Fiscal Note
The 2018 Adopted Operating Budget includes $5,500 in miscellaneous revenue and corresponding expenditures to fund MPO activities associated with the Capital Regional Planning Commission (CARPC). The proposed resolution authorizes an agreement to provide transportation planning services to CARPC; no additional appropriation is required.
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Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into an agreement with the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission (CARPC) for the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (MATPB) to provide transportation planning services to CARPC in calendar year 2018
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison Planning Division provides staffing for the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (MATPB) - A Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the city serves as the MPO’s fiscal and administrative agent; and
WHEREAS, the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (MATPB) is the designated MPO for the Madison Metropolitan Area with responsibilities to perform metropolitan transportation planning and programming activities; and
WHEREAS, the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission (CARPC), the regional land use and environmental planning agency, is in need of services to conduct transportation planning for Dane County, including areas outside of the Madison Metropolitan Area; and
WHEREAS, CARPC will receive federal Planning funding from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) in 2018 for transportation related planning activities; and
WHEREAS, CARPC is requesting that the MATPB, as the MPO for the region, provide transportation planning services in a manner that has been provided historically by the MPO to CARPC since the MPO function was separated from the RPC; and
WHEREAS, these services are to consist of primarily conducting analyses of the impact of proposed Urban Service Area amendments in the county on the multi-modal transportation system, including an assessment of the capacity to handle the traffic to be generated, ability to serve the development with public transit, accommodations for pedestrians and bicyclists, other design issues, and overall consistency with the goals, policies, and recommendations in the Regional Transportation Plan 2050, but also working with CARPC staff to coordinate the MPO’s Regional Transportation Plan with CARPC’s Regional Land Use Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Division and MATPB have concluded that it would be desirable to continue to provide these services to CARPC as was done last year by entering into the attached agreement with CARPC for the provision of these services; and
WHEREAS, on November 1, 2017, the MATPB approved Resolution TPB No. 135 authorizing the City of Madison to contract with CARPC for the provision of these services in 2018; and
WHEREAS, the MATPB will invoice CARPC on a quarterly basis for the cost of the transportation planning services not to exceed $5,457 for calendar year 2018.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Clerk are authorized to enter into the attached agreement with CARPC for the MATPB to provide transportation planning work activities to CARPC in calendar year 2018.