Emergency Ordinance
*Authorize Subrecipient Grant Agreement with Organizing People/Activating Leaders in the amount of $36,000 for fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026 for the Equitable Options, Empowered People Project
Passed
The City of Portland ordains:
Section 1. The Council finds:
- The City of Portland is the recipient of $1,095,000 funding passed through Metro Regional Transportation Options (RTO) Program.
- The RTO Program is designed to manage demand on the transportation system and increasing use of travel options. The Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) Active Transportation & Safety Division program, Equitable Options, Empowered People Project will develop, implement, and analyze an individualized marketing program, series of bike focused neighborhood programs, bike rides, and an open streets program to bring robust active transportation opportunities to community-led events.
- A key component of the Equitable Options, Empowered People Project is a partnership with OPAL. This partnership will increase the project’s ability to reach traditionally under-represented groups that the City of Portland is striving to provide opportunities to engage in active transportation. By combining City of Portland’s demonstrated success in transportation demand management programs and these partner organizations’ skills in engaging and serving underserved communities, the project will help provide opportunities for active transportation throughout the city in more equitable ways.
- The Bureau's level of confidence in the cost estimates for this project is 100%.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council directs:
- That the Commissioner-in-Charge is hereby authorized to enter into a contract with OPAL in a form similar to the contract attached as Exhibit A in the amount of $36,000.
- The Commissioner-in-Charge is authorized to execute amendments, approved as to form by the City Attorney, to the scope of the services or the terms and conditions of this Agreement, provided the changes do not increase the total project cost by twenty percent (20%) or greater.
Section 2. The Council declares that an emergency exists because a delay would unnecessarily delay the City’s ability to perform the activities authorized by the grant; therefore, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council.
Official Record (Efiles)
An ordinance when passed by the Council shall be signed by the Auditor. It shall be carefully filed and preserved in the custody of the Auditor (City Charter Chapter 2 Article 1 Section 2-122)
Passed by Council
Auditor of the City of Portland
Simone Rede
Impact Statement
Purpose of Proposed Legislation and Background Information
- The Ordinance authorizes a Subrecipient Agreement with OPAL as part of Metro’s Regional Travel Options grant that is awarded to PBOT and authorized through City Council Ordinance. This subrecipient was identified to collaborate with PBOT on transportation demand management programs to reach under-served and under-represented constituencies in the city of Portland. The agreement authorizes OPAL in the amount of $36,000 over three years from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026 to promote active transportation modes.
Financial and Budgetary Impacts
- This subrecipient agreement for $36,000 is funded through grant funding from Metro. PBOT will receive $1,095,000 from Metro and this subrecipient activity will be paid out of this funding.
- The subrecipient agreement with OPAL will fall under project number TR03620001. The grant number is TR000362.
- This subrecipient agreement formalizes OPAL as a subrecipient to PBOT to deliver as the grant awardee from Metro’s Regional Travel Options grant program.
- The budget was determined from the items identified in the scope of work.
- This sub-recipient agreement is budgeted as a part of grant TR000362, and no additional funding is requested with this ordinance.
Community Impacts and Community Involvement
- This partnership with OPAL will support the delivery of information and encouragement to use transportation options to under-served and under-represented constituencies in the city of Portland.
- OPAL has close relationships with community members who are BIPOC, low-income, youth, and/or transit-dependent. Through this partnership, PBOT and the City will enhance and expand the reach of the Active Transportation & Safety Division’s Transportation Demand Management work with these key communities.
100% Renewable Goal
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