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6.2A Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er August 9, 2010 SUBJECT Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Regional Bicycle Program (RBP) funding for the Bair Island Bay Trail Improvement Project and the Skyway/Shoreway Bike Route Improvement Project. RECOMMENDA liON 1. Approve, by resolution, a request to the MTC for allocation of Fiscal Year 2010/11 "Regional Bicycle Program" PedestrianlBicycle project funding and authorize the City Manager to execute related documents and accept funds. 2. Approve, by motion, the allocation of MTC "Regional Bicycle Program" grant funding to the following projects: a) Bair Island Bay Trail Improvement Project b) Skyway/Shoreway Bike Route Improvement Project BACKGROUND The city, as part of single countywide application coordinated by City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG), requested and received funding from MTC for projects that exclusively benefit pedestrians and/or bicyclists. This funding is known as "Regional Bicycle Program" funding. City staff proposed two projects which meet MTC's criteria for "Regional Bicycle Program" funding eligibility. On June 10, 2010 C/CAG informed staff that these projects could be funded. MTC will provide $593,770.00 in grant funding for the two specified projects. The city is required to provide matching funds in the amount of $76,940.00. Matching funds are currently available from the City's approved FY 2010/11 Traffic Mitigation Fees Fund - Bicycle/Pedestrian Enhancement Program. The two projects proposed to receive MTC RBP grant funds are as follow. Bair Island Bay Trail Imorovement Proiect. This project consists of improvements to a half mile portion of the unbuilt Regional Bikeway Network. Also part of the Bay Trail, this existing levee pathway provides access from Whipple Avenue to Bair Island Road. The proposed project will improve the existing dirt trail to bridge a gap in bike/pedestrian path of travel between the U.S. 101 auxiliary lane bike path (Class I) terminating at Whipple Avenue and the existing Class II bike lanes on Bair Island Road. Currently, most of this trail section is either unimproved or deteriorated. A complete renovation of it is proposed that will include grading and paving so that this trail section is level across its course from Whipple Avenue to Bair Island Road. The trail design will be fully compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines where the trail intersects with Whipple Avenue and Bair Island Road. PG&E owns the fee title to the land as their transmission towers are located on it and they service those towers. PG&E has indicated that they will work collaboratively with the city to achieve the objectives of this project.