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Joint resolution authorizing the application to the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) for a 2-year grant for the Northwest Demonstration Project Dial-a-Ride in cooperation with the townships of Antioch, Avon, Grant and Lake Villa under the Job Access Reverse Commute, JARC, and New Freedom, NF, Program; subject to further County Board approval of the county funds required.
Staff Summary
· Northwest Demonstration Dial-a-Ride Project: RTA JARC/NF Grant Application
· The 2011 RTA grant cycle is underway.
· The Lake County Inter/Intra County Paratransit Transportation Plan was completed in spring of 2011.
· The 2011 RTA JARC/NF grant application will further the Plan’s goals and objectives by continuing the existing Demonstration Project while the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee, LCCTSC, works to implement coordination among the existing services.
· The Northwest Demonstration Project, was created by the LCCTSC with support from the townships of Antioch, Avon, Grant and Lake Villa and is operated by PACE.
· The requested RTA grant funds are from the federal New Freedom and JARC Program.
· The county’s role will be grant coordinator and funding towards the local match.
· 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 Lake County Board, by prior resolution at its meeting of November 14, 2006, and March 15, 2011, adopted a resolutions in support of the Lake County Coordinated Transportation Services Committee’s, LCCTSS, 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, utilizing in part...
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