HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-061 CCRMember Kragness introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 2025-061
RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR A FY 2025
SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL (SS4A) PLANNING &
DEMONSTRATION GRANT APPLICATION
WHEREAS the Safe Streets and Roads for All ("SS4A") discretionary -grant
program —created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act —will distribute approximately
$982 million in FY 2025, including roughly $402 million for Planning & Demonstration Grants
that help local governments eliminate roadway fatalities and serious injuries; and
WHEREAS between 2018 and 2022, the City of Brooklyn Center experienced 23
traffic -related fatalities, 51 serious -injury crashes, and 316 minor -injury crashes on city streets, the
highest five-year total in the past decade; and
WHEREAS the City lacks a comprehensive, locally focused roadmap to evaluate
its 224lane-mile roadway network, and completing a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan (the
"Plan") is a mandatory prerequisite for future SS4A Implementation Grants, which range from
$2.5 million to $25 million per award and averaged $11.5 million to local governments in FY 2024;
and
WHEREAS the Plan will build on the City's ongoing traffic -calming initiatives and
the adopted 2025 Park Capital Investment Plan, which identified critical bicycle and pedestrian
connections between city parks and
WHEREAS the City intends to request $120,000 in federal
Planning & Demonstration funds toward a $150,000 project and will provide the required
20 percent local match ($30,000) using unspent funds from the 2025 Park Capital Investment Plan;
and
WHEREAS completion of the Plan will position Brooklyn Center to compete for
significantly larger Implementation Grants and other federal or state safety funding;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Brooklyn Center that:
1. The City supports and approves the submission of a FY 2025 SS4A
Planning & Demonstration Grant application for the development of the Brooklyn Center
Comprehensive Safety Action Plan.
2. The City commits to providing a $30,000 local match, to be paid from unspent 2025 Park
Capital Investment Plan funds, along with necessary in -kind staff support.
3. City staff are authorized and directed to execute all documents and take all actions
necessary to submit the application and administer the grant.
4. Upon award, staff shall return to the Council with any required agreements for acceptance
of the grant funds.
23 2025
Date Mayor
ATTEST: 4-lu
City Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Jerzak
and upon vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof:
Graves, Jerzak, Kragness, Lawrence -Anderson, Moore
and the following voted against the same: none
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.