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Comprehensive Transportation Funding Programs — 2018 <br />Projects O and Project P — Call for Projects Programming <br />Recommendations <br />Background <br />Page 2 <br />The Regional Capacity Program (RCP), Project 0, is the Measure M2 (M2) <br />competitive funding program through which the Orange County <br />Transportation Authority (OCTA) supports streets and roads capital projects. <br />The Regional Traffic Signal Synchronization Program (RTSSP), Project P, <br />is the M2 competitive program which provides funding for signal synchronization <br />projects. Both programs are included in the Comprehensive Transportation <br />Funding Programs (CTFP). The CTFP allocates funds through a competitive call <br />for projects (call) based on a common set of guidelines and scoring criteria that <br />are developed in collaboration with the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), <br />which includes representatives from all 35 local jurisdictions, and is approved by <br />the OCTA Board of Directors (Board). The CTFP may include state and federal <br />sources as well, and in this case it includes recently approved SB 1 (Chapter 5, <br />Statutes of 2017) Local Partnership Program (LPP) funds to support RTSSP <br />projects. <br />On August 14, 2017, the Board authorized staff to issue the current call making <br />available $40 million, with $32 million identified for RCP projects and $8 million <br />identified for RTSSP projects. <br />Discussion <br />RCP <br />The CTFP allocates funds through a competitive process using a common set of <br />guidelines and scoring criteria. The guidelines for the 2018 call were approved <br />by the Board on August 14, 2017. The guidelines establish a two-tiered funding <br />approach to prioritize high scoring RCP projects, with funding availability for both <br />small (less than $5 million) and large (greater than $5 million) projects. <br />The first tier is for projects scoring 50 points or higher, and the second tier is for <br />projects scoring below 50 points. Within Tier 1, two categories were established <br />as shown below: <br />20B-7 <br />Tier 1 Category 1 <br />Tier 1 Category 2 <br />Total Funds <br />Projects requesting <br />Projects requesting <br />Available <br /><$5 million <br />>$5 million <br />60% <br />40% <br />$32 million <br />$19.2 million <br />$12.8 million <br />20B-7 <br />