File #: 19114    Version: 0 Name: transfer of Off-System Replacement Bridge funds
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 3/24/2016 In control: Public Works Committee
On agenda: 3/28/2016 Final action: 4/4/2016
Title: A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Letter of Understanding with the Lafayette County Commission and the Missouri Department of Transportation related to the transfer of Off-System Replacement Bridge funds, in accordance with the Missouri Highway Bridge Program.
Sponsors: Greg Grounds
Indexes: LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING, MISSOURI HIGHWAYS & TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION
Attachments: 1. 19114bu.pdf, 2. 19114adopt.pdf, 3. 19114-LTROFUNDSTD-MODOT.pdf
Related files: 4937, 20061

IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

Title

A RESOLUTION authorizing the County Executive to execute a Letter of Understanding with the Lafayette County Commission and the Missouri Department of Transportation related to the transfer of Off-System Replacement Bridge funds, in accordance with the Missouri Highway Bridge Program.

                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Intro

RESOLUTION NO. 19114, March 28, 2016

 

INTRODUCED BY Greg Grounds, County Legislator

 

Body

 WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s Highway Bridge Program authorizes bridge replacement and rehabilitation for certain eligible bridges throughout Missouri’s counties; and,

 

WHEREAS, federal funds are available to finance up to 80% of an eligible project’s cost, but may be increased with the use of credits earned from replacing, with the County’s own funds, an eligible bridge that is not on the federal-aid system list; and,

 

WHEREAS, if a Local Public Agency (LPA) replaces or rehabilitates an eligible bridge with its own funds, the LPA may receive a credit, known as a “Soft Match Credit,” that can be applied to the non-federal share on another federal aid bridge project; and,

 

WHEREAS, more sparsely populated counties receive less transportation funding to apply toward their bridge replacement and rehabilitation programs; and,

 

WHEREAS, Jackson County currently has an Off-System Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program (BRO) fund balance in the amount of $5,192,056.65 and only $0.18 in Soft Match Credit; and,

 

WHEREAS, Lafayette County, Missouri, has a negative balance of BRO funds and a Soft Match Credit in the amount of $284,080.60; and,

 

WHEREAS, an exchange with Lafayette County will allow Jackson County to use this Soft Match Credit balance toward its 20% cash match for future bridge projects under the BRO program, thereby reducing the required County cash expenditure; and,

 

WHEREAS, Lafayette County and the Jackson County Director of Public Works recommend a BRO fund and Soft Match Credit exchange, which would allow Jackson County to have actual funds applied to its Soft Match Credit account for use on future BRO programs, in exchange for the transfer of off-system bridge funds to Lafayette County; and,

 

WHEREAS, the attached Letter of Understanding is the appropriate mechanism for authorizing this transfer of state BRO funds within the Highway Bridge Program; now therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the County Executive be and hereby is authorized to execute the attached Letter of Understanding with the Missouri Department of Transportation and the Lafayette County Commission; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all County officials be and hereby are authorized to execute any and all documents and take any other actions necessary to give effect to this Resolution.

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

                     

 

______________________________                                          ________________________________

Chief Deputy County Counselor                     County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

                     I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution No. 19114 of March 28, 2016, was duly passed on April 4, 2016 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

                     Yeas _______8________                                                    Nays _____0______

 

 

                     Abstaining ____0_______                                                               Absent ____0_____

 

 

                     Excused _____1_______

 

 

 

 

______________________                                                               ________________________________

Date                                                                                                                                                   Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature