Construction Technical Assistance
For the 2024-2025 Safe Routes to School Construction (SRTS) Grant Solicitation, the following agencies were selected to receive additional technical services through the Project Identification Program. This program consists of three services: planning assistance, additional engineering assistance, and surface treatment projects.
Planning Assistance Program
- City of Coos Bay
- City of Eugene
- Harrisburg School District
- City of Amity
- City of Drain
- Town of Bonanza
- Hood River School District
- City of Central Point
- Burns Paiute Tribe (completion of process started in 2023)
Engineering Assistance Program
- Klamath Falls: Old Fort Road/Laguna sidewalk & intersection improvements
- Medford: Spring Street bikeway & sidewalk
- Burns Paiute Tribe: Radar Base Road sidewalk
- Days Creek: Tiller Trail Hwy pedestrian path
- Hood River County (Parkdale School) pedestrian path & crossing
Surface Treatment Program
No Surface Treatment services were awarded in this cycle.
Construction Program Overview
- $15 million in SRTS Construction funds are allocated annually to three programs:
- Competitive Program: 87.5%
- Rapid Response Program: 10%
- Project Identification Program: 2.5%
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Other Construction Grant Opportunities: learn more about the Competitive Construction Grants and Rapid Response Construction Grants.
ELIGIBLE ENTITIES:
For Planning Assistance and Engineering Assistance Grants: school districts, tribes, cities, counties, transit districts, and other road authorities may apply.
For Surface Treatment Grant: tribes, cities, counties, transit districts, and other road authorities may apply. School districts are not eligible.
The 2024 Construction Technical Assistance cycle included expanded offerings. As in previous cycles, communities can apply for Planning Assistance (previously known as the Project Identification Program, or PIP). Those who have already gone through that process and completed SRTS Plans—or the equivalent—can now apply for additional technical assistance through the Engineering Assistance or Surface Treatments programs.
Visual aid of the technical assistance options.
Timeline:
- These applications are now closed. Sign up to receive grant program updates, including the announcements of future grant solicitations.
Application Process:
- Step 1: read the guidelines and watch the informational webinar (Correction to the webinar: low-income metric will be using Title1A data and not Free & Reduced Lunch data. Current Free & Reduced Lunch Percentages still include Free & Reduced Lunch for All percentages and do not accurately reflect income levels. ODOT staff have updated the Applicant Resource Tool with this low-income information.).
- Step 2: review the scoring matrices and fill out online application (see above for respective grant)
- Application signatures
- School & road authority letter of support templates (please select the appropriate template for the program you are applying to)
- Planning Assistance Grant
- Engineering Assistance Grant
- Surface Treatments Grant
Resources:
- Sign up to receive grant program updates
- Key design manuals
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- FHWA bicycle and pedestrian guide
- Small town and rural multi-modal design guide
- ODOT bicycle and pedestrian guide
- ODOT pedestrian and bike program
- ODOT blueprint for urban design
- AASHTO bicycle and pedestrian guides (for purchase)
- NACTO urban bikeway design
- Pedestrian safety guide and countermeasure selection system and tool
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- View the applicant map tool with school demographics (This data is pulled from specific ODE sources and not exhaustive of all Oregon schools. Please refer to your school district for any demographics missing on this map.)
- Past funded projects map
- SRTS advisory committee meetings
- Regional support contacts (on right side of page)
If you have additional questions, please contact Construction Program Manager, Xao Posadas, xao.posadas@odot.oregon.gov.