUBLIC NOTICING
Agenda posting and distribution to the Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Vision Zero, and Active Transportation Plan subscribers.
Prepared by:
Ria Hutabarat Lo
Transportation Manager
Reviewed by:
Edward Arango
Assistant Public Works Director/
City Engineer
Approved by:
Jennifer Ng
Public Works Director
Audrey Seymour Ramberg
Assistant City Manager
RHL/LL/4/CAM
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cc: APWD—Arango, TM –Lo, PCE —Gonzales, TP—Whyte, SCE—Cervantes, ACE—Nguyen, SMA—Goedicke, SMA—Doan, PA—Li, F (21-40, 25-29)