PREPARED BY: MATT RODRIGUEZ DATE OF MEETING: 03/18/2024
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CONSIDER CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZATION TO RATIFY A 2024 - 2025 FEDERAL FUNDING REQUEST FOR CITY PRIORITY PROJECTS TRANSMITTED ON MARCH 1, 2024 FROM SAN PABLO MAYOR PONCE TO THE CITY’S FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES (U.S. SENATORS ALEX PADILLA (D-CA); AND LAPHONZA BUTLER, (D-CA); AND U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE GARAMENDI, D-8TH DISTRICT)
CEQA: This proposed action not a project as defined by CEQA.
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Approve by Minute Order
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Compliance statements
Federal Budget Earmarks for San Pablo Projects is not an applicable policy item contained in the adopted FY 2023-25 City Council Priority Workplan, effective May 1, 2023.
BACKGROUND
The City Manager’s Office (CMO), in collaboration with the City’s lobbyist, Townsend Public Affairs (TPA), have been in direct communication with the following City Federal Representatives regarding potential one-time capital funding requests to be included in the forthcoming 2024-25 Federal Budget cycle to support active City infrastructure projects needing additional Federal funding support, as follows:
U.S. Senate Representatives(CA)
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D)
U.S. Senator LaPhonza Butler (D)
U.S. Congressional Representative (CA-8th District):
Congressional Representative John Garamendi
FY 2024-25 State Budget Funding Earmarks
In February 2024, TPA contacted the CMO to inform of the potential Federal Budget one-time earmarks that would be considered for City infrastructure projects during the upcoming 2024-25 federal budget funding cycle.
As part of this funding process, Federal Representatives will carefully review all direct funding requests from their respective District representative cities. Only those Federal Funding requests deemed appropriate for federal funding support will be considered for potential funding via the Federal Budget one-time earmark process. With guidance provided by TPA, CMO developed the following list of active City capital projects needing potential one-time Federal funding consideration to meet the City’s current project management and construction management goals, as follows:
SAN PABLO CAPITAL PROJECTS UNDER FEDERAL FUNDING CONSIDERATION:
Project No.1: San Pablo Avenue Bridge Replacement and Intersection Realignment Project
Total Federal Funding Request: $9.5 Million
Project No.2: Expansion of Municipal Public Fiber/Wireless Network (Phase II)
Total Federal Funding Request: $3 million
Project No.3: Development of Community-wide EV Charging Station for All EV Vehicles/ Total Federal Funding Request: $3 million
Project No.4 Public Safety Camera Infrastructure Replacement and Expansion
Total Federal Funding Request: $3 million
Project No.5 Real-Time Information Center Infrastructure to Support Cyber Crime Investigations Total Federal Funding Request: $2 million
NOTE: Due to the Federal Government’s current ‘gridlock’ and delay on approval of 2023-24 Federal funding earmark requests, the City is being asked to re-submit previous projects for this year’s funding consideration. Some of these projects noted above are new and repetitive in nature. At this time, it is unknown if any or a portion of 2023-24 Federal Funding requests will be appropriated before the end of the Federal Fiscal Year period end on September 30, 2024.
City Manager Recommendation
CMO and TPA staff drafted an appropriate Federal Funding request letter with one-time capital funding requests and project narratives for execution by San Pablo Mayor Ponce to transmit to the City’s Federal Representatives to meet the Federal Funding earmark funding deadline in mid-March 2024.
This evening, the City Manager requests formal ratification approval by majority vote (via minute order) of the attached letter from San Pablo Mayor Ponce (on behalf of the San Pablo City Council) to support the City’s requests for one-time Federal Budget earmarks for the 2024 - 25 Federal budget cycle which was transmitted on March 1, 2024 through our lobbyist, TPA, to the City’s Federal Representatives noted above.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact associated with this agenda item.
ATTACHMENT
Att A - Letter transmitted on March 1, 2024 from San Pablo Mayor Patricia Ponce re: 2024- 25 Federal Budget Funding Requests from the City of San Pablo to the City’s Federal Representatives