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Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Apply for $2,400,000 in Surface Transportation Block Grant - Direct Attributable Funds from the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization with a Required Local Match of $600,000 for the South 17th Street Multi-Use Path Project
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LEGISLATIVE INTENT/PURPOSE:
WHEREAS, on July 5, 2024, the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization ("WMPO") issued a call for projects to agencies in its jurisdiction for federal Surface Transportation Block Grant - Direct Attributable ("STBG-DA"), Transportation Alternatives - Direct Attributable, or Carbon Reduction Efforts funding, with a total of $5,087,594 available to award and a minimum of 20% in local matching funds required; and,
WHEREAS, the WMPO's STBG-DA program provides funding for various types of locally administered projects, including bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure; and,
WHEREAS, the South 17th Street Multi-Use Path project was submitted by the WMPO for Prioritization 2.0 in 2011, and it included a multi-use path along South 17th Street from Hospital Plaza Drive to Independence Boulevard and was the highest scoring bicycle project in the State; and,
WHEREAS, the South 17th Street Multi-Use Path project was funded in the State Transportation Improvement Program ("STIP") in Prioritization 2.0 and was first included in the 2013-2023 State/Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Programs; and,
WHEREAS, the 2013-2023 STIP was adopted by the North Carolina Board of Transportation in September 2012; and,
WHEREAS, the South 17th Street Multi-Use Path project will provide a 10-foot-wide multi-use path on the west side of South 17th Street from Harbour Drive to US 117/Shipyard Boulevard, as well as crosswalks and pedestrian signals at the intersection of South 17th Street and US 117/Shipyard Boulevard; and,
WHEREAS, this project is programmed in the 2024-2033 STIP and has federal funding through the North Carolina Department of Trans...
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