HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem #17 - Discussion ItemJoseph R. Grassie
City Manager
Richard L . Fosmoen
Director, Planning Department
November 3, 1977
Agenda Item
City Commission Meeting, November 10, I977
Rapid Transit Station Design and Develop-
ment Trust and Agency Fund Account
It is requested that the City Commission establish a Trust
and Agency Fund Account for, and authorize appro-
priations from, a Rapid Transit Station Area Design and
Development Account, on an emergency basis.
The City Commission, by Resolution 77-644 of July 28. 1977, authorized the administration
to negotiate and execute a contract with the Dade County Office of Transportation
Administration for the provision of Planning Department services in Station Area Planning
for the Rapid Transit system. The Dade County Office of Transportation Administration
subsequently offered a contract in the amount of $ 120.000, which has been signed by the
City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk and returned to Dade County for their
concurrence. This contract is funded through the Dcide County Decade of Progress bond
funds and an Urhan Transportation -Technical Assistance Grant to Dade County from the
Urban ,,ass Transportation Administration, U. S. Department of -Transportation on a 20/80
split respectively: no City snatching share is required. All funds under the contract \a'ill be
utilized for Planning Department salaries and supplies. The contract covers a 12 month
period ending August 31, 1978.
Emergency action is requested because:
1. The participation of the Planning Department in rapid transit station area design was
not a (Departmental activity in FY '76-'77; this Department is currently constrained by
the City Commission policy expressed in Ordinance 8707, as amended, that departments
must operate at FY '76-'77 funding levels. No supplies can be purchased even though a
contract has been authorized.
2. Establishment of a Trust and Agency Fund Account immediately would allow this
Department to commence to recover for transit planning services performed.
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