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Joint resolution appropriating $115,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for the required local match associated with the Safe Streets and Roads for All Grant received by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) that will guide the partnership and technical assistance services to be provided by CMAP for the creation of a Lake County Safety Action Plan.
Staff Summary
• Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), in partnership with the counties in the region, applied for a joint planning grant to develop a regional and individual county-wide safety action plans through the United States Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Safe Streets for All Program (SS4A).
• The SS4A Program is authorized for six billion in competitive grants over the next five years.
• Once an agency has an approved safety action plan, they are eligible in future application cycles to apply for implementation grants through the SS4A Program.
• CMAP was awarded $3,896,000 of SS4A grant funds to assist in the development of the safety plans, including a Safety Action Plan for Lake County.
• Lake County’s local cost share for the study is included in the Transportation Improvement Program.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, on September 13, 2022, adopted a resolution in support of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning’s (CMAP) joint application for a Safe Streets for All (SS4A) planning grant through the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT); and
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, on November 15, 2022, adopted an agreement with CMAP stating the terms and conditions for the creation of a Lake County Safety Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, the SS4A grant program, which invests up to six billion dollars over five years to fund local efforts to reduce roadway crashes and fatalities, recently selected CMAP’s Safe Travel for All Roadmap project for funding; and
WHEREAS, completion of safety action plans will allow for future grant applications through the SS4A program to implement components of the plan; and
WHEREAS, Lake County and CMAP are desirous of partnering to develop a Lake County Safety Action Plan funded by the SS4A grant which incorporates Lake County’s Strategic Plan goals, ON TO 2050 principles, and to work collaboratively with federal, state, local agencies, and the public to reduce the number of fatal and serious injury crashes within Lake County; and
WHEREAS, an appropriation of local matching funds for the development of the county-wide safety action plan is required.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that there is hereby appropriated $115,000 of ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds for the development of a county-wide safety action plan for Lake County, Illinois.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on August 8, 2023.