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Project Funding:FUNDING THE MARKHAM RAVINE NATURE AREA (MRNA) PROJECT:Funding for the environmental documentation, planning, and construction of the Markham Ravine Nature Area Project will come from a number of different sources, in four stages, over the next two years. It is necessary for the Lincoln City Council to approve all requests for project development funding and implementation as it progresses through each stage. Stage 1Funding, in the amount of $188,037.00, was approved by the Lincoln City Council on April 13th, 2004, per Resolution No. 2004-77. These funds derived from the Lincoln Capital Improvement Project (CIP), fiscal year (FY) 2003-04 budget. These funds were awarded to Foothill Associates to accomplish a set of specific contracted scope of work activities throughout the next twenty four months, including design, engineering, environmental documentation and permitting. Documentation will include the performance of special studies required as part of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Additional funding in the amount of $97,919, was approved by the Lincoln City Council on April 26th, 2005, per Resolution No. 2005-095. These funds amended the initial Consultant Services Agreement with Foothill Associates expanding their scope of work to include the Foskett Ranch area. The obtaining of permits for the actual implementation of this Markham Ravine Nature Area Project, including enhancement of the wetlands habitats and construction of a multi-use trail system, will include applications being submitted and approved by the following agencies:
Based upon these Stage 1 activities and study findings, Foothill Associates will then assist the City and the Markham Ravine Neighborhood Committee in identifying the appropriate potential funding resources for actually constructing the permitted enhanced wetlands habitat and the multi-use trail system, as described in Stage 4 below. Stage 2Funding, in the amount of $20,600.00 was approved on April 13th, 2004, by the Lincoln City Council, for completion of the environmental documentation necessary to finalize the Markham Park expansion architectural plans. These funds were derived from the Lincoln FY 2003-04 PFE Parks Fund, and transferred to the Lincoln CIP Fund. These funds were also awarded to Foothill Associates. The revised park expansion architectural plans were completed and presented to the City Council for final approval in June, 2004. Stage 3Release of the funding for the actual construction of the expanded Markham Park was approved by the City Council in June of 2004. The Park expansion funds came out of the Lincoln FY 2003-04 PFE Parks Fund. These funds were already set aside during the 2003 City Council budget deliberations. The expansion of Markham Park has actually been on the City’s “to do” list for nine years. Bidding for the construction contract commenced in July, 2004. Construction commenced in August. Anticipated completion of the expanded Markham Park will be by June, 2005. Foothill Associates is responsible for overseeing and monitoring the bidding, contract awarding and the Park expansion construction process. Stage 4Funding procurement and actual implementation of the enhancement of the Markham Ravine wetlands habitat, and construction of the Markham Ravine Nature Area multi-use trail system, will be based upon the specific recommendations of Foothill Associates upon their completion of the Stage 1 design, documentation and permitting activities. At this time the projected Stage 4 enhancement and construction activities would likely occur in three phases, starting and hopefully completing within FY 2005-06. Each of the three phases will require searching for and obtaining additional funding from outside of the Lincoln City financial resources. Most of the outside funding resources will usually require that Lincoln itself would appropriate a percentage of the total amount being requested from their own budgeted funds. The Lincoln City funds will derive from their own PDF budgeted allocations. The Markham Ravine Neighborhood Committee has already initiated an exploration of outside grant funding resources. Please refer to the web links below for detailed information related to potential outside funding sources. These listed funding sources represent just a start to this critical stage of research regarding future Markham Ravine Nature Area Project funding procurement. The three proposed phases of the project’s Stage 4 enhancement and construction would involve the activities listed below. Many of these activities were first identified and recommended by the Markham Ravine Neighborhood Committee during our initial two year long organizing efforts. More specific delineation of these phase activities were presented within the Foothill Associates' written proposal submitted for consideration of Stage 1 City funding. The three phases of project implementation and construction were then spelled out to the Lincoln City Council by city staff within an April, 2004 “Staff Report Memorandum Authorizing an Agreement with Foothill Associates.” The Phase 1 activities have now been expanded to include the Foskett Ranch area of Markham Ravine. The revised activities are spelled out in an April 26th, 2005 Staff Report Memorandum. Phase 1:Markham Ravine, east of Teal Hollow Drive (Map), including the Foskett Ranch Area
Phase 2:Markham Ravine, west
of Teal Hollow Drive and north of Nicolaus Road, including Clay
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