Title
Making Our Roads SAFER: A Cross-Jurisdictional Study Grant
Action
Action:
A. Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept a grant in the amount of $5,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the Making Our Roads SAFER: A Cross-Jurisdictional Study,
B. Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager, or their designee, to negotiate and execute a Grant Agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation to accept federal funds, and
C. Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $5,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the General Grants Fund.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Monica Holmes, Planning, Design, and Development
Robert Cook, Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization
Brian Elgort, Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization
Explanation
§ The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Charlotte Urban Area. The City of Charlotte is the CRTPO’s lead planning agency. The CRTPO is a division of the City of Charlotte’s Planning, Design, and Development Department.
§ The Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program was authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November 2021, appropriating $1.5 billion annually from 2022 through 2026.
§ The RAISE program provides grants for surface transportation infrastructure projects with significant local or regional impact that advance the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) priorities of safety, equity, climate and sustainability, workforce development, job quality, and wealth creation.
§ Making Our Roads SAFER: A Cross-Jurisdictional Study (Study) will exclusively focus on Areas of Persistent Poverty, Historically Disadvantaged Communities, and Rural Areas throughout the CRTPO planning area as designated by the USDOT.
§ The Study will leverage up to $5,000,000 in USDOT funds to produce the following deliverables:
- Comprehensive mobility audits for corridors and intersections that are prioritized based on safety, accessibility, connectivity, traffic characteristics, and public input;
- Infrastructure vulnerability assessments for critical elements of the transportation system to analyze maintenance and resilience needs to attain a state of good repair within existing footprints;
- An extensive public engagement strategy, including specialized branding, multimodal safety and mobility education campaigns, partnerships with key community stakeholders, and community-level opportunities for input and interaction;
- Preliminary engineering and design for prioritized capital projects with equitable geographic distribution across the study area; and
- A final planning document to include all study findings, recommendations, and actionable strategies for implementation.
§ The local match requirement has been waived by USDOT because the Study will be focused solely on the disadvantaged community types identified by the RAISE program. This study will be 100% federal funded.
Fiscal Note
Funding: USDOT Grant
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Map
Resolution
Budget Ordinance