Vote: approved

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52. AMENDMENT TO ADOT SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM GRANT Authorize the extension of the ADOT Safe Routes to School Program Grant to June 30, 2009 and approve the revenue and expenditure appropriation increase in the amount of $15,318.52 in FY2008-09 to the Public Works (910) Transportation Grant Fund (223) Non-Recurring (0001). The appropriation increase is necessary because these funds were not included in the FY 2008-09 budget. Grant revenues are not local revenues for the purpose of the constitutional expenditure limitation, and therefore, expenditure of the funds is not prohibited by the budget law. The approval of this action requested does not alter the budget constraining the expenditures of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. §42-17105. On August 22, 2007, the Board approved the application and acceptance of reimbursement grant funding from the ADOT Safe Routes to School Program -- Round One (Agenda Item C-64-08-017-3-00). In late September 2007, MCDOT received notice to proceed (NTP) to implement the MCDOT Safe Routes to School Program that was awarded reimbursement grant funding in the amount of $37,777 from the ADOT Safe Routes to School Program – Round One. The funding allows MCDOT to start-up Safe Routes to School Programs in nineteen (19) schools in the unincorporated areas of Maricopa County , plus four (4) schools in Litchfield Park . By the time the NTP was received from ADOT, MCDOT had worked out a transfer of a larger, related Safe Routes to School Support Center Transportation Enhancement grant to Valley Metro. In order to coordinate with this larger, two-year funding source and receive the benefits of its additional resources, MCDOT has delayed the actual implementation of the smaller ADOT Safe Routes to School funding to coincide with the implementation of the Valley Metro grant. In FY2008, MCDOT has expended $22,458.48 of the $37,777 in grant funding to obtain materials needed to implement the program in the upcoming school year and needs to move the rest of the grant reimbursement into FY09 to cover costs of additional goods and services necessary for the MCDOT Safe Routes to School Program during the 2008-2009 school year. The MCDOT Safe Routes to School Program is located in Supervisorial Districts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. (C-64-08-017-3-01)