Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes the acceptance of $106,100 in federal revenues and commensurate expenditures in the grant fund. The federal funds are available through the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WISDOT). The City’s required match for the grant is $26,525. This match will be made primarily in the form of staff salaries and benefits, as well as marketing materials, advertising, and similar costs. The funds will be used to implement the Metropolitan Planning Organization's (MPO) RoundTrip TDM program and are included in the Planning Division’s 2025 Adopted Operating Budget. No additional City 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 $106,100 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;...
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