Title
Request Authorization to Submit Federal Transit Administration Low- or No-Emission Grant Program and Buses and Bus Facilities Grant Applications and Enter into Grant Agreements - Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding (Ordinance S-48658)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or the City Manager's designee, to submit applications to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for grant assistance from the FTA's Low- or No-Emission Program and Buses and Bus Facilities Program and to enter into an agreement with FTA to accept any grants awarded. Further request to authorize the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, all funds related to this item. Funding for these grant opportunities is available through the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The total grant funds applied for will not exceed $16,362,600.
Report
Summary
The City of Phoenix is the designated recipient of FTA grant funds for the Phoenix-Mesa Urbanized Area. The City is requesting grant funding from the Section 5339 Low- or No-Emission Program and Buses and Bus Facilities Program. Grants under these programs are provided for capital projects that: replace, rehabilitate, purchase, or lease buses (including zero- and low-emission transit buses) and related equipment; or rehabilitate, purchase, construct, or lease bus-related facilities. These programs support local and federal initiatives to build modern infrastructure and an equitable, clean-energy future.
The Public Transit Department will seek to utilize a combination of local-match and grant funding for the City's purchase of zero-emission bus technology (including battery electric and hydrogen-fuel-cell electric buses), spare parts, specialized tools, and infrastructure required to support the vehicles; as well as for workforce training needed to maintain the vehicles.
The grant submission will be a scalable request so that FTA may award grant funding for the purchase of either three, six or 18 zero-emission buses, and associated infrastructure and workforce training, depending on funding availability.
The FTA's application deadline is May 31, 2022.
Financial Impact
The maximum total grant request will not exceed $16,362,600, with $2,474,400 local match.
The local match portion will be a mixture of regional Public Transportation Funds (Proposition 400) and Public Transit Transportation 2050 (T2050) funds. Potential grant funding received is available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Public Transit Department.