Title
Staff Report for a Resolution to Authorize the City Manager to Enter into an Agreement with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to Receive $139,128 in Grant Funding from the Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program and Provide a Minimum Local Match Amount of $48,372 to Install 9.5 Miles of Bikeways for the Bicycle Network West, Project No. 2014.0430
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into an agreement with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) to receive $139,128 in grant funding from the Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) Program and provide a minimum local match amount of $48,372 to install 9.5 miles of bikeways for the Bicycle Network West Project.
BACKGROUND
The California Legislature created the Air District in 1955 as the first regional air pollution control agency in the country, recognizing that air pollution transcends political boundaries. The Air District is the public agency entrusted with regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine-county San Francisco Bay region.
In 1991, the California State Legislature authorized the Air District to impose a $4 surcharge on motor vehicles registered within its jurisdiction to fund projects that reduce on-road motor vehicle emissions. The Air District allocates these funds to its Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) Program, which provides funding to qualifying alternative fuel vehicle and trip reduction projects including bicycle facility projects. The Air District views bicycling as one of the key strategies for reducing single-occupancy motor vehicle trips and subsequently air pollution.
Over the last 25 years, the Air District has provided more than $11 million in TFCA funding for eligible bicycle facility improvement projects, which has resulted in the installation of more than 13,000 new secure bicycle parking spots (via racks and lockers) ...
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