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Mass Transit Memorandum <br /> No. 051412-1 <br /> May 14, 2012 <br /> TO: Honorable Mayor McElroy and City Council Members <br /> FROM: Ryan McCrady, City Manager <br /> Paul McChancy, Mass Transit Administrator <br /> SUBJECT: FTA Operating Assistance Grant for FY-2012 <br /> SUMMARY Staff recommends that Council approve a Resolution to authorize <br /> RECOMMENDATION: the filing of an application and the execution of a grant for Federal <br /> Transit Administration (FTA) operating assistance for FY-2012 in <br /> the amount of$217,312. <br /> BACKGROUND: Every year the Federal Transit Administration(FTA) apportions <br /> grant funds to each metropolitan transit system for operating <br /> assistance and for capital projects. In January the FTA published <br /> partial-year apportionments for FY-2012, showing that Decatur <br /> will receive$709,828. FTA recently published the second partial- <br /> year apportionments, giving Decatur an additional $351,872 in <br /> operating and capital funds. (Please note that a third apportion- <br /> ment is expected when the full budget is finally approved by <br /> Congress.) <br /> In February the City Council approved the filing of an FTA grant <br /> application for operating and capital assistance. At that time only <br /> $1,082,688 was available for operating assistance, using the FY-2012 <br /> apportionment and funds left over from FY-2011. Staff now proposes <br /> to add$217,312 in operating assistance from the latest apportionment, <br /> to bring the FTA operating funds up to a total of$1,300,000, which <br /> was budgeted in the current City budget. <br /> The remaining$134,560 from the revised FY-2012 apportionment, <br /> and any funds from the expected third apportionment, will be <br /> reserved for future operating and capital projects. <br /> POTENTIAL There are no known or expected objections to this grant <br /> OBJECTION: application. <br />