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The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
Fiscal Year 2015 Transit Allocation from FTA
March 5, 2014
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DISCUSSION
The Transit Division budget recommendation for Fiscal Year 2015 includes a revenue
budget of $945,516 for Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
Today, the Iowa Office of Public Transit provided the Transit Department the actual FTA
allocation amount of $1,115,479 for Federal Fiscal Year 2014. This allocation is for
September 2014 thru October 2015. This increase in funding is due to the increased
ridership from the shopping circulator which is now included in the formula allocation.
The increased allocation from FTA results in increased Transit revenue of $78,000 in
FY 2014 and $169,963 in FY 2015.
Transit Manager Candace Eudaley has recommended that the additional $78,000 in
revenue in FY 2014 be used to provide the $64,450 local match on the Transit Roof and
Sprinkler Upgrade that is currently underway at the Transit Facility. This
recommendation would need to be included in the second FY 2014 budget amendment.
Transit Manager Candace Eudaley has also recommended that the bus security camera
connection is upgraded at an estimated one-time cost of $159,000 to be funded with the
increased allocation from FTA in Fiscal Year 2015. The FTA requires that 1% of the
allocation is used for safety and security measures. The transit buses are in need of a
security camera connection upgrade and connection to the City system. Currently, the
bus cameras run on tapes that must be physically removed from each bus to be viewed.
This process of retrieving the tapes and downloading the video, saving individual clips
and returning the tapes is inefficient and results in a slow response time. This
recommendation would need to be included in the first FY 2015 budget amendment.
RECOMMENDATION
I respectfully recommend Mayor and City Council approval subject to a future
amendment of the Fiscal Year 2014 budget to include the $64,450 local match on the
Transit Roof and Sprinkler Upgrade and approval subject to a future budget amendment
of the Fiscal Year 2015 budget to include $159,000 for the security camera connection
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Office of Public Transit
March 4, 2014
Mokhtee Ahmad, Regional Administrator
Federal Transit Administration
901 Locust Street, Suite 404
Kansas City, MO 64106
www.iowadot.gov/transit
800 Lincoln Way, Ames IA 50010
Re: Sub -allocation of Iowa's FFY 2014 Statewide Apportionment of 5307 Funds (CFDA No. 20.507)
Dear Mokhtee:
Recently FTA published the full appropriations for the FFY 2014 Section 5307 funding based on the
national Section 5307 formula defined under MAP -21. The Iowa DOT is allocating those funds to each
urbanized area to be used for operating support or for capital projects at their discretion.
FY14 Formula
Ames $ 1,970,542
Cedar Rapids 2,610,523
Dubuque 1,115,479
Iowa City 2,442,862
Sioux City 1,372,344
Waterloo 1,590,109
Total $11,101,859
If you have any questions about this information, please feel free to contact me at 515-239-1659.
Sincerely,
Michelle McEnany, Director
Office of Public Transit
cc: Sheri Kyras, CyRide
Rudy Koester, City of Ames
Brad DeBrower, eBrower, Cedar Rapids Transit
Adam Lindenlaub, Linn County Regional Planning Commission
Brad Neumann, Johnson County Council of Governments
Brian McClatchey, University of Iowa - Cambus
Chris O'Brien, Iowa City Transit
Vicky Robrock, Coralville Transit
Candace. Eudaley, The Jule, Dubuque
Kelley Deutmeyer, East Central Intergovernmental Association
Mike Collett, Sioux City Transit
Michelle Bostinelos, Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council
Mark Little, Waterloo MET
Kevin Blanshan, Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments