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Dept/ Agency: Engineering
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Application/Acceptance of Grant Funds
Purpose: Application and Acceptance of Grant Funds for the NJDOT 2025 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: $1,376,569.50
Total Project Cost: $1,376,569.50
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)
Additional Information:
This Resolution authorizes the City of Newark to apply for grant funding in the amount of $1,376,569.50 and to accept any lesser and greater amount from the NJDOT 2025 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 2025 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 2025 SST Program to improve Heller Parkway Safety Improvement in the designated Transit Village Area; and
WHEREAS, the Acting Director of the Department of Engineering will submit an electronic grant application on July 1, 2024 to NJDOT, on behalf of the City of Newark, requesting grant funding in the amount of One Million Three Hundred Seventy-Six Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-Nine Dollars and Fifty Cents ($1,376,569.50), from the New Jersey Department of T...
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