Susana Alcala Wood, City Attorney Jorge Oseguera, City Auditor Mindy Cuppy, City Clerk Howard Chan, City Manager John Colville, City Treasurer City Council Report
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File ID: 2022-00084 January 18, 2022 Consent Item 13
Title: 2022 Clean California Local Grant Program Applications
Location: Various locations, Districts 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution: 1) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to submit the following projects to the Clean California Local Grant Program: a) 21 st
Avenue Art Walk; b) 24th Street Bypass Park/Joint Use Facility; c) Hanami Line at Matsui Park; d) Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys; e) Art Installations on Del Rio Trail; and f) Florin Road Community Beautification Project; 2) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to submit any related documents necessary to support the grant applications; and 3) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to execute the grant agreements and any related grant documents upon award by the California Department of Transportation.
Contact: Lucinda Willcox, Program Manager, (916) 808-5052, [email protected] ,
Department of Public Works; Raymond Costantino, Park Planning, Design, and Development Manager (916) 808-1941,
[email protected], Department of Youth, Parks, and Community Enrichment; Tyler Stratton, Program Specialist, (916) 808-1284, [email protected], Department of Utilities; Megan Van Voorhis, Cultural & Creative Economy Manager, (916) 808-5979, [email protected], Department of Convention & Cultural Services
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
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Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Clean California program includes funding for a variety of actions to address waste reduction in the public right of way. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 3 will be implementing some projects directly in the freeway rights-of-way. In addition, Caltrans has issued a call for projects for the competitive Clean California Local Grants Program. The Clean California Local Grant Program has the following goals:
• Reduce the amount of waste and debris within public rights-of-way, pathways, parks, transit centers, and other public spaces.
• Enhance, rehabilitate, restore, or install measures to beautify and improve public spaces and mitigate the urban heat island effect.
• Enhance public health, cultural connection, and community placemaking by improving public spaces for walking and recreation.
• Advance equity for underserved communities.
Grant applications are due February 1, 2022. The maximum grant request per project is $5 million.
As the grant covered many separate policy goals, City staff from many departments evaluated potential projects and selected those that best meet the goals and purpose of this grant program. A significant factor is the requirement for the project to be completed and open to the public no later than June 30, 2024, which eliminates the time required to incorporate any soil remediation or pursuit of permits or encroachment permits, so this excluded some possible project candidates. The local grant is therefore focused on areas outside freeway rights-of-way and underpasses. In addition, the grant criteria focus on projects that serve disadvantaged communities, with the requirements for local match based on the severity of disadvantage in the surrounding area.
Based upon the stated goals of the grant programs, community benefit, and availability of any required local match funds, staff recommends submittal of the following six projects for funding, in no particular order of priority: 1) 21
st Avenue Art Walk; 2) 24th Street Bypass
Park/Joint Use Facility; 3) Hanami Line at Matsui Park; 4) Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys; 5) Art Installations on Del Rio Trail; and 6) Florin Road Community Beautification Project. Individual project funding requests may range from $900,000 up to $5 million. The grant has $296 million available statewide, so it is unlikely that all these projects will be funded.
As this is a new state grant program that currently was approved with funding only for this round, City staff hopes that by demonstrating the need and quality of potential projects, it will help make the case for funding future grant rounds.
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Policy Considerations: These projects are consistent with a variety of City policies to support additional parks and public spaces, active transportation, litter abatement, and improvements to public facilities, including the following policies listed below:
M 1.3.4 Barrier Removal for Accessibility - The City shall remove barriers, where feasible, to allow people of all abilities to move freely and efficiently throughout the city.
M 5.1.9 Conversion of Underused Facilities - The City shall convert underused rights-of- way, including drainage canals, freeway easements, railroad corridors, and underutilized travel and parking lanes to bikeways bicycle and/or pedestrian facilities where possible and appropriate.
U 4.1.5 Green Stormwater Infrastructure - The City shall encourage “green infrastructure” design and Low Impact Development (LID) techniques for stormwater facilities (i.e., using vegetation and soil to manage stormwater) to achieve multiple benefits (e.g., preserving and creating open space, improving runoff water quality).
PHS 5.1.9 Healthy Communities - The City shall encourage the planning of new communities and revitalization of existing urban areas to achieve improvements in overall public health by encouraging a healthier living environment that includes walkable neighborhoods, access to recreation and open space, healthy foods, medical services, and public transit.
Creative Edge Cultural Plan 5.1 - The City of Sacramento’s Creative Edge cultural plan calls for celebrating and infusing all Sacramento neighborhoods and districts with arts and culture. It calls for supporting and expanding neighborhood-based programming and creative placemaking through community- and artist-initiated projects as well as artist-designed neighborhood markers.
In addition, seeking external funding to support drainage improvements supports the City’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) adopted by the City Council in May 2017.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines, continuing administrative activities such as grant applications do not constitute a project and are therefore exempt from review. Any projects that are awarded grant funding will undergo necessary environmental review.
