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Dept/ Agency: Engineering
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X) Amending
Type of Service: Amending Resolution
Purpose: To amend Resolution 7R3-c adopted on August 5, 2020 to accept grant funding from the New Jersey Department of Transportation's Safe Streets to Transit Program.
Entity Name: New Jersey Department of Transportation, Safe Streets to Transit Program
Entity Address: P.O. Box 600, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0600
Grant Amount: $300,000.00
Total Project Cost: $300,000.00
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Grant Period: Not Applicable
Contract Basis: ( ) Bid ( ) State Vendor ( ) Prof. Ser. ( ) EUS
( ) Fair & Open ( ) No Reportable Contributions ( ) RFP ( ) RFQ
( ) Private Sale (X) Grant ( ) Sub-recipient ( ) n/a
List of Property: Not Applicable
(Address/Block/Lot/Ward/Site Known As): Not Applicable
Additional Information:
The Department of Engineering originally requested $393,000.00 in its July 6, 2020 grant application from the New Jersey Department of Transportation, Safe Streets to Transit Program.
This Resolution will amend Resolution 7R3-c, adopted on August 5, 2020 to accept $300,000.00 in grant funding.
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WHEREAS, the New Jersey Department of Transportation's ("NJDOT") for the 2021 Safe Streets to Transit Program (SST Program) provides grant funding for infrastructure improvements for traditional and non-traditional initiatives that enable and encourage walking and bicycling to transit; and
WHEREAS, on July 6, 2020, on behalf of the City of Newark, the Director of the Department of Engineering submitted an electronic grant application to NJDOT requesting grant funding in the amount of Three Hundred Ninety-Three Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents ($393,000.00) from the New Jersey Department of Transportation's 2021 SST Program to improve the intersection at Dr. Martin Luther...
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