TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND TRANSIT DIVISION RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTIONS.
This item supports the Board’s Vision and Goals for "Cooperatively Creating an Efficient and Accessible Regional Intermodal Transportation Network" by providing additional capital funding to improve and enhance the transit system.
As part of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, funds from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) are distributed by formula to the “Miami Urbanized Area,” (Miami UZA) consisting of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Grant programs identified within this agenda item include: 5307 Urbanized Area Formula and 5339 Bus and Bus Facilities.
FTA 5307 programs fund eligible costs associated with: purchasing buses, preventative maintenance, maintenance and rehabilitation of transit and passenger facilities, construction, communications, security, and transit enhancements (e.g., bus stop infrastructure, computer hardware and software). The 5339 program funds eligible costs associated with replacing or rehabilitating transit facilities and the purchasing of buses and related equipment. The formula allocations are based on a combination of factors including: bus revenue vehicle miles, bus passenger miles, fixed guideway revenue vehicle miles, fixed guideway route miles, high-intensity bus systems using high-occupancy vehicle lanes, population growth and density and number of low-income individuals.
The letters sent to the FTA Region 4 Administrator signed by the four county transit agencies, PalmTran, Broward County Transit (BCT), Miami-Dade Transit and the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), outline the total allocation for the Miami UZA and the allocation to each sub-recipient based on FTA's formula for the grants (Exhibit 4). Broward County, FL, through the Transportation Department (BCT) is the grant applicant and recipient of federal financial assistance of these formula grant funds. The 2018 FTA 5307 apportionment to Broward is $26,186,334 and increases BCT’s adopted Fiscal Year 2018 capital budget of $21,272,730 by $4,913,604. The 2018 FTA 5339 Bus and Bus Facilities apportionment for Broward is $3,640,422. |