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7.1.A. - Page 1 <br /> REPORT <br /> To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From the City Manager <br /> January 27, 2014 <br /> SUBJECT <br /> Resolutions supporting the Safe Routes to School Improvement project <br /> RECOMMENDATION <br /> 1. Request, by resolution, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) <br /> allocation of Transportation Development Act (TDA) Article 3 Pedestrian/Bicycle project <br /> funding for a Safe Routes to School Project in Redwood City. <br /> 2. Authorize, by resolution, staff to submit a grant application for a Safe Routes to <br /> School Project to the San Mateo County Transportation Authority's Measure A <br /> Pedestrian and Bicycle Program, and <br /> 3. Authorize, by motion, the City Manager to execute related grant and project <br /> documents, accept funds, and allocate local funding to supplement the project budget <br /> for the Safe Routes to School Project, if awarded. <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> In spring 2013, the City of Redwood City (City), in cooperation with Redwood City 2020 <br /> and the Redwood City School District, completed a series of walking/biking audits for six <br /> elementary schools in the Redwood City School District. An outcome of that project was <br /> a prioritized list of roadway improvements to increase safety for students who travel to <br /> and from school by walking and biking and to encourage more students to use active <br /> forms of transportation. Estimated cost of all the identified improvements was roughly <br /> $3,300,000, of which roughly $1,600,000 covers the cost to design and construct the <br /> "high priority" improvements. Since the completion of that project, staff has been <br /> working to identify funding to implement the improvements. <br /> TDA Article 3 funding <br /> On August 9, 2013 the City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG) issued a Call <br /> for Projects for the TDA Article 3 Program for fiscal year 2013/14. A total of $1,600,000 <br /> is available for this funding cycle, of which $200,000 will be applied to planning projects <br /> and $1,400,000 to capital projects. A goal of the FY 13/14 program is to fund a 50/50 <br /> split between pedestrian and bicycle projects. The MTC directly administers these funds <br /> and proposed projects should address one or more of MTC's twelve objectives. <br /> Project applications were received by C/CAG in Sept. 2013 for scoring and ranking by <br /> C/CAG's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. Some of the important factors in <br /> the past that have influenced whether or not a project received funding recommendation <br /> include the following: <br />