Resolution 13968City of Alameda Resolution No. 1396 8
Third Cycle STP /CMAQ/TE Program
AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL
CONGESTION MITIGATION AND AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM FUNDING FOR OTIS DRIVE /DOOLITTLE DRIVE /ISLAND
DRIVE SIGNAL COORDINATION AND COMMITTING THE
NECESSARY NON- FEDERAL MATCH ; FOR THE PROJECT AND
STATING THE ASSURANCE OF ' THE CITY OF ALAMEDA TO
COMPLETE THE PROJECT
WHEREAS, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users ( SAFETEA) (Public Law 109 -59, August 10,
2005) continues the Surface Transportation Program (23 U.S.C. § 133 and the
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) (23
U.S.C. § 149); and
WHEREAS, the SAFETEA legislation will guide STP, CMAQ, and TE
programming until a SAFETEA bill is authorized; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to SAFETEA, and the regulations promulgated
thereunder, eligible project sponsors wishing to receive Surface Transportation
Program or Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program grants
for a project shall submit an application first with the appropriate metropolitan
transportation planning organization (MPO), for review and inclusion in the
MPO's Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission is the MPO for
the San Francisco Bay region; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda is an eligible project sponsor for
Surface Transportation Program or Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement Program funds; and
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda wishes to submit an application to MTC
for funds from the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program
in fiscal years 2006 -07 for the following project:
Signal coordination currently exists between the intersections at Robert
Davey Jr. Drive /Packet Landing Road and Robert Davey Jr. /Island Drive during
the AM peak hour in both the eastbound and westbound directions. Signal
coordination needs to be completed between Island Drive /Doolittle Drive and
Island Drive /Robert Davey Jr. Drive in both the northbound and southbound
directions, as well as between High Street/Otis Drive and Fernside Blvd'. /Otis
Drive in both the eastbound and westbound directions. A new controller is
required at Island Drive /Doolittle Drive, but an existing interconnect cable can
be used. A new controller is also required at Otis Drive /Fernside Blvd. A new
cable will have to connect the new controller to the controller at Otis Drive /High
Street, and new signal timing will be required for activation; and
WHEREAS, MTC requires, as part of the application, a resolution stating
the following:
1) the commitment of necessary local matching funds of at least 11.47 %;
and
2) that the sponsor understands that the Surface Transportation Program
and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program funding
is fixed at the programmed amount, and therefore any cost increase
cannot be expected to be funded with Surface Transportation Program or
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program funds; and
3) the assurance of the sponsor to complete the project as described in the
application, and if approved, as programmed in MTC's TIP; and
4) that the sponsor understands that funds must be obligated by May 31 of
the year that the project is programmed for in the TIP, or the project may
be removed from the program.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Alameda authorizes the City Manager of the City of Alameda to execute and
file an application for funding under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement Program of SAFETEA in the amount of ($59,000) for Otis
Drive /Doolittle Drive /Island Drive Signal Coordination.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that City Council of the City of Alameda by
adopting this resolution does hereby state that:
1) The City of Alameda will provide ($8,000) in non- federal matching funds;
and
2) The City of Alameda understands that the Surface Transportation
Program and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement
Program funding for the project is fixed at ($59,000), and that any cost
increases must be funded by the City of Alameda from local matching
funds, and that City of Alameda does not expect any cost increases to be
funded with Surface Transportation Program or Congestion Mitigation
and Air Quality Improvement Program funds; and
3) Otis Drive /Doolittle Drive /Island Drive Signal Coordination Project will be
built as described in this resolution and, if approved, for the amount
shown in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)
Transportation Improvement Program ( TIP) with obligation occurring
within the timeframe established below; and
4) The program funds are expected to be obligated by May 31 of the year
the project is programmed for in the TIP.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Alameda is an eligible
sponsor of projects in the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement
Program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Alameda is authorized to
submit an application for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement
Program funds for Otis Drive/Doolittle Drive/Island Drive Signal Coordination
Project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is no legal impediment to the
City of Alameda making applications for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement Program funds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that there is no pending or threatened
litigation which might in any way adversely affect the proposed project, or the
ability of City of Alameda to deliver such project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution will be
transmitted to the MTC in conjunction with the filing of the application.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the MTC is requested to support the
application for the project described in the resolution and to program the
project, if approved, in MTC's TIP.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in the Regular Meeting of the City
Council on the 6th day of June 2006, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Council embers Daysog, deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese —
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Mayor Johnson —1
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City
this 7th day of June, 2006.
Lara Weisiger, City Clerk
City of Alameda