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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM BRIEFING SHEET <br />Submittal Date: <br />Originating Department: <br />Presented By: <br />Agenda Item No.: <br />09/10/09 <br />Engineering, Planning & <br />Shawn Napier, P.E. <br />Council Date: <br />Development <br />Director of Engineering, Planning <br />24. <br />09/14/09 <br />& Develo ment; Earl Erickson <br />RECOMMENDED MOTION: <br />Move to approve a resolution authorizing a Transportation Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) <br />discretionary grant program in the amount of $18,755,599 for a 130-mile non-motorized pedestrian, <br />bicycling and equestrian trail project starting in Farmersville on an abandoned rail corridor to Paris to <br />New Boston/Texarkana and authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute all necessary <br />documents. <br />POLICY ISSUE(S): <br />Project Support <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The proposed TIGER grant will fund a 130-mile extension of the rails-to-trails project that includes the <br />Trail de Paris. The grant application is due September 15 for the trail project and the City of Paris will <br />be the nominating entry for the grant and project manager. Long-term maintenance of the trail will be <br />the responsibility of each government entity that the trail passes through. This grant will allow the City <br />of Paris to complete the proposed sections of the Trail de Paris. The proposed project time line has a <br />completion date of December 2011. <br />Letters of support are needed from the City Council and as many people who are willing to send support <br />letters to the trail effort, so they can be submitted with the application that is due September 15, 2009. <br />Mr. Amadeo Saenz, Jr, who is the TxDOT Executive Director, has sent a letter of support to Mr. Earl <br />Erickson for the proposed 130-mile trail project. <br />BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: <br />EXHIBITS: <br />Resolution, Project Information, Proposed Trail Map, TxDOT letter of Support <br />ACTION: <br />BUDGET INFO: <br />N/A <br />❑ Financial Report ❑ Minute Order <br />Expense <br />$ <br />❑ Department Report Z Resolution <br />Budgeted Amt. <br />$ <br />❑ Presentation ❑ Ordinance <br />y'I'D Actual <br />$ <br />❑ Public Hearing ❑ Other <br />Acct. Name <br />Acct. Number <br />FISCAL NOTES: <br />Mr. Erickson has secured $220,000 from other organizations for matching funds. <br />REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY: <br />Z Administrarion N City Clerk ❑ Communiry Development ❑ EMS/IT ❑ Finance ❑ Fire <br />❑ Municipal Court Z Legal ❑ Library ❑ Police Z Eng./Public Works ❑ Urilities <br />City of Paris Revised 2/04/08 <br />