This is an FFY 2020 section 5307 cares act application in the amount of $476334 this application utilizes cares act funding to help respond to and recover from the covid-19 pandemic

The Municipality of Hatillo, Puerto Rico received a $952,668 project grant award from the Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration under the Federal Transit Formula Grants (CFDA 20.507) program. The grant will fund operational and preventative maintenance activities for the municipality's public transit system from August 2022 through March 2028. Specifically, $462,880 will support salaries and benefits for transit drivers and related staff, as well as purchases of personal protective equipment, sanitizing supplies, and fuel needed to operate vehicles through September 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. An additional $13,454 will be used for cleaning and disinfecting transit terminals and vehicles between February 2020 and September 2022. The funding will allow the municipality to continue providing critical public transportation services to residents while protecting both employees and riders from COVID-19.

Activities

1. Operational assistance with section 5307 cares act funds in the amount of $462880. All transit service is directly operated by the municipality with municipal employees. Funds will cover salaries and payroll taxes for six drivers one supervisor one paratransit reservations agent one administrative assistant and one accountant (50%). Purchase of PPE like masks gloves personal sanitizing supplies and digital thermometers among other equipment for employees and passengers. The requested amount will also include expected expenses of gasoline and diesel for the fleet of the transportation program for the period from february 1 2020 to september 30 2021. 2. Preventive maintenance in the form of cleaning supplies terminal and vehicles disinfection with section 5307 cares act funds in the amount of $13454. Labor is going to be conducted by a municipal janitor and the drivers. Maintenance will be provided from february 1 2020 to september 30 2022.no items over $5000 are purchased with these funds.

Expected outcomes

This cares award will permit continuing operation of the transit system during the threat of the covid 19 pandemic.

Intended beneficiaries

The main beneficiaries of this grant will be the transit drivers and related staff as well as transit riders who will be protected from covid 19.subrecipient activities; there are no subrecipients. The municipality of hatillo will follow all 3RD party procurement policies as defined in C4220.1F (third party contracting guidance). The municipality of hatillo will ensure contractors procured will not be on the FTA suspension and debarment list. No items over $5000 are purchased with these funds. The operational expenses requested in this application were determined by the municipality of hatillo based on actual payroll costs purchase costs of PPE cleaning supplies and disinfectants. The municipality of hatillo understands that the expenses requested in this application are subject to review for their reasonableness as part of the agencys next triennial/state management reviewthe total funds allocated to the municipality of hatillo are $476334. The split letter dated may 05/15/2020 is attached in trams. Those funds are fully requested in this application. There is no remaining balance of the apportioned funds to be requested on future applications. The municipality of hatillo agrees that if IT receives federal funding from the federal emergency management agency (FEMA) or through a pass-through entity through the robert t. Stafford disaster relief and emergency assistance act a different federal agency or insurance proceeds for any portion of a project activity approved for FTA funding under this grant agreement IT will provide written notification to FTA and reimburse FTA for any federal share that duplicates funding provided by FEMA another federal agency or an insurance company.no transit related funding has been applied for nor received from FEMA or any other federal agency. The municipality of hatillo certifies that IT and its subrecipients and contractors that are providers of public transportation have not furloughed any employees since march 27 2020 (the enactment date of the cares act).per the cares act the projects in this application are not required to be programmed in the long-range transportation plan or statewide transportation improvement program.