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FFY 2020 FTA Section 5307, 5340, and 5339 and CARES Act Distribution
Crystal Odum, MPO Staff,
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Each year, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) apportions formula grant funding for use within the Raleigh Urbanized Area (UZA) to a locally selected and federally recognized designated recipient. These funds include the Section 5307, 5339 and 5340 programs. The City of Raleigh is and expects to continue to function as the designated recipient of these formula grants for the Raleigh UZA. The designated recipient is responsible for coordinating with the other providers of public transportation services in the Raleigh UZA and the MPO to develop a sub-allocation method for distributing annual formula funds received from the FTA. The MPO is also required to concur with the designated recipient's annual sub-allocation of formula grants to eligible providers.
In April 2017, the CAMPO Executive Board adopted an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Raleigh, Town of Cary, GoTriangle, Wake County and CAMPO. The MOU serves as the MPO and designated recipient-endorsed sub-allocation policy of federal formula transit grants apportioned to the Raleigh UZA. The 2017 MOU, first applied to the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2017 Raleigh UZA apportionment, will apply for five (5) years to provide a level of consistency and financial planning certainty to the providers receiving the funds.
For FFY 2020, FTA Section 5307, 5340, 5339 full apportionments to the Raleigh Urbanized Area (UZA) were released in February 2020. The City of Raleigh as the federally recognized designated recipient of these funds, has coordinated with CAMPO, the Town of Cary, GoTriangle and Wake County to develop the sub-allocation of these funding sources based on the most current MOU for the distribution of funding between the City of Raleigh, Town of Cary, GoTriangle and Wake County. Per FTA policy, the MPO must concur with the sub-allocation of UZA federal formula gr...
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