MEMORANDUM
DATE: August 7, 2024
TO: Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority Citizen Advisory Committee
FROM: Rick Sonnenburg, Program/Contracts Manager
SUBJECT: Board Policy #34: State and Federal Discretionary Grant Match Fund Program
ACTION REQUESTED: Recommendation
As the CAC will recall, in the lead-up to the November 2022 ballot measure for the PPRTA-3 Capital projects renewal, the member governments’ staff members, the CAC, and the Board prepared an extensive list of issues (at the time it was called a matrix) to be discussed and decided by the Board. This matrix was approved by the Board at its January 2022 meeting.
One of the issues on the matrix that the Board decided was to place on the November 2022 ballot a new program fund in the “Regional Collaborative Projects” section called “State and Federal Discretionary Grant Match Fund—Phase 1.” Since the voter-approved PPRTA-3 Capital list starts in January 2025, it is timely to review and approve a Board Policy regarding how member governments might use this new fund, especially since member governments might want to place a request to use this fund in the FY 2025 budget, which gets underway in September.
Attached is an excerpt from the Board-approved ‘matrix’ describing this new fund. Also attached is a draft Board Policy #34 establishing guidelines for the use of this new fund.
Recommendation to the Committee:
The PPRTA staff recommends that the CAC approve a positive recommendation to the Board for the adoption of Board Policy #34.