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Consideration of a Grant Application increase from the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) in the amount of $647,111.00 for the funding of the Coordinated Transit District #9 which includes the Sedgwick County Rural Transportation Program.
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Recommended Action: Approve authorization to increase budget authority as provided in the Financial Considerations section of this request for additional pass through funds. Prior grant budget authority approved on 11/19/2014, Legistar item 14-1814, contract #4158-7.
Grant Renewal: Yes
Never Applied: No
Applied; not awarded: No
Grant Summary and Timeline: This is a request to increase budget authority for additional pass through funds for the Kansas Department of Transportation FTA 5311 Rural Transportation program administered by Sedgwick County Department on Aging Transportation providing General Public Transportation services in rural areas of the County and administrative duties for Coordinated Transit District #9, South Central Region. The original grant application was budgeted in the amount of $407,194 on 11/19/2014, Legistar item 14-1814, and registered in the County Clerk's office under contract #4158-7 . KDOT has now regionalized the Coordinated Transit Districts across the State effective July 1,2015. In this regionalization shift by KDOT CTD #12 has been reorganized into the Coordinated Transit District #9, South Central region. The boundaries have been revised in the regionalization process and now includes: Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sumner, Sedgwick, Butler and Harvey Counties. This regionalization has resulted in additional pass through funds of $674,475.00 and the budget for the original application was reduced by $27,364.00 for a net budget increase of $647,111.00 and a total grant application amount of $1,054,305.00 to be administered by Sedgwick County Department on Aging as the administrator for the CTD#9 and requires an increase in budget authority. No additional Mill Levy fu...
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