Title
Approving a resolution of the City of Pflugerville, Texas adopting a goal of zero traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2035, pursuing the completion of a Safe Streets and Roads for All action plan, and supporting and approving the submittal of an application to the United States Department of Transportation's Safe Streets and Roads for all Funding (SS4A) grant program.
Summary
The purpose of the US Department of Transportation's Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program is to improve roadway safety by significantly reducing or eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries through safety action plan development and refinement and implementation focused on all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, public transportation users, motorists, personal conveyance and micromobility users, and commercial vehicle operators (e.g., freight trucks).
The SS4A program funds two types of grants: planning and demonstration grants and implementation grants. To qualify for the SS4A implementation grants, a city must have in place a goal of eliminating traffic-related deaths and serious injuries and a comprehensive safety action plan. The City of Pflugerville does not have a safety action plan; therefore, the application being submitted is for a planning grant to support the development of a safety action plan for the City of Pflugerville. The SS4A has over $1.2 billion available for FY24 grants, with $461 million expected to be set aside for planning and demonstration only grants. For those grants, the SS4A program generally expects a minimum of $100,000 and maximum of $10,000,000, with a required 20% match by the city.
This is an important grant opportunity for the City of Pflugerville for several reasons.
Addressing transportation safety is a critical need for the city. Below is a list of the fatalities and serious injuries in the last five years within the city limits (according to the TxDOT Crash Records Information System)
In 20...
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