HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 883 RESOLUTION NO. 883
RESOLUTION OF
City of Saratoga
DESCRIBING PROCESS TO BE USED IN SANTA
CLARA COUNTY TO IMPLEMENT THE FEDERAL
AID URBAN PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 provides Federal
funds for expenditures on the Federal Aid Urban (FAU) System of
Highways, or under certain conditions, for public transportation
projects; and
WHEREAS, the FAU System consists of State highways, city streets
and county roads located within urban areas and urbanized areas of
the State; and
WHEREAS, the State Department of Transportation has required
that each urbanized and urban area must have a cooperative process to
produce programs identifying local projects, transit projects and
regional highway projects, including State highway projects; and
WHEREAS, the cooperative process must involve the cities, the
County, the County Transit District, the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission (MTC), and the State; and
WHEREAS, before Federal aid will be made available for Urban
Systems Projects within the County of Santa Clara, the process for
determining project priorities and developing a five (5) year
program for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1976, must be approved
by MTC with regard to the regional interest, and by the State Department
of Transportation; and
WHEREAS, the County of Santa Clara has been designated as the
Lead Agency for purposes of developing the cooperative process in
Santa Clara County;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: the City of Saratoga
hereby approves the following process and procedures as a Memo of
Understanding for Determining Federal Aid Urban System Project priori-
ties and developing a five (5) year Federal Aid Urban System Program
and requests that they be approved by the State Department of Trans-
portation:
SECTION 1.
A. The California Transportation Commission is requested, in the
process of allocating FAU funds to Santa Clara County to consider
allocation in accordance with the following:
1. Fifty percent (50%) for regional transportation, including
public transportation.
2. The remaining fifty percent (50%) to the County of Santa
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Clara and the City of San Jose in accordance with the following
provisions and conditions:
(a) The County of Santa Clara shall be apportioned a sum
determined by the proportion that the total population of the
unincorporated portions of the County of Santa Clara bears to
the total population of the entire County as a geographical
area; and, in addition, the County of Santa Clara shall, for
the fiscal years 1976-77 and 1977-78 only, receive the sum
that would otherwise be allocated to the Gilroy urban area
for such fiscal years.
(b) The City of San Jose shall be apportioned a sum deter-
mined by the proportion that the total population of the City
of San Jose bears to the total population of the County of
Santa Clara as a geographical area.
(c) The balance remaining, after apportionment of amounts
under (a) and (b), shall be allocated to the City of San Jose
in consideration of the additional administrative costs and
procedures and matching funds which will be required of and
undertaken by the City of San Jose to implement FAU programs,
subject, however, to the further conditions and agreements
required of the City of San Jose set forth hereafter in this
Section.
B. Within 45 days after the City of San Jose receives FAU funds
under Section IA2 (c), the City of San Jose shall allocate and pay
to the cities hereinafter described, sums determined in accordance
with the following:
1. A "base figure" shall be determined by multiply-
ing 70% times the amount which is subject to
allocation as a "remaining balance" under Section
IA2 (c).
2. The city of San Jose shall allocate and pay to
each incorporated city in the County of Santa Clara
(excluding San Jose; and excluding Gilroy for the
fiscal years 1976-77 and 1977-78 only) a sum deter-
mined by that proportion of the "base figure"
which the total population of such city bears to
the total population of all cities within the County
of Santa Clara as a geographical area (excluding
San Jose; and excluding Gilroy for the fiscal years
1976-77 and 1977-78 only).
C. Population shall be determined in the same manner as provided
for census and estimates by the Population Research Unit of the
State Department of Finance; a population determination or estimate
as made shall remain in full force and effect until a subsequent
determination, estimate or revision thereof made thereby.
D. For each yearly period commencing July 1, 1976, allocations
under this Section shall be made in accordance with population so
determined by the Department of Finance for the immediately pre-
ceding January. Appendix A illustrates the distribution percen-
tages as of January 1, 1977.
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E. Each city shall spend funds received under this cooperative
program for the Federal Aid Urban System or legal gas tax fund
purposes.
SECTION II.
The five (5) year FAU program will be developed by a com-
mittee which includes a representative from the County of Santa
Clara, the City of San Jose, CALTRANS and MTC.
A. The five (5) year program may include projects submitted
by CALTRANS, the County Transit District, the City of San Jose and
County of Santa Clara.
B. The following distribution of FAU funds will be used as a
guideline in the development of the five (5) year FAU program:
Regional Transportation 50%
(including public transportation)
City of San Jose Projects 44.7%
County of Santa Clara Projects 5.3~
C. The following criteria will be used in evaluating projects and
developing a five (5) year program:
(1) State of readiness (status of plans, specifications,
estimate, EIR, approvals, agreements, etc.).
(2) Benefit to public transportation system.
(3) Transportation corridor benefit.
(4) Benefit to total transportation capacity (ability to
handle person trips per day).
(5) Benefit to other segments of the regional and local
highway system.
(6) Benefit to accident history.
(7) Community and environmental consideration.
The cities and county government, having developed the five (5) year
program of projects for FAU funding contained in the current regional
transportation plan of MTC, hereby acknowledge that all projects pro-
grammed for the next succeeding fiscal year and contained therein are
of equal merit and that therefore it is appropriate that the funding
of those projects should be on the allocation basis stated herein.
D. The five (5) year FAU Program will be approved by the Council
of the City of San Jose and the County Board of Supervisors. The County
Transportation Commission will provide an adivsory recommendation on the
public transportation projects in the FAU Program. The five (5) year
FAU Program shall be then transmitted by March 1 of each year to the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission for review and approval with regard
to the regional interest and to the State Director of Transportation for
approval.
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E. Said five (5) year program shall be reviewed and revised each
year to include additional projects as submitted by eligible agencies
and revisions shall be approved as provided in Section IID.
F. By written notice filed with the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission and County of Santa Clara on or before January 15 of any
calendar year commencing in 1979, the allocation process in Section I
may become inoperative at the election of either the City of San Jose
or a majority of all cities (other than San Jose) who represent a ma-
jority of the population of such cities, as to FAU funds subject to
apportionment or allocation for periods commencing immediately subse-
quent to the first day of July thereafter.
SECTION III.
The above described process will be reviewed and apprcved in the
following manner:
A. The process will be referred to each city's legislative body
and must be approved by:
(1) The majority of cities in the County eligible for the
FAU program.
(2) Cities in the County representing the the majority of the
eligible population.
(3) Cities in the County with over 200,000 population (the
City of San Jose).
B. Once the requirements defined in Section IIIA above are satis-
fied, the process shall be submitted to the County Board of Supervisors
for approval.
C. Once approved by the Board of Supervisors, the process shall
then be transmitted to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for
approval with regard to the regional interest and to the Director of
the State Department of Transportation.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Saratoga at a regular meeting held on the
1st day of November, 1978, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Kalb, Maffeon], Cal|on, Kraus & Cm'r
NOES: None'
ABSENT: None .....
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