SUBJECT:
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Approval of a resolution authorizing the President & CEO, or her designee, to grant an approximately 0.334-acre (1,453 square-foot) electric utility easement to the City of Austin across CapMetro-owned property located at 10612 Delta Drive, Austin, Texas for the construction of electric distribution and electrical telecommunications lines and systems.
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FISCAL IMPACT:
This action has no fiscal impact.
STRATEGIC PLAN:
Strategic Goal Alignment:
☐ 1. Customer ☒ 2. Community
☐ 3. Workforce ☒ 4. Organizational Effectiveness
Strategic Objectives:
☐ 1.1 Safe & Reliable Service ☐1.2 High Quality Customer Experience ☐ 1.3 Accessible System
☐ 2.1 Support Sustainable Regional Growth ☐ 2.2 Become a Carbon Neutral Agency
☒ 2.3 Responsive to Community and Customer Needs ☒ 2.4 Regional Leader in Transit Planning
☐ 3.1 Diversity of Staff ☐ 3.2 Employer of Choice ☐ 3.3 Expand Highly Skilled Workforce
☒ 4.1 Fiscally Responsible and Transparent ☐ 4.2 Culture of Safety ☐ 4.3 State of Good Repair
EXPLANATION OF STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT: This conveyance will provide CapMetro infrastructure capabilities for McKalla Station.
BUSINESS CASE: Conveyance of the electrical easement to the City of Austin, Austin Energy will allow electrical power to McKalla Station.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: This item was presented and recommended for approval by the Operations, Planning and Safety Committee on September 13, 2023.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: CapMetro desires to convey an electrical easement to the City, which will enable Austin Energy to provide infrastructure capabilities for McKalla Station. The McKalla Station project is an essential part of addressing the transportation and mobility needs of the Austin community, thereby increasing people’s access to jobs, services, and entertainment in a reliable, safe, and convenient manner. As a condition of receiving service, Austin Energy requires all customers to grant the City an easement to install and operate any electrical infrastructure, and state law requires Board approval before CapMetro may grant anyone an easement across its property.
DBE/SBE PARTICIPATION: Does not apply.
PROCUREMENT: Does not apply.
RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT: Capital Construction and Engineering Design (CCED)
RESOLUTION
OF THE
CAPITAL METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TRAVIS
AI-2023-961
WHEREAS, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) has undertaken the improvement of its public MetroRail Red Line regional rail service that operates from downtown Austin through Central and Northwest Austin as well as the city of Leander to provide higher frequency service and increased mobility and transit options for the North Burnet neighborhood and surrounding portions of its service area, and said improvements include adding the Broadmoor and McKalla Stations; and
WHEREAS, Cap Metro has determined there is a need to provide improved connectivity and increased platform capacity for higher ridership to housing, employment and activities in the North Burnet area, including, but not limited to events at the Q2 Stadium near Delta Drive on the MetroRail Red Line between Braker Lane and Rutland Drive, and provide connection to bicycle and pedestrian paths and space for future MetroBike expansion by developing and constructing the McKalla Station as a new regional rail transit station as part of the Project Connect System Plan (the “Project”); and
WHEREAS, CapMetro has determined that the conveyance of an approximately 0.334-acre (1,453 square-foot) electric utility easement to the City of Austin across property owned by CapMetro and located at 10612 Delta Drive, Austin, Texas, as more particularly described and shown in Exhibit “A,” being attached hereto and incorporated herein for all purposes (the “Property”), is necessary to advance and achieve the development and construction of the Project; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors that the President & CEO, or her designee, is authorized to grant an approximately 0.334-acre (1,453 square-foot) electric utility easement to the City of Austin across CapMetro-owned property located at 10612 Delta Drive, Austin, Texas for the construction of electric distribution and electrical telecommunications lines and systems.
____________________ Date: ____________________
Secretary of the Board
Becki Ross