DATE: December 10, 2015
TO: Council Sustainability Committee
FROM: Director of Utilities and Environmental Services
SUBJECT
Title
Update on Car Sharing Grant
Recommendation
RECOMMENDATION
That the Committee reviews and comments on this report.
Body
BACKGROUND
Staff submitted an application for a car sharing grant in October 2014 and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) approved the application on December 18, 2014, formally selecting Hayward to be included in the 2015 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The 2015 TIP is a comprehensive listing of projects in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area that are to receive federal funds this year through MTC.
The purpose of this report is to provide an update on the progress of the grant and receive the Committee's input. Specifically, staff would appreciate input on the suggested provisions for the Car Sharing Request for Proposals (RFP). For more background on car sharing and this grant, please see the original staff reports to the Sustainability Committee and City Council. Links to those reports are provided in the Related Items section at the end of this report.
DISCUSSION
Timeline
The original grant timeline anticipated getting the authorization to proceed from the Federal Department of Transportation (DOT) by January 2015. However, there have been staffing constraints at Caltrans and discussions with MTC about eligible expenses. In specific, there have been issues with finding vehicles that meet the City's efficiency goals as well as the grant requirements. Because of this, the project is approximately eleven months behind the originally proposed schedule.
In order to move the project forward, staff recently revised the project scope with MTC to use the grant funds entirely for marketing, rather than to subsidize the purchase of vehicles. Staff spoke with the car sharing providers and they preferred support in the form of marketin...
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