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Commissioner Carpenter - To Accept a Federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Grant, Authorize Staff to Request Additional Funding for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017, and Appropriate the Necessary Funds for Expenditure Purposes. (State $513.300, Local $132,980)
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STAFF CONTACT
Ray Maxwell, PE, Public Works Director, 704-862-7551
BUDGET IMPACT
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Federal/State Funding $513,300, Local Match $132,980
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BUDGET ORDINANCE IMPACT
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BACKGROUND
The Gaston County Public Works, Parks and Recreation, and Planning Departments worked together to develop and submit three (3) applications for grant funding opportunities through the Federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program. Previous authorization to submit the three applications was approved via Board Actions 2011-319 and 2015-035. Board Action 2015-262 was approved in October, 2015 authorizing staff to revise the CMAQ grant application due to a later determination that a section of trail will need extensive subsurface repair. Board Action 2015-262 incorrectly identified the project as the Rankin Lake to Gastonia Technology Parkway Trail. The correct project name should have been Gaston County Technology Parkway to Gaston County Park and Gaston College which is now identified by the NCDOT/MPO as STIP #C-5606E.
Approval of this Board Action corrects the project name referenced in Board Action 2015-262 and authorizes staff to revise the Federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program Grant Application for Fiscal Years 2016 to 2017 for STIP #C-5606E requesting additional funding to remediate the existing poor soil conditions. In addition, approval of this Board Action accepts the grant award for STIP #C-5606E, authorizes the County Attorney to draft the necessary documents for grant acceptance and proposed revision requests, authorizes the County Manager or his designee to execute said documents on behalf of Gaston County, and appropriates funding fo...
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