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RESOLUTION R-2021-47: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, PROGRAMMING FEDERAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM URBANIZED AREA (STP-UZA) FUNDS FOR ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS ALONG JAMES GARNER AVENUE, BETWEEN ACRES STREET AND DUFFY STREET IN NORMAN.
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BACKGROUND: The 2016 - Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) federal transportation funding bill allocates approximately $22 Million in Federal funds per year for the implementation of eligible transportation improvements in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Ten percent of this appropriation is used to fund safety projects at 100% of their construction cost.
Every year, the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) coordinates a regional evaluation process that identifies transportation improvements eligible for federal funding. Individual projects are rated and compared to one another using a pre-established criterion. The process ends with the formulation of the region's transportation improvement program and the decision to use federal funds to pay for a significant portion of the cost of the higher priority projects.
DISCUSSION: On October 23, 2020, staff will submit the twenty highest ranked projects for consideration in the formulation of ACOG's Two-Year Transportation Improvement Program update. To be eligible, each submitted project must have had a programming resolution submitted for the project.
On August 25, 2020, during a Council Conference, staff presented an item whereby some of the projects in the 2019 Transportation Bond Election be considered for Federal funding rather than purely Local funds as was originally proposed. The suggestion was offered because of the potentially high scores that could be achieved from some of these 2019 Transportation Bond Election projects. Three of the programming resolutions are for 2019 Transportation Bond Election projects and three are for other projects. In Federal Fiscal Year 2020, Council has adop...
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