Department of Public Works
Reference: Intergovernmental Agreement for Colorado State Highway 7 Preliminary & Environmental Engineering Funding from Boulder to Brighton
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Marv Falconburg, Acting City Manager
Through: Michael Woodruff, Director of Infrastructure
Prepared By: Christopher Montoya, Public Works Engineering Manager
CC: Maria Ostrom, Director of Finance, and
Amber Gibbs, Procurement and Contracts Manager
Date Prepared: February 18, 2020
PURPOSE
Requesting City Council approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), Adams County, Boulder County, City and County of Broomfield, City of Lafayette, City of Thornton, Town of Erie and the City of Brighton for the Colorado State Highway 7 (SH 7) Preliminary & Environmental Engineering Project extending from Brighton to Boulder and approving the IGA giving the Mayor, or designee, authority to sign said IGA.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS
Supportive, Sustainable Infrastructure
BACKGROUND/HISTORY
This project consists of a multi-jurisdictional preliminary and environmental assessment in which CDOT will be project lead and Broomfield as the applicant for federal Transportation Improvement Program ("TIP") funds through the Denver Regional Council of Governments ("DRCOG"). Project funding consists of a total of $10 million as follows:
* $4 million in DRCOG TIP federal funding (Grant)
* $4 million in federal sub regional funds from Adams County, Boulder County and City & County of Broomfield
* $1 million from CDOT Region 1 and Region 4
* $1 million from local communities
Communities on the SH 7 Corridor have been planning for safety and multimodal capacity improvements for a number of years, as documented in the following plans and studies that provide multimodal design recommendations: 2014 SH 7 Planning & Environmental Linkage Study (US 287 to US 85), 2018 SH 7 Planning & Environmental Linkag...
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