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BACKGROUND The Transportation Development Act is a State of California law that provides funding through State sales tax for projects that comply with regional transportation plans. Article 3 of the TDA provides funding for bicycle and pedestrian related projects. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission oversees the allocation of these funds, based on population, within the nine county Bay Area region. MTC makes annual distributions of TDA Article 3 funds to eligible claimants after review of applications submitted. Eligible project types for these funds include the construction and/or engineering of a capital project that would construct or maintain a bikeway; bicycle safety education programs; development of bicycle or pedestrian facilities; restriping of bike lanes and other pedestrian and bicycle-related construction projects. DISCUSSION Per the Alameda County guidelines, Staff is required to present the TDA Article 3 funds request to the City of Pleasanton Bicycle, Pedestrian and Trails Committee (BPTC) and request a formal recommendation prior to bringing the item to City Council for approval. Due to the current Shelter-In-Place order from COVID-19, the BPTC meetings have been cancelled through the end of May, 2020. The next scheduled BPTC meeting will be on June 29th, 2020. To meet the funding deadline, Staff has been instructed by Alameda County to seek approval from City Council and subsequently have the BPTC review the item at its next official meeting. Staff recommends that an application be submitted for bicycle and pedestrian improvements at various locations within the city, including four projects previously identified and supported by the BPTC, but for which funding has been lacking. At the October, 2019 BPTC meeting, the Committee supported several projects that would fall under Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements at Various Locations CIP (CIP No. 20543). These projects included: • Valley Avenue at Hansen Drive: design and construction of bulb-outs to shorten pedestrian crossing. • Iron Horse Trail Wayfinding: signing and striping improvements at the major intersection crossings of the Iron Horse Trail. • Stoneridge Drive Buffered Bike Lanes: addition of buffer between bike lane and travel lane on Stoneridge Drive between Santa Rita Road and Trevor Parkway. • Bernal at Hearst and Bernal at Kottinger: modify lane and bike configurations to improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities. Staff noted at the October 2019 BPTC meeting that the cost of these four projects would exceed the existing available funding for CIP 20543, provided through County Measures B and BB, and therefore additional funding for these projects would need to be pursued. The additional $173,734 in TDA Article 3 funds will be sufficient to meet the funding gap to construct all four projects. Page 2 of 4