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Joint Resolution authorizing the Chair of the County Board, the County Clerk, and the County Engineer to apply to the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) for a technical assistance grant for the implementation of a the Northwest Lake Demonstration Dial-A-Ride Project in cooperation with Pace and the townships of Antioch, Avon, Grant and Lake Villa under the Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC) and New Freedoms (NF) program; subject to further County Board approval of the county funds required.
Staff Summary
· Northwest Lake Demonstration Dial-A-Ride: RTA JARC/NF Grant Application
· The 2008 RTA fall grant cycle is underway.
· While the Inter/Intra Lake County Paratransit Transportation Plan, spring 2008, RTA grant application is still pending, an actual demonstration project would be of much value to developing the plan.
· The Northwest Lake Demonstration Dial-a Ride has been created by Pace in conjunction with the townships of Antioch, Avon, Grant and Lake Villa with advice of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee.
· The requested RTA grant funds are the federal New Freedoms program.
· The county’s role will be grant coordinator and partial local match with Pace.
· Any grant contract is subject to further board approval regarding allocations of the necessary ¼% Sales Tax for Transportation funds.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006, adopted a resolution in support of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee’s (LCCTSC) goal to develop a plan to provide borderless paratransit service in Lake County to meet the needs of those mobility challenged constituent populations in Lake County, which may include the poor, the elderly, those with medical needs and/or the disabled, who have been determined to be eligible by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), or a service board of the RTA, for existing and futur...
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