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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 8.2 AlaCntyCongestionMgtPgrm . . CITY OF DUBLIN AGENDA STATEMENT City Council Meeting Date: January 25, 1993 SUBJECT: Recommended Projects for Application for Funding Within the Alameda County Congestion Management Program Report by: Public Works Director Lee Thompson EXHIBITS ATTACHED: ~Letter from Dennis Fay, Executive Director, CMA RECOMMENDATION:~APprove Staff recommended indicated in Description. projects for CMA funding as FINANCIAL STATEMENT: See below. DESCRIPTION: The Alameda County Congestion Management Agency is now requesting submittals for the Capital Improvement element of the 1993 Congestion Management Program (CMP). This includes five separate categories of projects. Each of the nine Bay Area counties has formed its own Congestion Management Agency (CMA) which facilitates certain funding from State and Federal sources to local agencies through its Congestion Management Program. The funds available are for road improvements, transit, and transportation projects which will mitigate traffic congestion and improve air quality. At present, the only major public works grant funding the City receives outside the CMA apparatus is Measure B (sales tax), SB300 (1/2~ gas tax), and Transportation Development Act (bike path/pedestrian construction). It is probable that TDA will be shifted from Alameda County auspices to the CMA umbrella next fiscal year. The following is a description of the five CMA program categories, three of which will program new funding, and Staff's recommendations for the City of Dublin's applications for projects for each category: I. Regional Transportation Improvement Program (RTIP) County priorities are established by each CMA with a list of highway and transit projects. The projects are then submitted to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which is the regional conduit to the California Transportation Commission (CTC). The CTC awards the funds, which are in the State Transportation Improvement Program. Alameda County may submit up to $100 million in projects. Projects for the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) must first compete within Alameda County, then within the Bay Area, and then State-wide. RECOMMENDED DUBLIN INVOLVEMENT: Support for funding the West Oublin BART Station (BART will be the lead agency requesting funding). II. Federal Surface Transportation Program and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (Program Years 94-94, 95-96, and 96-97) These federal funds are allocated through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission after being processed through the Alameda County Transportation Advisory Committee and the CMA. The funding is divided into guaranteed allotments by planning area population and a non-guaranteed allotment which is project-competitive. Alameda County has been divided into four different planning areas, and the cities of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and the Livermore/Amador Valley Transit Authority are in Planning Area 4. These ISTEA funds were formerly Federal Aid Urban (FAU), which the City used to build the three phases of San Ramon Road Improvements and the Dublin Boulevard, Village Parkway, and Amador Valley Boulevard Rehabilitation. Intermodal System Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) is the current designation of these ::::-::~-~-::~----------::::::-::~-------------------------------------------- . . funds. The cities are required to match 11.5% of the total cost of the project. RECOMMENDED APPLICATION: FOR GUARANTEED DISTRIBUTION Project Description ISTEA Funding Request Required City Matching Funds Total Project Cost Dougherty Road Improvements $ (Removing and paving existing dirt median from SPRR R/W to South of Amador Valley Blvd.; overlay existing road and widen travel lanes.) 203,550 $ 26,450 $ 230,000 FOR COMPETITIVE DISTRIBUTION Project Description ISTEA Funding Request* Required City Matching Funds Total Proj ect Cost Installation of 3 traffic $ signals on Village Parkway (at Tamarack Drive, Brighton Drive and Davona Drive), and some road widening on Village Parkway in front of the high school for drop-off. 300,000 $ 39,000 $ 339,000 Dublin Boulevard Widening from Donlon Way to Village Parkway. $ 2,082,000 $ 273,000 $ 2,355,000 City matching monies could be funded from State Gas Tax subventions, including Proposition 111 monies, Measure B monies, and/or developer contributions. As the City's future Gas Tax monies will be used more and more for maintenance projects, funding through Gas Tax could mean postponement of some future maintenance work. It should be noted that since this program would allow projects to be undertaken up to six years from now, the decision on method of local funding need not be made at this time. III. AB 434 Program This program is funded by Assembly Bill 434, which allows the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to collect a fee of $4 per vehicle registration per year. The funds are to be used for reducing air pollution from motor vehicles through programs which reduce traffic. This funding has been divided by BAAQMD into 40% guaranteed funding that the City must apply for through the CMA and 60% competitive funding that the City will apply for directly to BAAQMD. RECOMMENDED DUBLIN APPLICATION: 40% DUBLIN SHARE: (guaranteed) $14,701 for staff and materials to help fund Dublin's Trip Reduction Ordinance 60% SHARE: No application IV. Projects for Maintaining or Improving the Level of Service for the Congestion Management Program Network The enabling CMP legislation required the CIP element to contain a seven year capital improvement program listing projects proposed to maintain or improve the traffic level of service on the designated CMP network. This category will contain projects proposed that will benefit the CMP network. There is no funding available for this program at this time. Page 2 . . RECOMMENDED: Dublin's proposed list of projects that would help alleviate 1-580 congestion: 1) Dublin Boulevard widening from Village Parkway to Donlon Way. 2) Road parallel to Dublin Boulevard from 1-680 to Regional Street. 