Fiscal Note
The 2016 Operating Budget for the Planning Division includes $9,701 of anticipated revenue for the city’s transportation planning services (GL account string is 65300-43190-00000 and the Project Ledger account string is 65016-651-200-652900). 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 (MATPB) to provide transportation planning services to CARPC in calendar year 2016.
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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 (MATPB) 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 2016 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 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 policies and recommendations in the Regional Transportation Plan; (b) conducting analyses of transportation issues associated with CARPC’s Future Urban Development Area planning for local communities; (c) collecting and analyzing transportation data and preparing information for CARPC’s online Annual Trends report; and (d) 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 4, 2015, the MATPB approved authorizing the City of Madison to contract with CARPC for the provision of these services in 2016; and
WHEREAS, the MATPB will invoice CARPC on a quarterly basis for the cost of the transportation planning services not to exceed $9,701 for calendar year 2016:
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 2016.