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RESOLUTION 21-05
A RESOLUTION OF THE NORTHWESTERN INDIANA REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION TO ADOPT AMENDMENT #4 2021-2022 UNIFIED PLANNING WORK PROGRAM 2022 Update
FOR LAKE, PORTER, AND LAPORTE COUNTIES, INDIANA
April 15, 2021
WHEREAS, the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission, hereafter referred to as "the Commission," being designated as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Lake, Porter, and LaPorte County area, has established a comprehensive, cooperative, and continuing transportation planning process to develop the FY 2021 - 2022 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP); and
WHEREAS, the preparation of a UPWP is a necessary and required part of the metropolitan area transportation planning process as specified in 23 CFR 450.308; and by its State statutory authority, the Commission is charged with regional planning responsibility for the environment, economic development, and transportation; and
WHEREAS, the work tasks and budgets described within the Commission's UPWP are in conjunction with the programs and planning emphasis areas of the Federal Highway and Transit Administrations, and significant planning projects in the region by other agencies; and
WHEREAS, federal transportation fund expenses contracted to NIRPC must be adopted into the current UPWP in order to be reimbursed; and
WHEREAS, the PL/5307 federal funding allocation for the Commission for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2022 was revised to total one million, four hundred and twenty eight thousand, eight hundred and ten dollars ($1,428,810); and
WHEREAS, the Technical Planning Committee has recommended that the Commission approve the content of UPWP 2021-2022 Amendment #4, 2022 Update;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission hereby adopts the FY 2021 - 2022 UPWP Amendment #4, 2022 Update and the Commission is authorized to enter into such agreements and contracts as may be required with the funding and administrative agencies for the execution of this UPWP.
Duly adopted by the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission on this fifteenth day of April, 2021. 4
George H.Topoll Chairperson
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