NY-2023-052

Application Purpose: The purpose of this award is to provide the awarded subrecipients operating assistance and capital funding to provide transportation services for people with disabilities and older adults in New York State.

Activities Performed: Funds will be used to cover eligible operating expenses such as driver salaries, fuel, items having a useful life of less than one year, in order to continue service for people with disabilities and older adults. Funds will also be used for eligible capital investment, including the purchase of buses from the NYS Office of General Services (OGS) Adult Bus Contract. Projects to facilitate mobility options and improve accessibility to destinations will be supported by mobility management projects in the NYMTC area.

Expected Outcomes: Funding will permit NYSDOT and its subrecipients to continue to provide service for people with disabilities and older adults.

Intended Beneficiaries: People with disabilities and older adults.

Subrecipient Activities: The following overview of the projects explains how the funding will support the target population. For Project 1, Section 5310 funding will be used to support fifty-eight (55) projects for 38 subrecipients whose services have met all the federal requirements (Category A), and for project administration. Specifically: 37 vehicle projects (95 vehicles), 39 are considered expansion and 56 are replacements ($7.2 million in federal funds), 6 mobility management projects ($5.2 million in federal funds), 11 operating assistance projects ($2.7 million in federal funds), 1 non-vehicle capital project ($0.228 million), state administration funding ($1.6 million) which is within the permitted 10 percent of the grant at 7.2 percent.

For Project 2, Section 5310 funding will be used to support three (3) projects for 3 subrecipients whose services have met all the federal requirements (Category A), and for project administration. Specifically: 3 operating assistance projects ($2.8 million in federal funds), state administration funding ($0.331 million) which is within the permitted 10 percent of the grant at 7.2 percent.

NYSDOT ensures the continuing control of the assets purchased under this grant program through regular communication with the sub-recipients, including semi-annual vehicle and other asset reporting; quarterly mobility management and operating assistance reporting; and through on-site visits and documentation review.

Grants Performance Period: January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2027.

New York Department Of Transportation

20.513 - Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities

FTA Region 2 [DOT - FTA]

FTA Office of Budget and Policy [DOT - FTA]

New York United States

State-Wide

None

Infrastructure $3,142,802 (16%) percent this Project Grant was funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Act.