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Dept/ Agency: Engineering
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Application/Acceptance of Grant Funds
Purpose: Application/Acceptance of Grant Funds for the NJDOT 2024 Safe Streets to Transit (SST) Program
Entity Name: New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT)
Entity Address: P.O. Box 600, Trenton, New Jersey 08625
Grant Amount: $420,120.00
Total Project Cost: $420,120.00
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: (if applicable)
(Address/Block/Lot/Ward)
Additional Information:
This Resolution authorizes the City of Newark to apply for grant funding in the amount of $420,120.00 from the NJDOT 2024 Safe Streets to Transit Program, with no municipal funds required.
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WHEREAS, the State of New Jersey Department of Transportation ("NJDOT") for the 2024 Safe Streets to Transit Program (SST Program) provides grant funding for infrastructure improvements for traditional and non-traditional transportation initiatives that enable and encourage walking and bicycling to transit; and
WHEREAS, the City of Newark (the "City") desires to obtain funding from the 2024 SST Program to improve Newark's designated Transit Village Area; and
WHEREAS, on July 1, 2023, on behalf of the City of Newark, the Acting Director of the Department of Engineering submitted an electronic grant application to NJDOT requesting grant funding in the amount of Four Hundred Twenty Thousand One Hundred Twenty Dollars and Zero Cents ($420,120.00), from the New Jersey Department of Transportation's 2024 SST Program, to improve Newark's designated Transit Village Area,...
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