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Resolved by the Commission of the City of Battle Creek:
The urban transportation planning regulations, implementing sections of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) federal legislation, require that each urbanized area, as a condition of receipt of Federal capital or operating assistance, have a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive urban transportation planning process that results in plans and programs consistent with the comprehensively planned development of the urbanized area.
In the Battle Creek urbanized area, the continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process is being conducted by the Battle Creek Area Transportation Study (BCATS) Policy Committee, a forum for cooperative transportation decision-making by principal elected officials of local government, developed under federal guidelines for purposes of urban transportation planning conduct.
The Battle Creek Area Transportation Study annually develops a Unified Work Program identifying activities and costs necessary for the conduct of the urban transportation planning process.
Transportation planning funds, indirectly available from the U.S. Department of Transportation, are utilized to carry out the activities defined in the Unified Work Program. These funds, available under MAP-21 as FHWA PL from the Federal Highway Administration (along with funds flexed from the Federal Transit Administration to FHWA PL), require a local match of 18.15%.
The Policy Committee of the Battle Creek Area Transportation Study has recommended that the local match required to assure the timely conduct of the Study be determined and provided for in the following manner:
1. The reimbursement schedule to be used for participating agencies is that those doing BCATS work will be paid 100% of their total charge. BCATS staff office costs will be reimbursed 100%.
2. The formula for computing the local funds will be based solely on population for the BCATS staff office portion of the local share requirement. The local agencies will contribute the local share for their own activities within the BCATS program as noted on the attached table (see 3. below).
3. Distribution for local match funding is shown on the attached table.
It has been determined that the total local share requirements for the operation of the Battle Creek Area Transportation Study’s work program for 2017 will be $48,729.
The City of Battle Creek agrees to participate in the funding of the local share costs of the Battle Creek Area Transportation Study’s work program for fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2017) by providing 55.7% of the local match required for Study costs, plus $1,815 for costs specific to City of Battle Creek participation in the BCATS program. The total local contribution for the City of Battle Creek for FY 2017 will be $26,935.
The City of Battle Creek agrees to submit to the Battle Creek Area Transportation Study office (601 Avenue A, Springfield, MI 49037 RE: Fund No. 232.29.2321) payment of local match share no later than January 1, 2017; or the City of Battle Creek shall have the option of making the payment in two (2) equal installments by January 1, 2017 and April 1, 2017, respectively, if so arranged in advance.
The City of Battle Creek agrees this resolution becomes effective at such time as all other local Study participants providing financial support pass resolutions of financial commitment in the proportion and manner described in this resolution.
I, Victoria Houser, City Clerk of the City of Battle Creek, hereby certify the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Resolution adopted by the Battle Creek City Commission at a Regular meeting held on June 21, 2016.
Victoria Houser
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