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RESOLUTION R-1718-24: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, SUPPORTING A REQUEST FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA GOVERNMENTS (ACOG) TO CONTRIBUTE $2,355.50 TO THE LOCAL MATCH PORTION OF A CONSULTANT FEE FOR THE REVIEW AND UPDATE OF THE CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES USED IN THE SELECTION OF FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECTS IN THE OKLAHOMA CITY AREA REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION STUDY (OCARTS) FROM THE CAPITAL FUND BALANCE TO BE USED FOR THE ACOG ALLOCATION STUDY.
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BACKGROUND: The 2015 - Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) federal transportation funding bill allocates approximately $21 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. This is a very important funding source for the City's transportation improvement program and Capital Budget. In recent years, the City of Norman has received over $7 million per year from this program.
Federal law requires that the region's Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP) include regional priorities that implement the long range plan by reducing overall congestion, increasing safety and providing multimodal transportation options. Project priorities are established using the Criteria and Process for Evaluation of Surface Transportation Program Urbanized Area (STP-UZA) Projects, which rates and ranks projects submitted by any of the thirty one cities and five counties in the metropolitan area that are eligible for the funds.
Every year, the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments (ACOG) coordinates the regional project evaluation process that identifies transportation improvements eligible for federal funding. Individual projects are rated and compared to one another using pre-established criteria. The process ends with the formulation of the region's transportation improvement program and ...
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