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Sustainability: This grant is intended to reduce waste and debris in public spaces and to support actions to promote greening and mitigate the urban heat island effect.
Commission/Committee Action: None.
Rationale for Recommendation: The projects identified in this report meet the objectives of the Clean California Local Grant Program. Award of grant funds will provide funding for investments to support clean, green, and active unique public spaces to serve communities most in need.
Financial Considerations: A total of $296 million in grant funding for the local grant portion of the Clean California Grant Program is available statewide with a cap of $5 million in grant funds per application. The grant’s funding requirements require between 0 and 50% in local match requirements, depending on the severity of disadvantage for the grant program as determined by Caltrans formula.
The specific source of local funds will be allocated to projects after determining which projects are awarded grants. Depending on which project is awarded, sources may include local transportation funds, park development impact fees, drainage impact fees, and contributions from non-profit agencies. Staff has examined potential local match requirements for each project and identified potential matching funds if grant funding is awarded.
Staff will return to Council to establish Capital Improvement Projects and for any necessary budget adjustments and other actions if and when specific grants are awarded.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Background: Staff reviewed the Clean California Local Grant Program Guidelines and found that these projects meet the grant requirements and the following selection criteria:
Demonstrated need of the applicant and ability to achieve the program’s goals. Demonstrated enhancement and beautification of a public space(s), including improved access to the space.
Enhanced greening to provide shade, reduce the urban heat island effect, and use native, drought-tolerant plants.
Abatement of litter and debris to improve access and use of public space(s). Public engagement that reflects community priorities and is consistent with local or regional plans such as General Plans, Improvement Plans, bicycle and/or pedestrian plans, and complete street plans. The project should also align with the public outreach that occurred during the preparation of these plans.
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Identification of the population benefit, including to underserved communities. Projects that demonstrate a benefit to an underserved community, either directly or indirectly, will be more competitive. For these projects, applicants must explain which underserved community is benefited, how the project benefits that community, and the percentage of the work and budget that benefits that community.
Project deliverability, in which projects are open to public and/or all funds are expended by June 30, 2024.
Full detail on the program is available on the website at:
https://cleancalifornia.dot.ca.gov/local-grants/workshops-milestones
The following summarizes the projects proposed for application. Note, the projects are not prioritized and not listed in specific order.
21 st Avenue Art Corridor (District 5): This project would connect a Caltrans-planned Clean California grant that will add murals in the SR99 underpass at 21st Avenue by creating an art walk along 21st Avenue to Franklin Boulevard with pedestrian improvements to Ethel Philips Elementary school. The project will include five murals between Ethel Philips Elementary and the SR99 underpass, utility box art, widening sidewalks where feasible, replacement of dirt ditches with bioretention swales to mitigate trash accumulation and adding trees on Ethel Philips Elementary school adjacent to the sidewalk.
The project is sponsored by the Franklin Boulevard Business Association with key neighborhood partnerships.
24 th Street Bypass Joint Park/Detention Basin (District 8): This project would provide for a development of a joint park/detention basin on a vacant property planned for a detention basin and improvements to existing park across 24
th Street. Drainage Basin 54 serves roughly 240
acres in the south side of the City of Sacramento, in the Meadowview-Gardendale neighborhood. The performance of the existing drainage system for basin 54 was evaluated in 2014 for simulated 10- and 100-year storm events at build-out. Results of the model showed street flooding and public safety hazards were predicted. This includes high surface overflow depth and velocity and emergency services disruption. On 65 th Avenue, where flooding is
predicted to be the deepest, some homes were only 0.2 feet above the 100-year flood. At this level, garages and parked cars suffer significant damage.
Alternative analysis identified that the addition of a detention basin at the 24th Street -25th Street would be a cost-effective improvement that would meet current City drainage goals and performance standards. In 2015, the department constructed a drainage pipeline that will be connected to the future detention basin at this site. For this project, the City will construct the detention basin with sides
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assumed to be terraced or vertical with an ADA/vehicle access ramp on the south corner. The basin shall be graded at 2% towards the new 42” drainage outfall on the east of the property.
This area is also identified as park deficient. Irrigation and turf improvements will be made to the detention basin area, as well as installation of hardscape improvements and recreational amenities in the existing park. Improvements to the recreational capacity of this park increases utilization by residents, supports the natural resources within the park, and will provide multiple benefits to the surrounding communities. With implementation of stormwater management features, the park provides increased opportunity to absorb rainwater, recharge groundwater supplies, and allow storm runoff to be released at a slower pace. These benefits also decrease the required capacity for engineered citywide stormwater management systems and leads to significant savings in water treatment costs.
Hanami Line at Robert T. Matsui Park (District 4): This project is sponsored by the Sacramento Tree Foundation on public property adjacent to the new Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC). The Sacramento Tree Foundation (STF) will install flowering cherry trees, additional decorative waterwise grasses and vegetation throughout the park, decomposed granite areas for programming spaces, decorative benches, step seating, decorative shade structures, pathways, and an art installation.
