SFBOS Budget & Finance Committee Meeting

Agenda

[Grant Agreements – Bicycle Projects – $166,200]
Sponsor: Mar
Resolution approving three Bicycle Facility Program Grant Agreements with the Bay
Area Air Quality Management District with contract terms of more than 10 years

[Grant Agreements – Bicycle Projects – $166,200]

Sponsor: Mar

Resolution approving three Bicycle Facility Program Grant Agreements with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District with contract terms of more than 10 years

[Accept and Expend Grant – Congestion Management Agency Block Grant – $11,553,000]

Sponsor: Mayor

Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works to accept and expend $11,553,000 in federal Surface Transportation Program and/or Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement funds awarded through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Congestion Management Agency Block Grant Program.

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