Vote: approved

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55. AGREEMENT WITH MARICOPA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS FOR GILBERT ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT Approve a Revenue Agreement (Project Agreement No. 16-GIL-20-03, “Agreement”) between Maricopa County, acting through the Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT), and Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) for the Gilbert Road Bridge over the Salt River (MCDOT sub-project T339). This project is currently programmed in MAG’s Arterial Life Cycle Program (ALCP), which is reflected in this Agreement. The purpose of this action is to: 1) approve the Project Agreement for MAG regional reimbursements of federal-aid highway funding associated with the design and construction of bridge and roadway improvements; and 2) authorize the acceptance and expenditure of local and grant funds (federal aid highway funding reimbursements), including any additional monies in excess of the currently-estimated amount of $14,004,747 programmed by MAG. This Agreement is effective from the MAG approval date until completion of all reimbursements. The County’s estimated MAG regional match contribution is 30% of the total project costs, or anticipated to be $6,002,034, based on the current ALCP programming. Any additional right-of-way costs will be from MCDOT local funding; design and construction will be partially reimbursed from the ALCP. The construction of this Project is currently budgeted for FY2018 and FY2019; however, a combination of available ALCP closeout funds, anticipated federal advance construction authorizations and savings from other MCDOT ALCP projects may increase MCDOT’s regional reimbursement to offset anticipated higher project costs. MCDOT’s FY2016 indirect cost rate is 7.4%. All costs under this Agreement are for capital expenditures, which are not subject to indirect cost recovery. 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. Approval of this requested action does not alter the budget constraining the expenditures of local revenues duly adopted by the Board pursuant to A.R.S. Section 42-17105. As the lead agency, MCDOT has submitted the required MAG Project Overview and must also submit a County-approved Project Agreement (this Revenue Agreement) to MAG. Without this Agreement, MCDOT cannot be authorized to receive ALCP reimbursement funding for costs it incurs on eligible Project activities. The Gilbert Road Bridge project activities will include design, right-of-way and construction. Under the Project Agreement, the agencies will coordinate the Arterial Life Cycle Program construction funding, which will be budgeted in FY2019 for Transportation Department (640), Transportation Capital Project Fund (234) for sub-project T339. Supervisory District No. 2 (C-64-16-107-M-00)

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