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Joint resolution authorizing, on behalf of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee (LCCTSC), separate applications, to the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), for Section 5310 grants for the continuation of the Ride Lake County Central Project in cooperation with Pace, the Townships of Fremont and Libertyville, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein; and 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 Central and Ride Lake County West Projects: RTA Section 5310 Grant Applications.
• The RTA grant funds being requested are from the Federal Section 5310 grant program.
• The Ride Lake County Central Project, operated by Pace, was created by LCCTSC in 2016, with support from the Townships of Fremont and Libertyville and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein.
• The Section 5310 grant application will continue coordination of expanded Dial-a-Ride services with the Townships of Fremont and Libertyville, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein.
• The Ride Lake County West Project (formerly known as the Northwest Demonstration Project), operated by Paced, was created by the LCCTSC in 2016, with support from the Townships of Antioch, Avon, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa and Wauconda.
• The Section 5310 grant application will continue coordination of expanded Dial-a-Ride services with 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 two grants, on behalf of the LCCTSC and, if approved, they will be brought back to the Lake County Board for acceptance and allocation 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 Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meetings 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 of the RTA, utilizing in part existing and future local, state and/or federally funded non-traditional transit service programs; and
WHEREAS, the RTA Section 5310 grant application cycle is underway; and
WHEREAS, the RTA has federal grant funding available for projects that enhance transit, including demonstration projects, to address emerging transportation needs; and
WHEREAS, the RTA is authorized to make such grants as the designated recipient of federal Section 5310 program funds for northeastern Illinois; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, on behalf of the LCCTSC, and in cooperation with Pace, the Townships of Fremont and Libertyville, and the Villages of Libertyville and Mundelein, proposes to be the grant applicant, with the local match supplied in conformance with the Lake County Division of Transportation Paratransit Coordination with LCCTSC Policy for the RTA Section 5310 Grant for the Ride Lake County Central Project; and
WHEREAS, Lake County, on behalf of the LCCTSC, and in cooperation with Pace and the Townships of Antioch, Avon, Fremont, Grant, Lake Villa and Wauconda, proposes to be the grant applicant, with the local match supplied in accordance with the Lake County Division of Transportation Paratransit Coordination with LCCTSC Policy for the RTA Section 5310 Grant for the Ride Lake County West Project; and
WHEREAS, the RTA required authorization language for approval of a grant application, and execution of a grant itself is contained in the Governing Board RTA Section 5310 Grant Program Resolution attached hereto.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by this Lake County Board that the County Board Chair, the County Clerk and the Lake County Engineer are authorized and hereby directed to apply for separate grants, on behalf of the LCCTSC, from the RTA under its Section 5310 Program for northeast Illinois for the Ride Lake County Central and the Ride Lake County West Projects.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if the said grants are approved by the RTA, they will be brought back to the Lake County Board for acceptance.
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on March 14, 2017.