PART 5. California Smart City Challenge Grant Program
75250.
The California Smart City Challenge Grant Program is hereby established to enable municipalities to compete for grant funding for emerging transportation technologies to serve their transportation system needs.75251.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the program demonstrate how advanced data and intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies and applications can be used to meet all of the following program goals:(a) Reduce congestion.
(b) Keep travelers safe.
(c) Establish environmental and climate change goals.
(d) Enhance mobility.
(e) Connect underserved communities.
(f) Support economic vitality.
(g) Attract private investment.
(h) Spur innovation.
75252.
(a) The California Transportation Commission, in consultation with the California Smart City Challenge Workgroup formed pursuant to Section 75253, shall develop guidelines for the program and may revise them as necessary. The commission shall adopt the guidelines following at least two public hearings.(b) The guidelines shall include project selection criteria and define the types of projects eligible for funding through the program. The guidelines shall require that an eligible project serve one or more of the goals described in Section 75251 and may favor a project that serves more than one of those goals.
(c) The guidelines shall not be subject to the requirements of the
Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
75253.
The California Transportation Commission shall form the California Smart City Challenge Workgroup to provide the commission with guidance on program matters including, but not limited to, the development of and subsequent revisions to the guidelines developed pursuant to Section 75252, schedules and procedures, project selection criteria, performance measures, and evaluations. The workgroup may include, but shall not be limited to, representatives of local governmental agencies, local transportation organizations, and the University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies.75254.
Implementation of this part is contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for purposes of the California Smart City Challenge Grant Program.