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Community Development Agency, Long Range Planning Division, recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign three (3) originals of grant funded Agreement No. 300-O1511 accepting $15,000 from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, which allows the County to be paid for staff time to assist with the Meyers Sustainable Mobility Plan Project.
FUNDING: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Grant.
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BUDGET SUMMARY:
Total Grant Funding …… $15,000.00
Budget - Current FY……………
Budget - Future FY………………
New Funding……………………. $15,000.00
Savings…………………………
Other……………………………
Total Funding Available………… $15,000.00
Change To Net County Cost…… $0
Fiscal Impact/Change to Net County Cost
There is no Net County Cost associated with this agenda item. The County was awarded $15,000 in grant funding from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) to compensate staff for work on the Meyers Sustainable Mobility Plan Project.
Background
The County has been working on the Meyers Area Plan (MAP), which has a Transportation Chapter, for the last two years. The MAP, which is still in process, outlines very high level planning transportation-related goals and policies. Through that process, the County has realized that additional information is needed from a transportation perspective for the Meyers corridor. The Meyers Sustainable Mobility Plan Project (Project), described in Attachment A, will help fulfill that need.
The Project provides a conceptual multimodal “complete streets” planning strategy for the U.S. Highway 50/State Route 89 corridor, consistent with the vision of the Draft MAP. Subrecipient Grant Agreement No. 300-O1511 (Attachment B) provides for reimbursement from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) to the County for the Project.
The County applied to Caltrans under their Transportation Planning Grant Program three (3) separate times over the past five (5) years for grant funding to conduct the Project, but was u...
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