6145840 Resolution 21-582, First Amendment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Multi-Jurisdictional Capital Funding Agreement Approval Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-582

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

July 12, 2016        

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to approve the First Amendment to the Capital Funding Agreement between the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, Arlington County, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, the City of Alexandria, Virginia, the City of Fairfax, Virginia, and the City of Falls Church, Virginia to provide additional capital funding for a one-year extension to a capital improvement program for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority transit system, from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “First Amendment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Multi-Jurisdictional Capital Funding Agreement Approval Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a)  There exists an immediate need to approve the First Amendment to the Capital Funding Agreement between the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (“WMATA”), the State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, Arlington County, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, the City of Alexandria, Virginia, the City of Fairfax, Virginia, and the City of Falls Church, Virginia (“CFA”) to provide additional capital funding for a one-year extension to a capital improvement program for the WMATA transit system, from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017.

(b)  On July 1, 2010, the Office of Contracting and Procurement, on behalf of the District Department of Transportation, executed the multiyear CFA to provide capital funding for a capital improvement program from July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2016, in the ceiling amount of $397,314,000. 

(c)  A first amendment is now necessary to extend the CFA to June 30, 2017, and to increase the District of Columbia’s allocated contribution amount for WMATA Fiscal Year 2017 by $92.1 million for a total District ceiling amount under the CFA of $489,414,000.

(d)  Council approval is necessary because these modifications increase the contract by more than $1 million during a 12-month period.

 (e)  Approval is necessary to allow the continuation of these vital improvements.  Without Council approval, WMATA cannot be paid for services provided in excess of $1 million for the contract period July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017.

 

Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the First Amendment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Multi-Jurisdictional Capital Funding Agreement Emergency Approval Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.