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INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT FOR SHARING OF COSTS OF QUIET ZONE PROJECT DESIGN SERVICES THIS AGREEMENT is made this !— day of t 7LI , 2017 by and between the City of Lafayette, a Colorado home rule municipality ("Lafayette"), and the City of Louisville, a Colorado home rule municipality ("Louisville"), each a "Party" and collectively the "Parties." WHEREAS, the Parties are authorized by § 29-1-203, C.R.S. as amended, to enter into contracts or agreements for the sharing of costs; and WHEREAS, C.R.S. § 29-1-201, et seq., authorizes and encourages local governments to make the most efficient and effective use of their powers and responsibilities by cooperating and contracting with one another to provide any function, service, or facility lawfully authorized to each; and WHEREAS, in accordance with § 29-1-203, C.R.S. as amended, each of the Parties is authorized to enter into this Agreement; and WHEREAS, the Parties desire to establish a quiet zone area along the BNSF rail line from Baseline Road in Lafayette to Pine Street in Louisville, which will include improvements at four highway rail crossings, three of which are in Louisville and a fourth crossing at Baseline Road in Lafayette (the "Project"); and WHEREAS, the Project is intended to consist of the following two phases: (1) a "Design Phase," which will consist of the engineering, design and permitting for the four quiet zone locations and which is intended to be completed in 2017; and (2) a "Construction Phase," which will consist of the construction of the quiet zone improvements and which is intended to be completed in 2018; and WHEREAS, Louisville has applied for and received or will receive a federal Surface Transportation Improvement Program grant of an estimated amount of $1,556,138 (the "Grant") to complete the Design and Construction Phases of the Project and has or will enter into a Grant agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation ("CDOT") for the Project; and WHEREAS, the Grant requires a local match of an estimated amount of $323,483 in matching funds as a condition of receiving the Grant; and WHEREAS, the Parties desire to enter into an IGA to confirm their intent to undertake the Project; to identify the allocation of the cost of the matching funds for the Design Phase of the Project; to establish the process by which such allocation and payment of matching funds will be accomplished; to set forth the agreement by the Parties as to the role of Louisville as the lead agency and executor of the Grant; and to acknowledge the Parties' intent to enter into a future agreement or an amendment to this Agreement to address the Construction Phase of the Project.