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McCabe Enterprises12 Primrose Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02131-1616

Phone: 617 469-9444 Fax 617 469-1765 mccabe@Plan-Do.com

MEMORANDUM

TO: Mary Waldron, Executive Director, Brockton 21st Century Corp.FROM: Kathleen McCabe, AICP, EDPDATE: June 25, 2011SUBJECT: Downtown Streetscape Project Update and Next Steps

Background: The City of Brockton received an earmark for $2,000,000 in the TransportationImprovement (TI) section of the 2005 SAFETEA-LU federal transportation authorization law. Thelegislative purpose of the $2,000,000 is for Design and construct downtown roadway and streetscapeimprovements in Brockton. This earmark is 6 years old. It is earmark 178-MA-214. Congress has beenthreatening to rescind all unobligated earmarks that are older than three years. The City needs to act toobligate these funds by authorizing expenditure of local match and the federal funds upon receipt of acontract. MassDOT-Boston has also expressed serious concern about the potential loss of this earmark.

Match Requirement. All FHWA TI funds have a 20% match requirement, thus creating an overall $2.5million project budget. MassDOT will provide the 20% match for the construction portion, which it will alsoadminister. The City must provide the local non-federal match for design/ engineering, and cover the costof any easements or rights-of-way acquisition. At this time, no easements or rights-of-way areanticipated.

Municipal Match Requirement. The City as authorized by MassDOT solicited Request for Proposals forengineering and design services this spring. The City has made a preliminary contract award to the BSCGroup, subject to final approval by MassDOT and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The BSCGroup has submitted a cost proposal in the amount of $363,648.59. The federal share of this would be$290,919. The local share is $72,730.It is my understanding that the City of Brockton intends to use 40R funds for the local match. These funds

will need to be formally authorized for use and available for the BSC contract.

Funding Contract for Federal Fund Portion. MassDOT, as the administrator of federal transportationfunding in MA, will be issuing the City of Brockton a contract for the expenditure of FHWA-TransportationImprovement funding for design and engineering. This will be a reimbursement contract, meaning that theCity will need to expend funds first, and then seek reimbursement from the state per the contract.

The scope of work for the Downtown Brockton Streetscape and Roadway project and the procurementprocess have been reviewed and approved by MassDOT by both District 5 and Boston. The project iscurrently under review at FHWA. Once it is approved by FHWA, MassDOT will issue and send a contractto the City of Brockton for execution. Upon execution of the contract by the City and MassDOT, the Citycan authorize the design engineer to proceed. The target date for receiving a contract from MassDOT is

early-mid July, but that is dependent upon completion of a timely FHWA review.

Scope of Work: The streetscape design and engineering contract will be focusing on brighter lightingdowntown particularly on Main Street and the railroad underpasses; street repaving/upgrades, sidewalkimprovements, streetscape and plantings downtown. Two illustrative maps highlighting the improvementsare attached.

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