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LSO D f S I G Bus Operation Park and Ride Construction Federal Funding: $3,502,618 Local Match: $ 875,654 Total: $4,378,273 MEMORANDUM To: Jim Norman /Brian Olson /Pat Trudgeon From: Jo Ann Olsen Project: Ramsey CMAQ grant Subject: Process /Direction Date: September 20, 2006 A lot is going on with the CMAQ grant and I thought it would be helpful to go through the process and make some decisions on direction /goals and contacts. The CMAQ grant has now branched into 2 separate projects; Bus Operation and Park and Ride Expansion. There will be a fair amount of discussion /decisions made throughout both of these projects. 1 will need to have someone assigned from the city, to both or either of the projects that I can work directly with. Grant Manager (FTA — MnDOT Office of Transit Gerry Weiss) Federal Funding: $1,167,194 $1,241,118 Local Match: $ 291,798 $ 310,280 Total: $1,458,993 $1,551,398 Revised Amount from 2007/2010 TIP Status: The project has received local (Met Council) approval for Advance Construct for the 2006/2007 STIP. The project has already been put into the STIP in 2007 as an AC project. The amended STIP is at the Chicago FTA office for their review and approval. Kevin Roggenbuck from the Met Council is still estimating,sometime in November 2006 (he mentioned by Thanksgiving) when we will be notified that the 2006/2007 STIP has been formally adopted and the bus operation can begin. The federal funds will become available November 2008. Until then, the City will have to pay for operation of service. 1 am working with Gerry Weiss, our local grant manager. He has to submit a grant application to the FTA office to receive the funds. I will work with him to verify and get approval that the funds the City puts towards the service prior to the federal payment will be accepted as the local match. Next Steps: 1. Assign city staff to project to work on the following: a. Enter into a Joint Powers agreement with the NCDA (Jon Olson /Richardson and Richter). i. This is where we have to be very clear on what we need in terms of documentation, payments, etc to not jeopardize the grant. b. Set up a separate city account for this project to document costs and expenditures. Diana should be involved in this step. i. Now that we have the proposed costs from Laidlaw, I will put together the monthly cost of the operation to be covered by the city until the federal funds become available. Grant Manager (FHWA — MnDOT Colleen VanWagner) Planning 1 Architecture 1 Urban.Design 1 Landscape.Architecture —245 — LSA DESIGN, INC. 1 250 Third Ave. North, Suite 600 1 Minneapolis, MN 55401 1 612.339.8729 1 Fax: 612.339.7433 1 www.lsadesigninc.com