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` � . <br /> . ; r <br /> Community Development <br /> Memorandum <br /> 96-80 <br /> May 7, 1996 <br /> To: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members <br /> From: Daniel R. Sommerfeldt, Interim City Manager <br /> George C. Weaver, Director of Department of Community Development <br /> Robert S. Reed, Mass Transit Administrator <br /> Subject: Mass Transit Capital Grant Application for FY'96 <br /> The attached resolution will authorize the filing of a mass transit capital grant application <br /> with the Illinois Department of Transportation. The State received a Section 5309 discretionary <br /> Bus Allocation appropriation from the federal government last Fall. Those funds will be passed <br /> thru to transit systems in Illinois. <br /> The City was originally programmed to receive $880,000, but the reductions in federal <br /> funding resulted in a lesser amount being available. The application is for a total of$655,050, <br /> which will consist of$524,040 in federal funds and $131,010 in State funds. The monies are to <br /> be used to purchase 3 new transit coaches which will replace a like number of 1979 Grumman <br /> Flxible 870 buses. <br /> It is expected that it will be at least 2 years before new buses can be purchased and <br /> delivered to Decatur. <br />