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 5/21/2012

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 Federal Funding 201 Webinar

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Leffler, CookieNo presence information (5/21/2012 9:30 AM):

FEDERAL FUNDING 201
How Safe Routes to School Projects Actually Get Built:
     An Overview of Obligation and Obligation Authority/Limitations

THURSDAY, June 7, 2012
2-3pm eastern/1-2pm central/12-1pm mountain/11am-12pm pacific

REGISTER HERE: https://saferoutespartnership.ilinc.com/register/mtjhtbt
 
Our May webinar, Federal Funding 101, covered the basics of the complex
federal funding process. On June 7, 2012, we will discuss the final phase
of federal funding, obligation. Obligation is the final stage of the
federal regulatory process; once a project or program is obligated, it is
ready to begin, but not before. It can take a long time to get Safe Routes
to School and Transportation Enhancements projects and programs to this
point: learn how the process works, and what you can do to help your state
program and local applicants to get through this complex process. And
learn about obligation authority/limitations, or how and why some of the
federal funds may not even be made available to communities in your state.

Find out the answers to these and other questions, and ask your own!

Speakers:

Darren Flusche, policy director, League of American Bicyclists,
Advocacy Advance program

Robert Ping, technical assistance director, Safe Routes
to School National Partnership

Dawn Foster, SRTS coordinator, California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans )


Highlights include:
  • How federal funding gets officially 'signed off' on, or obligated
     
  • How and why states decide how much federal money to make
    available to local communities
     
  • How the California Safe Routes to School program manages to
    obligate funding each year.
     
  • How advocates at the state and local level can help expedite the
    process.
     
  • A Q&A session via a chat function with webinar attendees.
     
This webinar is the second in a series of monthly webinars on topics
related to Safe Routes to School and other policy and program initiatives
that can increase walking and bicycling to school and in daily life.​

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