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AGENDA TITLE: Receive Report Regarding Communication Supporting the TradePort California Project
MEETING DATE: May 17, 2023
PREPARED BY: City Clerk
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Receive report regarding communication supporting the TradePort
California Project.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The City was asked to provide a letter of support to the U.S. Department
of Transportation for the TradePort California project. The project consists
of a 425 -mile -long corridor stretching from the Los Angeles area, through
the Central Valley, to the Sacramento and Bay Area Regions.
The letter outlines the participation of private and public agencies in the project, the short-term and long-term
goals and benefits, and impacts of the project on the State's infrastructure, employment market, and trade
market.
Mayor Pro Tempore Craig received a presentation on this project during a San Joaquin Council of
Governments policy conference.
Letters were due by Friday, May 12, 2023, and due to this urgency, Mayor Hothi signed the letter of support on
Tuesday, May 9. A copy of the letter is attached to this report.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not Applicable
FUNDING AVAILABLE: Not Applicable
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Olivia Nashed
City Clerk
APPROVED: 771 (May 9,202316:1`
Stephen Schwabauer, City Manager
CITY COUNCIL
Mikey Hothi, Mayor
Lisa Craig, Mayor Pro Tempore
Cameron Bregman
Alan Nakanishi
Ramon Yepez
May 8, 2023
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
US Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington DC 20590
Dear Secretary Buttigieg,
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Stephen Schwabauer
City Manager
Olivia Nashed
City Clerk
Janice D. Magdich
City Attorney
City of Lodi strongly supports the TradePort California project and the proposal for 2nd round designation
as a USDoT Regional Infrastructure Accelerator project. This proposal is submitted by a unique
partnership structure that is comprised of a strategic combination of public and private entities working
together to develop a nationally strategic project over a 425 -mile -long corridor stretching from the
seaports complex in Los Angeles through the entire Central Valley and including the Sacramento and Bay
Area regions.
Direct participants to this proposal include the submitting public entity, the Fresno Council of Governments
who are representing eight councils of governments in the TradePort California Market Area and their
constituent fourteen counties, alongside three air quality districts (South Coast, San Joaquin Valley, and
Sacramento), seaports (Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Stockton) and the State of California. A spectrum of
private companies are supporting the project including all of the major US heavy truck manufacturers,
truck fleet operators, large -volume beneficial cargo owners, utility companies and clean energy
investors/producers. Alongside the Fresno Council of Governments, Global Logistics Development
Partners continues to perform the role of project development manager alongside a highly experienced
TradePort California Development Team comprised of experts in the areas of P3/legal structures,
planning/engineering, environmental, railroad, and community engagement. This system of partners in
both the public and private sectors provides an extraordinarily strong foundation from which to deliver a
transformational project that is of national and super -regional consequence.
TradePort California's partners strongly believe that designation as a 1St round USDOT Regional
Infrastructure Accelerator significantly advanced the RIA delivery structure along with critical work
around physical and financial planning. This accelerated progress was enabled by the ongoing and regular
partnership, advice and input from the Build America Bureau. The project is now well-positioned to evolve
a structured delivery partnership that significantly leverages private investment alongside strategic public
investment.
With the direct support of the USDOT, Build America Bureau and the Regional Infrastructure Accelerator
program, a broad system of partners has worked together to successfully stand-up a nationally significant
state-of-the-art clean energy -logistics -industrial development project. This structured collaboration model
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can serve as a template for large-scale, systemic public private partnerships that help to solve national
challenges. This project represents an integrated approach to support increased supply chain efficiency,
clean energy equipment adoption, road safety, rural development, and economic competitiveness.
Developed as a systemic extension of the global seaports complex in Los Angeles, the project has been
shaped to represent a high -efficiency element of a modern national logistics system that connects our
busiest seaports with key inland supply chain markets. California is an extraordinarily large consumption
and production market and also serves as the nation's prime trade gateway. Increased throughput
efficiency through the nation's busiest seaports in California will have tremendous cascading national
supply chain implications.
TradePort California will be comprised of a series of strategic purpose-built TradePort hubs that will
function as an integrated logistics and investment system. The project is a quadrimodal project with a
purpose-built logistics asset that increases seamless connections between ocean, rail, highway, and air
transportation. The TradePort California investment plan integrates the development of modern logistics
infrastructure and clean energy technologies, and a myriad of government -business partnerships into a
strategic supply chain hub.
The project will directly address a range of national, state and regional public objectives, including large-
scale job creation especially in rural areas, deployment of clean energy transportation vehicles, congestion
relief for regional roadways, increased road safety, and increased overall supply chain efficiency.
The TradePort California Market Area consists of an array of urban and rural communities.
Communities in this area have been plagued for many years by high levels of unemployment and poverty
and have largely not participated in the benefits associated with global trade. TradePort California will
create a new economic ecosystem that creates dramatic improvements for high-quality jobs and new
revenues for struggling local governments. The project will produce dramatic social justice advancements
by its specific and dedicated focus on environmentally sustainable operations, the creation of new -to -the -
region career paths, and its clear focus on purpose-built investment in a master -planned environment.
We strongly believe that TradePort California project can tremendously benefit from the continued
partnership with the Build America Bureau and the US Department of Transportation by supporting
significant private investment via the creation a pipeline of clean energy, logistics and industrial
development projects, some of which will utilize Build America's financing programs. The use of these
programs will be fundamental to the project's success.
City of Lodi appreciates the Build America Bureau's and the US Department of Transportation's favorable
consideration of this project and is very pleased to submit this letter of support.
Sincerely,
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Mikey Hothi
Mayor