Title
Apply for U.S. Department of Transportation Saving Lives with Connectivity: Accelerating Vehicle to Everything Deployment Grant Opportunity for Federal Fiscal Year 2023-24 - Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding (Ordinance S-50597)
Description
Request to retroactively authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply for, accept and, if awarded, enter into an agreement(s) for disbursement of Federal funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) through the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2024 Saving Lives with Connectivity: Accelerating Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Deployment grant opportunity. Further request to authorize the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, all funds related to this item. Funding for this grant opportunity is available through the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The total grant funds applied for will not exceed $20 million, and the combination of City and private sector local match will not exceed $7 million.
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Summary
The V2X grant is a new funding program under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which was signed into law on Nov. 15, 2021. The V2X grant offers private, public, and academic partners an opportunity to accelerate and spur new deployments of vehicle-to-everything technologies. The initiative is focused on road safety, mobility, and efficiency through technology that enables vehicles and wireless devices to communicate with each other and with roadside infrastructure and provide warnings.
The proposed grant submittal will provide red-light running data, near miss data, signal detection, and vehicle to everything technology. The proposed goals will be to reduce vulnerable road user incidents and risk, reduce red-light running risk, and improve the efficiency of City emergency vehicles by deploying onboard units for preemption and priority. The deployment will focus on 300 signalized intersections within the City's identified high-injury network while also focusing on the underserved communities in the region.
There is $40 million available through this funding opportunity with a required minimum local match of 20 percent. The USDOT issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity on Oct. 26, 2023, and it was determined to be viable on Jan. 4, 2024. The grant application submittal deadline was Jan. 17, 2024.
Financial Impact
The grant application includes a public private partnership. The City's participation would be a combination of in-kind services for the installation and a matching funds, while private sector partners will provide in-kind engineering services.
The estimated total cost for the project is approximately $27 million. The maximum federal participation rate is 80 percent, with a minimum local match of 20 percent of the total eligible project cost. If awarded, the federal participation would not exceed $20 million (74 percent), the City’s costs would be approximately $6 million (22 percent) and private sector partners would provide an in-kind match of $1 million (4 percent).
Funding for the local match is available in the Street Transportation Department's Capital Improvement Program budget.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Managers Alan Stephenson and Mario Paniagua, and the Street Transportation Department.