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Joint resolution authorizing, on behalf of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee (LCCTSC), an application to the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) for a Section 5310 grant for the continuation of the Ride Lake County West Project in cooperation with Pace, the Townships of Antioch, Avon, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa and Wauconda, subject to further County Board approval.
Staff Summary
* Ride Lake County West Project: RTA Section 5310 Grant Application.
* The RTA Section 5310 grant cycle is underway.
* The RTA grant funds being requested are from the Federal Section 5310 grant program.
* The Ride Lake County West Project (formerly known as the Northwest Demonstration Project) was created by the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee (LCCTSC) with support from the Townships of Antioch, Avon, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa and Wauconda and is operated by Pace.
* The Section 5310 grant application will continue coordination of expanded dial-a-ride services in the Townships of Antioch, Avon, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa and Wauconda.
* The County's role will be grant coordinator on behalf of the LCCTSC.
* The local match, to be supplied for the grant, is in accordance with the Lake County Division of Transportation Paratransit Coordination with LCCTSC Policy.
* This resolution authorizes the County to apply for the grant, and if approved, it will be brought back to the Lake County Board for acceptance.
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R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, this Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006, and March 15, 2011, adopted resolutions in support of the 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 RTA, or a service board ...
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