File #: 2022-2361    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Preliminary Item
File created: 10/13/2022 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 11/8/2022 Final action:
Title: Commission District(s): County-wide Request for Funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) for the FY2023 Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant Program
Attachments: 1. LMIG 2023 - LIST OF PROPOSED ROADS 10-11-22

                                    

Public Hearing:  YES      NO                                                   Department: Public Works - Roads & Drainage                                     

 

SUBJECT:

Title

Commission District(s): County-wide

Request for Funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) for the FY2023 Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant Program

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Information Contact: Peggy V. Allen

Phone Number: (404) 294-2878

 

PURPOSE:

To support submitting a request to the Georgia DOT for State funding in the FY2023 Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant Program for street resurfacing; and

To authorize the Chief Executive Officer to execute the necessary documents for this program.

 

NEED/IMPACT:

The Georgia DOT’s Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant Program (LMIG) provides funding subject to appropriation by the Legislature, for local resurfacing of streets. The County has several hundred miles of streets rated 30 or worse in the Pavement Condition Index, which warrant resurfacing. The Georgia DOT has typically had funding available to resurface about 20 miles of those streets each year. Since FY2012, the DOT no longer bids this work themselves, but instead provides reimbursement to the County, up to the maximum amount allocated to the County by formula (estimated at approximately $4,084,945.81 in 2023), provided the County demonstrates at least a 30% match. Typically, because of the amount of milling, base repair, and other work required to complete the resurfacing projects, the County’s share of the local match is usually 50% or more. Attached is a list of approximately 25 miles from the worst rated roadways in the Resurfacing backlog that will require the State’s estimated $4,084,945.81 in funds to resurface, and an estimated $8,500,000 in County matching funds, to be funded from the SPLOST Special Local Option Sales Tax if available or another county source. The DOT set a deadline for submitting our funding application to them no later than the end of January 2023 for consideration for the 2023 LMIG Program.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

Cost to the county  $8,500,000.00

 

RECOMMENDATION:

Recommended Action

Submit the request to the Georgia DOT for State funding in the FY2023 Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant Program for street resurfacing; and Authorize the Chief Executive Officer to execute the necessary documents for this program.