City Council
MEETING DATE: 7/13/2016
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Authorization to submit Caltrans Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Cycle 8 funding applications
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FROM:
John A. Corella, P.E. - City Engineer
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
City Staff is requesting the that the City Council authorize the submittal of Caltrans Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funding application(s) for various roadway safety improvement projects and authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into a service contract provider agreement with Albert A. Webb and Associates to provide engineering assistance and complete the application(s) for the Caltrans HSIP Cycle 8 Call for Projects funding program.
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BACKGROUND:
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Local Assistance announced the Cycle 8 Call for Projects for the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) in May 2016. This Call for Projects is targeted for approximately $150 million of federal HSIP funds based on the estimated programming capacity in the Federal Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (FSTIP).
The HSIP is one of the core federal-aid programs in the new federal surface transportation act, Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST), which was signed into law on December 4, 2015. The purpose of the HSIP program is to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State owned public roads and roads on tribal land.
An eligible applicant for HSIP funds is an agency that assumes responsibility and accountability for the use and expenditure of federal-aid highway funds, the applicant must be a city, a county or a tribal government federally recognized within the State of California.
HSIP funds are eligible for work on any public roadway or publically owned bicycle or pedestrian pathway or trail, or on tribal lands for general use of tribal members, that improves the safety for i...
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