The park is primarily unused as a unique space and acts as a passthrough for pedestrians and walkers using the adjacent public path along the levee. The waste receptacles are often overflowing with trash littering the area between trash pick-up days. The revitalization of the park will create a destination spot to complement MOSAC, the Railyards project, Old Sacramento, the new I Street Bridge connecting corridor, and other revitalization projects in the area.
Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys (District 2): This project would include permeable pavement and other alley activation measures to transform alleys into usable public spaces. Greening would include replacing unimproved dirt and gravel alleys with engineered permeable pavers to control stormwater runoff and create an attractive surface to encourage outdoor recreation. Opportunities would be identified to install art in public places including but not limited to locally relevant murals. Trees could be installed in the alleys or on adjacent properties to support greening of the alleys. Where feasible, LED lighting would be installed to enhance safety and extend the time available for outdoor recreation and to enhance safety.
Art Installations on Del Rio Trail (District 5 and 7): The Sacramento Southern Railroad’s Walnut Grove Branch Line formerly occupied a north‐south corridor that runs through the Land Park, South Land Park, Freeport Manor, Z’Berg, Pocket, and Meadowview neighborhoods between Interstate 5 and Freeport Boulevard. Abandoned since 1978, this corridor is approved for construction of 4.8 miles of Class I multi‐use trail along the abandoned railway corridor west
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of Freeport Boulevard from south of Meadowview Road/Pocket Road to the Sacramento River Parkway north of Sutterville Road. The Del Rio Trail Project consists of a Class I multi‐use trail (12 to 16 feet of pavement with unpaved shoulders generally ranging from 2 to 3 feet). In locations where the trail directly abuts existing rail, the shoulder is widened to 5 feet and the tracks are preserved in decomposed granite, concrete, or other material but visible. The Del Rio Trail will also include at‐grade crossings and intersection modifications at each location where the trail intersects a vehicular roadway.
To support the Del Rio Trail effort, the Clean California grant would provide for public art, which will play an important role in celebrating and reconnecting the community to its natural landscapes along the Del Rio Trail. A team of artists will develop and execute on concepts and designs for improving the aesthetics, safety, function, and visibility of the Del Rio Trail Project and its arterial crossings. Public art opportunities may include, but are not limited to, vertical shade features, seating, walkways, crossings, landmarks, and landscape enhancements that improve pathway visibility and community access and links to the trail. The goal is to create significant gateway entrances integrated and grounded in the site, addressing the demarcation of the urban landscape beginning and ending between the park trail and the City.
Florin Road Community Beautification Project (Districts 5 and 8): The Florin Road Community Beautification Project is a combination public outreach campaign and beautification effort.
Partners include the Department of Utilities, Department of Convention & Cultural Services, Sojourner Truth Museum, Florin Road Partnership, Florin Square, Luther Burbank High School, and Keep California Beautiful. The public outreach campaign will involve high school students from Luther Burbank High School in beautifying their neighborhood. The project would include a paid internship program where students would adopt the area around Luther Burbank HS and come up with their own ideas for improvements. This, self-directed outreach campaign could include options such as performing litter source assessments, conducting business outreach to offer local businesses cigarette and trash receptacles, adopting an area to routinely clean up litter, organizing clean up events, and beautifying their neighborhood with public art. Students would be led by a paid college student(s) and guided by Keep California Beautiful mentors and local business owners.
The broader community beautification project would stretch along Florin Road from the Florin Square Shopping Center (home of the Sojourner Truth African American Museum) toward Florin Road and SR99 (which may also part of a Caltrans D3 Clean California project). The project could include banners, box wraps, murals, water/sound features, interactive structures, wall poetry, landscaping, and museum signage. The works of art will provoke thought by providing an education platform for children, youth, and families to engage and read the historical content created on the art pieces.
RESOLUTION NO.
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
CLEAN CALIFORNIA LOCAL GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATIONS
BACKGROUND
A. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has announced a call for projects for the Clean California Local Grant Program. Applications are due February 1, 2022.
B. The Clean California Local Grant Program has the following goals:
Reduce the amount of waste and debris within public rights-of-way, pathways, parks, transit centers, and other public spaces.
Enhance, rehabilitate, restore, or install measures to beautify and improve public spaces and mitigate the urban heat island effect. Enhance public health, cultural connection, and community placemaking by improving public spaces for walking and recreation.
Advance equity for underserved communities.
C. The Clean California Local Grant Program will provide approximately $296 million statewide as part of a two-year program.
D. Staff has reviewed the guidelines, criteria, and requirements for the grant, consulted with various stakeholders, and prepared a recommended list of projects that meet the criteria for the program.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to submit applications for Clean California Local Grant Program for the following projects:
21st Avenue Art Walk
24th Street Bypass Park/Joint Use Facility
Hanami Line at Matsui Park
Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys
Art Installations on Del Rio Trail
Florin Road Community Beautification Project
Section 2. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to submit any and all related documents necessary to support grant applications.
Section 3. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to execute grant agreements and any related grant documents upon award by Caltrans.