Submitted By: Noel Cooper
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Presentation By: Sean Lanier
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Department: Engineering
STAFF RECOMMENDATION (Motion Ready):
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Adopt Resolution 2024-28 to execute a Fiscal Year 2023 Safe Streets and Roads for All grant from the United States Department of Transportation in the amount of $104,000
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OCALA'S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:
Quality of Place
PROOF OF PUBLICATION:
N/A
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BACKGROUND:
The proposed Fiscal Year 2023 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant No. 693JJ32440264 is to perform supplemental planning activities to support and enhance the adopted Ocala Marion Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Commitment to Zero Safety Action Plan.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Fiscal Year 2023 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program, authorized under Section 24112 of the Infrastructure and Jobs (IIJA) of 2021. The purpose of SS4A grants is to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries through safety action plan development, refinement and implementation focused on all users. These users include pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, motorists, personal conveyance and micro mobility users, and commercial vehicle operators.
The City of Ocala applied to the USDOT and received an award in the amount of $104,000 for planning activities. The estimated cost of the project is $130,000 and the City will cover the remaining $26,000.
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS:
The grant funding will be used to conduct two planning activities:
1. Develop a city-wide Local Road Safety Plan (LRSP) to identify, analyze, and prioritize roadway safety improvements on local roads for all road users; and
2. Develop a Speed Management/Traffic Calming Plan targeting safer speeds in residential areas and around schools.
An executed grant agreement is required by the USDOT to obligate the grant fund...
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