Title
Resolution for a Joint Participation Agreement - Service Development Funds for Regional Transit Service (RTS) Route 27 (B)
This item is a request to adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a Joint Participation Agreement between the City of Gainesville and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to receive Service Development Funds for the operation of new Route 27.
Explanation
FDOT allocates service development funds to transit agencies each year. The allocations are given at FDOT discretion on a competitive basis for agency projects that meet FDOT Service Development Grant (SDG) criteria.
This new fixed-route, Route 27 (Eastside Circulator), is a combination of three existing bus routes, Routes 2, 7, and 11. It is designed to complement the increased service demands on those routes by providing hourly service on each route and half hour frequencies to the core area of East Gainesville. Route 27 (Eastside Circulator) will service portions of Waldo Road (SR-24), Hawthorne Road (SR-20) and University Avenue (SR-26), and provide transit service between the Santa Fe College Downtown Campus/RTS Rosa Parks transfer station and the east side of Gainesville. Santa Fe College (SFC) Student Transportation Fee funds will provide the fifty percent (50%) local match required to receive FDOT funds to operate this route.
FDOT requires the governing board of each public transit system to adopt a resolution authorizing the acceptance of these funds.
Fiscal Note
This Joint Participation Agreement requires the City of Gainesville to provide a local match in the amount of $89,313 for operating costs which will be funded by SFC student transportation fees.
Recommendation
The City Commission adopt the Resolution.