3) Western Dublin BART station. 4) Dublin Boulevard widening and extension from Dougherty Road to the City of Livermore. RECOMMENDED: Dublin's proposed list of projects that would help alleviate 1-680 congestion: 1) Dougherty Road improvement from Dublin Boulevard north to the Contra Costa County line. 2) Bike path along Alamo Creek. 3) 1-580/1-680 flyover and hOOk-ramp to City of Dublin. 4) Village Parkway signalizations and coordination. v. Project Study Report Priority List A Project Study Report (PSR) is required to be completed for any state highway project before it can be programmed in the STIP (in Bay AREA RTIP first). This list will contain projects in Alameda County that are recommended for further study and consideration in future funding cycles. This list will be limited to PSRs being developed by Caltrans and will not include local or privately funded PSRs. RECOMMENDED DUBLIN APPLICATION: Support for Project Study Report to be done by Caltrans on the I-580/San Ramon Road off-ramp and on-ramp improvement. a: (agenda)\agenda\125istea Page 3 , . . 1 (J",?Mv" A . . . . ... -- .......... . '.. I Ii . .. . :....~-:::::::-:::::::::>fjj::-:::t'-:~\}&J. LfiliJ. '\ . .........,... ............. . . - ........... .. . ............... L ~}:: .... ..... . ..... .... . ........ . .... ...-.. ....' . .... . ............................,.....................-.....'-.-.-.-. . tMtlli.:\\\:\\\:I:Itn:../" . :\LUJF:J}.j" cneST}' COSGESTJOS 1\!:\.y.\GE.\Jr;ST AGESCr l\1EMORANDUM RECEIVED DEe 291992 DATE: December 23, 1992 PUBIJC WOR 1(, SUBJECT: ACTAC . . Dennis R. Fay, Exe:utiVeDireClor j~ Call for Projects for the 1993 Capital Improvement Program TO: FROM: The Alameda County Congestion Management Agency is now requesting project submittals for the Capital Improvement Element (CIP) element of the 1993 Congestion Management Program (CMP). The CIP will include five separate lists of projects, three of w'hich \vill program new funds for projects. These five project lists are listed belmv: 1. Projects seeking funding in the Regional Transportation Program (R TIP) II. Project seeking Federal Surface Transportation Program (STP) and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) funding in MTC's Federal Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). "- III. Projects recommended for funding in the AB 434:.vehicle registration fee Program 'IV. Projects recommended for maintaining or improving the level of service on the CMP network _Y. The Alameda County Project Study Report (PSR) priority list. It is estimated that the CMA will be allov.;ed to submit projects to MTC totaling up to $ 100 million for consideration in the R TIP and $70 milIion in the TIP. In addition the CMA will be programming $ 1.2 million in AB 434 funds for fiscal year 1993/94. A complete description of these programs and the process for project selection can be found in the attached "Capital Improvement Program Guidelines". ACT AC approved these guidelines at its December 15, 1992 meeting, the Civ1A Board is scheduled to approve the guidelines at its January 14, 1993 meeting. Several attachments are included in this package to help you in the application process. These attachments are summarized below: Attachment A - Schedule for projects Attachment B - Bid targets for eligible applicants . Attachment C _ MTC Screening and Scoring Criteria for RTIP and ISTEA projects Attachment D _ Applications for projects in the 1995 TIP & 1994 R TIP Attachment E - AB 434 Program Guidelines and application Attachment F _ A listing of the highway and transit elements of the Metropolitan Transportation System (lvnS) and the C~fP network. 2../301 SOCTIfI.ASD DRJ\'E. SCITE 200. llA nr.-\ RD. C.-1UFORS1A 1).J5.J5-15.J/ - i7S';-2ilO . FAX f51f))i85-../861 "_~_______~.-J~-..~-:.___.-..;.._._.-..-.,.~t-...____________ .___._......_ ~_... . . , J Project sponsors wishing to submit projects for consideration must turn in completed applications to the CMA offices by 5:00 PM on Tuesday, February 2, 1993. Projects submitted for consideration for funding in the RTIP and TIP or to be included in the CIP listing of projects which benefit the Ov1P network must complete the application included as Attachment D. Projects to be considered for the AB 434 program must complete the application included in Attachment E. A summary sheet listing all projects submitted for each p'roject listing should be included with the completed applications. This summary sheet should show the project title, total project cost and the funding requested. Projects submitted for funding in the RTIP and for ISTEA funds in the TIP should be ranked in priority order. The MTC scoring guidelines and applications included in this package are currently being revised by MTC. However, MTC does not anticipate substantial changes to the guidelines or the applications that are attached. These guidelines may be used as an initial guidance until the final versions are available. The final guidelines and application v,.ill be sent to ACT AC as soon as they are available, which we anticipate to be in mid January. Review and scoring of all projects submitted and the initial formulation of the county priorities for these funding programs will be performed by ACT AC. You are encouraged to have a staff member attend the upcoming ACT AC meetings if at all possible. The ACT AC meetings will also serve as a forum for updates or changes to the MTC scoring and application process. If you have any questions regarding this process please contact Frank Furger of my staff who will be coordinating project submittals and review.