Title
Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization Funding
Action
Action:
A. Accept Surface Transportation Block Grant-Direct Attributable funds in the amount of $329,489 from the Federal Highway Administration for additional planning funds as identified in the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization’s annual Unified Planning Work Program, and
B. Adopt a budget ordinance appropriating $329,489 to the General Grants Fund.
Body
Staff Resource(s):
Taiwo Jaiyeoba, City Manager’s Office
Robert Cook, Planning, Design, and Development
Liz Babson, Transportation
Explanation
§ The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) is the federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Charlotte urbanized area. It provides long-range transportation planning services to Mecklenburg, Union, and Iredell counties. The city is the CRTPO’s lead planning agency, and its staff is housed in the Planning, Design, and Development department.
§ Surface Transportation Block Grant-Direct Attributable (STBG-DA) funds are federal funds used to support the CRTPO’s transportation planning activities.
§ The CRTPO allocates some of its federal STBG-DA funds to its member jurisdictions for local transportation planning activities, and jurisdictions provide the required 20 percent matching funds.
§ In March 2018, the CRTPO allocated STBG-DA funds to five local projects: two in Matthews, one in Charlotte, one in Troutman, and one in Stallings. The acceptance of the $329,489 will allow all projects to be reimbursed for work completed with the federal STBG-DA funds.
§ On February 19, 2020, the CRTPO Board acted unanimously to amend the Fiscal Year 2020 Unified Planning Work Program and the Transportation Improvement Program to allocate the $329,489.
Fiscal Note
Funding: General Grants Fund
Attachments
Attachment(s)
Budget Ordinance