Use supplemental funds to purchase replacement vehicles for lake county community services and laporte transporte

Active Formula Grant Awarded Last action

Award ID
IN2024014
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$8,858,466

Award facts

Assistance listing
20.507 Federal Transit Formula Grants
Completion date 44% complete
Funding
  • $4,824,839.00 Federal
  • $4,033,627.00 Non-federal
Place of performance
Indiana, USA

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Description

Purpose
The purpose of this award is to use supplemental funds to purchase replacement vehicles for lake county community services and laporte transporte. The vehicles being replaced have meet their useful life of four years based on the TAM plan. These funds will provide funding to support the purchase of vehicles noted in other grant requests in-2022-023 and in-2019-029 where insufficient funding were programmed. In addition this award also includes funding to provide operating assistance for continuous service for lake porter and laporte counties residents. Preventative maintenance for vehicles that has been purchased with FTA federal funding. Complementary paratransit for people who are not able to ride the fixed-route services because of a disability oversite services for grant administration and support equipment purchases for software and equipment for scheduling software services.
Activities
The funds will cover all eligible operating expenses such as driver salaries vehicle replacements for transporting passengers preventative maintenance for federally funded FTA vehicles only complementary paratransit for door-to-door transport services grant administration and support equipment for scheduling software services.
Expected outcomes
Funding will permit the purchase of needed replacement vehicles for two subrecipients and provide the seven subrecipients funding to continue providing transit services and services for seniors and individuals with disabilities and permit workers that commute to chicago to work. Those seven subrecipients are east chicago transit city of valparaiso lake county community services opportunity enterprise porter county aging and community services north township dial-a-ride and laporte transporte.
Intended beneficiaries
Funding gives the residents of lake porter and laporte counties a reliable safe and convenient way to receive transit services. Funding will provide continued operating services for our seven subrecipients; east chicago transit city of valparaiso lake county community services opportunity enterprise porter county aging and community services north township dial-a-ride and transporte and provide the metropolitan planning organization program administration for oversite.
Subrecipient activities
This funding will provide continuing services that already exist throughout northwestern indiana counties. IT will provide some of the subrecipients funding for uninterrupted services for persons with disabilities continued operations of running bus services provide maintenance on vehicles for routes and provide metropolitan planning organization program administration for oversite.

Transactions

Action Federal Non-federal Date
Amendment Amendment #1 grant purpose: the purpose of this amendment is to provide additional funding for operating assistance preventative maintenance and complementary… $1,637,717 $1,060,377
Original award $3,187,122 $2,973,250

Quick answers

Who received award IN2024014?

IN2024014 was awarded to Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning C by Federal Transit Administration (Department of Transportation) on September 11, 2024.

How much is award IN2024014 worth?

$8,858,466 has been obligated on IN2024014: $4,824,839 in federal funding and $4,033,627 in non-federal funding.

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