Title:
Title
Downtown/Riverfront Streetcar Transit Project Agreement Amendments (S15131800)
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FileID
File ID: 2020-00965
Location
Location: Districts 3 and 4
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Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Motion authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager's designee to: 1) execute the Amended and Restated Interagency and Cost Reimbursement Agreement for Streetcar Funding between the City of Sacramento, the City of West Sacramento, and the Riverfront Joint Powers Authority (JPA); and 2) re-evaluate the need to maintain the Riverfront Joint Powers Authority.
FileName
Contact: Fedolia "Sparky" Harris, Principal Planner, (916) 808-2996, Public Works; David Edrosolan, Interim City Traffic Engineer, (916) 808-5974, Department of Public Works
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Presenter: Fedolia "Sparky" Harris, Principal Planner, (916) 808-2996
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Amended and Restated Interagency and Cost Reimbursement Agreement for Streetcar Funding
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: Congress appropriated $50 million for the Downtown/Riverfront Streetcar Project ("Project") and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) approved development and implementation of the Project. This Project is owned, operated, and maintained by the Riverfront JPA which estimated a total Project cost in 2018 of $208 million for acquisition of streetcar vehicles, equipment, and construction of Project facilities. As of 2018, the Project was designed as a 4.4-mile alignment that would extend from 19th Street in Midtown Sacramento to two termini in West Sacramento along Riverfront Street and the West Sacramento Civic Center, with 21 stops. Sacramento Regional Transit (RT) is designing and constructing the Project under contract with the JPA.
On March 20, 2019, the Riverfront JPA issued a stop notice to RT and its consultants and staff to cease work on the Project following an unsuccessful construction bidding process. In the intervening period, RT, the Cities, the JPA and SACOG...
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