San Francisco County Transportation Authority
Moving the City

Applications due to the Authority on Friday March 7, 2008, 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 that is expected to begin in April 2008. This solicitation is for projects under the Fiscal Year 2008/09 TFCA County Program Manager Fund for San Francisco. An estimated $1,070,000 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 February 12, 2008, this website has been updated with the Air District's final Fiscal Year 2008/09 application documents. The Authority's Local Expenditure Criteria was adopted at the February 12, 2008 Authority Board meeting.

Fiscal Year 2008/09 Call For Projects - Memoradum from Authority (pdf of memo only ) (pdf of memo and attachments )

Fiscal Year 2008/09 Local Expenditure Criteria – adopted by Authority Board on February 12, 2008 (pdf )

Air District's Fiscal Year 2008/09 TFCA County Program Manager Fund Guidance and Application Instruction (pdf )

Fiscal Year 2008/09 Project Information Form (pdf ) / (MS Word ) 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 2008/09 Cost Effectiveness Worksheets

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

• Arterial Management/Signal Timing Projects (MS Excel)

• Bus and Heavy Duty Vehicle Projects, Reducing Emissions from Existing Diesel Projects (MS Excel)

• Light-duty clean air vehicles with a GVW of 10,000 lbs. or less (MS Excel)

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