Title
Amending the Public Works grant budget for a Department of Transportation grant of $4,000,000.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul (“City”) is leading the Twin Cities Electric Vehicle Mobility Network (the “project”) project which will deliver 70 electric vehicle (EV) charging hubs across Saint Paul and Minneapolis, with each hub providing both public EV charging and EV charging dedicated to use by an 150-electric vehicle carshare service that will be operated by HOURCAR; and
WHEREAS, the City of Saint Paul has been awarded a federal Congestion Mitigation Air Quality
(CMAQ) grant of $4 million for the project through the Metropolitan Council’s Transportation Advisory Board regional solicitation in the 2021-2024 Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan; and
WHEREAS, the City has entered into Agreement No. 1044951 with the Minnesota Department of Transportation for federal funding to lease electric vehicles for the Twin City Electric Vehicle
Mobility Network Project.; and
WHEREAS, the City committed to completion of the project under Council Resolutions 20-1370 and 20-1371; and
WHEREAS, the funds will be used to lease up to 150 electronic vehicle carshare vehicle leases for 70 mobility hubs in the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis; now,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Saint Paul, upon recommendation of the Mayor, that $4,000,000 is available for appropriation in the Elect V Charging Stations budgets, as heretofore adopted and amended by this Council, is hereby further amended in the following particulars:
Financial Analysis
See Attachment.