TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Missie Barletto, Director of Public Works
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: March 6, 2023
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APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION. NO. 37-23 FOR AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY FOR THE INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF DECORATIVE LIGHTS AND POLES FOR THE BARWICK ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to Approve Resolution No. 37-23 for approval of an Agreement with Florida Power & Light (FPL), to install 85 new LED Street Decorative Lights for the Barwick Roadway Improvements Project; authorizing the City Manager to execute any amendments and/or renewals thereto and take all actions necessary to effectuate this agreement.
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Background:
The Palm Beach Transportation Planning Agency (TPA) administers competitive grant application processes annually for the funding of projects located within Palm Beach County. The grant application process typically commences in January, when the Transportation Planning Agency (TPA) posts online application materials. The Long-Range Transportation Plan Directions 2040 carved out future allocations of TPA Surface Transportation funds to be used at the TPA's discretion. As a result, the Local Initiatives (LI) program was created as an annual application process to identify and evaluate potential funding for lower-cost, non-regionally significant transportation projects identified by local communities. This is a cost reimbursement program where projects are selected by the TPA but administered by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).
The program funds on and off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities; infrastructure for improving non-driver access to public transportation for enhanced mobility; community improvement activities; environmental mitigation; recreational trail projects; safe routes to school projects; and projects for planning, designing, or constructing boulevards and other roadways largely in the right-of-way of former...
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