San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Moving the City

Applications due to the Authority on Friday, April 29, 2011, 5 p.m.

The Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program (TFCA) was established to fund the most effective transportation projects that achieve emission reductions from motor vehicles. Funds are generated from a $4 surcharge on the vehicle registration fee. Forty percent of the funds are set aside for Program Managers for each of the nine counties in the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District). The designated Program Manager for the City and County of San Francisco is the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (Authority). The remaining sixty percent of the revenues, referred to as the Regional Fund, is distributed on a competitive basis to applicants from the nine Bay Area counties. The Regional Fund is administered by the Air District through a separate application process. This solicitation is for projects under the Fiscal Year 2011/12 TFCA County Program Manager Fund for San Francisco. An estimated $750,000 will be available to San Francisco's Program Manager Fund for this cycle. There is no local match requirement.

APPLICATION MATERIALS

The completed application must contain the following items:

• Signed transmittal letter
• Project information sheet in both hard copy and electronic copy (as a Microsoft Word email attachment) for each project 
• Either as part of 2 above or as a separate attachment, the application materials shall contain:
  • Description of the status of any non-TFCA funds (e.g. committed or not) that are needed to fully fund the project. Prop K funds should include a reference to the Expenditure Plan line item(s) from which the funds would come and indicate whether or not the future request is consistent with the relevant 5-Year Prioritization Program(s);
  • Schedule for all project phases (e.g. design, construction); and
  • Detailed major line item budget by phase.
• Cost effectiveness worksheet for each project in both hard copy and electronic copy (as a Microsoft Excel email attachment).

The final project information sheet and cost-effectiveness worksheet for each project are subject to review and modification by the Authority and the Air District.

TFCA PROGRAM GUIDANCE AND APPLICATION DOWNLOADS

As of January 31, 2011, this website has been updated with the final Fiscal Year 2011/12 application documents.

• Fiscal Year 2011/12 Call For Projects - Memoradum from the Authority (PDF): memo only; or memo and attachments
• Fiscal Year 2011/12 Local Expenditure Criteria (PDF)
• Air District's Fiscal Year 2011/12 TFCA County Program Manager Fund Guidance and Application Instruction (PDF)
• Fiscal Year 2011/12 Project Information Form (PDF or MS Word doc) and Authority instructions on completing the form (PDF)

Please note that applications submitted in response to the San Francisco call for projects must include more detail that the Air District requires in the Project Schedule section, and a Project Budget section has been added. These modifications are included in the Project Information Form but not referenced in the Air District's Program Guidance document.

Fiscal Year 2011/12 Cost Effectiveness Worksheets

• Instructions for Ridesharing, Shuttles, Bicycle, Smart Growth, Traffic Calming, and Transit Priority Projects (PDF)

• Ridesharing, Shuttles, Bicycle, Smart Growth, Traffic Calming, and Transit Priority Projects (Excel)

• Arterial Management/Signal Timing (Excel)

• Heavy-Duty Vehicle Projects, Reducing Emissions from Existing Diesel Projects (Excel)

• Light-Duty/Light Heavy-Duty Alternative Fuels Vehicles and Infrastructure (Excel)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

We encourage project sponsors to contact us early in the application preparation process to discuss proposed project(s). Please call Chad Rathmann, Transportation Planner, at 415-522-4825 or email him if you have any questions.