Fiscal Note
The 2015 Operating Budget for the Planning Division includes $9,701 of anticipated revenue for the city's transportation planning services (Account No. GN01-78530-224100-00-2202900-CARPC000-00000000). No additional local share is required as matching funds are already included in the salary expenses.
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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 (TPB) to provide transportation planning services to CARPC in calendar year 2015
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison Planning Division provides staffing for the Madison Area Transportation Planning Board (TPB) - 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 (TPB) is the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (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, particularly outside of the Madison Metropolitan Area; and
WHEREAS, CARPC will receive federal Planning funding from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) in 2015 for transportation planning activities for areas in Dane County outside of the Madison Metropolitan Area; and
WHEREAS, CARPC is requesting that the Madison Area TPB, as the MPO for the region, provide these services in a manner that has been provided historically by the MPO to CARPC; and
WHEREAS, these services are to consist of (a) conducting analyses of the impact of urban service area amendments 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, and overall consistency with the policies and recommendations in the Regional Transportation Plan, (b) preparing a report on the performance of the regional transportation system and trends for CARPC's annual trends reporting, (c) working with CARPC staff to coordinate the MPO's Regional Transportation Plan with CARPC's Regional Land Use Plan, and (d) potentially conducting analyses of transportation issues associated with development of plans for sustainable growth as part of CARPC's Future Urban Development Area planning; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Division and Madison Area TPB 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 5, 2014, the Madison Area TPB approved authorizing the City of Madison to contract with CARPC for the provision of these services in 2015; and
WHEREAS, the Madison Area TPB will invoice CARPC on a quarterly basis for the cost of the transportation planning services not to exceed $9,701 for calendar year 2015.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Clerk are authorized to enter into the attached agreement with the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission (CARPC) for the Madison Area TPB to provide transportation planning work activities to CARPC in calendar year 2015.