Fiscal Note
This federal transportation grant provides for $100,500 in 2023. The City’s match for this grant would be $25,125. The city’s share of the costs would be paid primarily in the form of staff salaries and benefits, as well as marketing materials, advertising, and similar costs. These costs have been included in the 2023 executive operating budget. No additional appropriation required.
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Authorizing the City of Madison on behalf of the Greater Madison MPO to accept a federal funding grant for $100,500 from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to implement the MPO’s RoundTrip TDM program and authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into the grant contract and State/Municipal Agreement.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison Planning Division provides staffing for the Greater Madison MPO and the city serves as the MPO’s fiscal and administrative agent; and
WHEREAS, the MPO operates the RoundTrip program, which provides ride-matching and alternative transportation promotion services, works with employers to conduct travel demand management (TDM) programs, coordinates TDM efforts of other agencies and organizations, provides assistance on other initiatives to promote ridesharing, transit, bicycling and walking, including employer-based commuter challenges, and produces and disseminates TDM marketing materials; and
WHEREAS, the MPO and the City of Madison recognize the need for and benefits of TDM programs and other strategies to promote the use of transit, car/vanpooling, bicycling, and walking in the region; and
WHEREAS, the MPO uses some of the federal transportation funding it receives as an MPO under the Surface Transportation Block (STBG) - Urban program to support its RoundTrip program; and
WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) administers the federal funding for the MPO and will provide federal funding in the amount of $100,500 to the City of Madison on behalf of the MPO for operating the RoundTrip program in 2023; and
WHEREAS, WisDOT's federal contract language requires the City to indemnify and save harmless WisDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from damages to persons or property resulting from negligence of the City in connection with performance of the contract; and
WHEREAS, City APM 1-1 requires Council approval whenever the City indemnifies another party.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Madison is authorized to accept $100,500 from WisDOT for the RoundTrip program and the Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to sign the project contract and State/Municipal Agreement for the program for 2023 (5992-08-51); and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City is authorized to indemnify and save harmless WisDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from damages to persons or property resulting from negligence of the City in connection with performance of these contracts.