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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 09182001 - C.18 'TO: .• BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Contra FROM: TRANSPORTATION, WATER AND INFRASTRUCTURE costa COMMITTEE (SUPERVISOR DONNA GERBER, CHAIR) """ County DATE: SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 SUBJECT: ADOPT POSITION OF SUPPORT FOR THE ACA 4 BALLOT MEASURE REGARDING TRANSPORTATION FUNDING SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPT a position of support for the March 2002 ballot measure developed through Assembly Constitutional Amendment 4, regarding funding for transportation. FISCAL IMPACT NONE to the General Fund. If approved by voters on the March 2002 ballot, ACA 4 will make permanent an existing six-year dedication of funds that brings the County approximately $1 million annually for road maintenance. BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS ACA 4 will appear on the March 2002 ballot. The measure will give permanent status to a six-year transportation funding program enacted by the Legislature two years ago through AB 2928 (Torlakson, D-Antioch). The program dedicates the state's share of the sales tax . on gasoline for transportation purposes. This revenue is placed in the state's Transportation Investment Fund, instead of going into the General Fund as was historically the case. The revenue is split in the following ways each year: CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S): Supervis 2aonna Gerber, Chair S ervisor John Gioia ACTION OF BOARD ON September 18, 2001 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED xx OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE x_x UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ---- ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE ABSENT: ABSTAIN: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. Contact: John Greitzer (925/335-1201) cc: Community Development Department (CDD) ATTESTED September 18, 2001 CAO, S. Hoffman JOHN SWEETEN, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR DEPUTY SAtransportation\board order aca 4.doc ADOPT POSITION OF SUPPORT FOR THE ACA 4 BALLOT MEASURE REGARDING TRANSPORTATION FUNDING SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 Page 2 BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS CONTINUED • 40 percent to fund the transportation capital improvement projects in the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP); • 20 percent is allocated to the State's Public Transit Account to fund public transit services, • 20 percent for city street and highway maintenance; and • 20 percent for county street and highway maintenance. Local uses of revenue The first year of this program brought $5.1 million to Contra Costa County for road maintenance in the unincorporated areas. The County anticipates receiving about$1.1 million annually for road maintenance and reconstruction for the remaining five years of the program. The ballot measure next March (ACA 4) would make this funding program permanent, rather than ending after 2006 under the existing legislation. The measure makes no change to the existing program, other than making it permanent. Like the existing law, ACA 4 will allow the dedication of these funds for transportation to be suspended for one year, if the Governor and two thirds of the Legislature agree it would have a significant negative effect on the state's fiscal health in any given year. In that case, the funds would be directed to the state's General Fund for that year. ACA 4 doesn't include a specific list of transportation projects. Rather, it will be used to help deliver projects in the STIP and provide categorical funding for public transit and roadway maintenance. ACA 4 in the context of County transportation needs The Transportation, Water and Infrastructure Committee believes that two of the County's highest transportation priorities are road maintenance and operating funds for public transit service to help reduce traffic congestion. The Committee recommends a position of support for ACA 4 because it will permanently dedicate much-needed revenue for County road maintenance. However, if the program were being created anew, the Committee would suggest that public transit receive a higher percentage than the 20 percent it receives in the existing program and the ballot measure. It is often the lack of operating funds that prevents transit agencies from expanding service to meet community needs and relieve congestion. Exhibit A is the full text of ACA 4. EXHIBIT A Display Text By Bill NumberSTATE and FEDERAL LEGISLATIONSTATE and FEDERAL California 2001-02 Regular Session 2001 CA ACA 4 Chaptered 0.7/26/2001 Murray - REZOLUTION CHAPTER 87 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 26, 2001 ADOPTED IN ASSEM13LY JULY 23, 2001 ADOPTED IN SENATE JULY 22, 2001 AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 21, 2001 AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 20, 2001 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 18, 2001 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Dutra and Longvi.11e (Principal coauthors: Senators Murray and Karnette) (Coauthors: Senators Alarcon, Alpert, Costa., Figueroa, and Machado) FEBRUARY 22, 2001 Assembly Constitutional Amendment Fo. 4--A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Article XTXB thereto, relating to transportation. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DTGEST ACA 4, Dutra. 'Transportation funding: sales and use tax revenues. The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross .receipts from the sale in this state of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal. property. That law requires revenues derived from those taxes to be deposited in the Retail Sales Tax Fund. Existing law requires the balance of that fund remaining after various specified allocations to be allocated to the General Fund. This measure would, for the 2003-04 fiscal. year and each fiscal year thereafter., require all moneys that are collected during the fiscal year under the Sales and Use Tax Law, with respect to the sale or use of motor vehicle fuel, and that are required to be transferred to the General Fund pursuant to that law, to instead be transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund. This measure would, for the 2003-04 to 2007-08 fiscal years, inclusive, require, moneys in that fund to be allocated .for transportation purposes as provided in a specified statute. This measure would, for the 2008-09 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, require moneys in the fund to be allocated only for transportation purposes specified by this measure, and would specify the allowable percentage amount to be allocated for each specified transportation purpose. This measure would allow the Legislature to suspend or modify these requirements under certain circumstances, if the act so providing is approved by 2/3 of the entire membership of each house of the Legislature. WHEREAS, California's continuing economic prosperity and quality of life depend, in no small part, upon an expansive and efficient .transportation system; and WHEREAS, The need to maintain, expand, and improve California's multimodal transportation system increases as California continues to grow; and 1 WHEREAS, Public investment in transportation has failed to keep pace with California's growth, and additional fiscal resources are needed simply to maintain, much less expand, California's transportation system; and WHEREAS, The failure to address California 's transportation funding needs will drain economic vitality, compromise public .safety, and erode quality of life; and WHEREAS, It is now necessary to address California's transportation problems by providing additional state funding, in a manner that protects existing constitutional guarantees set forth in Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, for the funding of public education; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California at its 2.001-02 Regular_ Session commencing on the fourth day of December 2000, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of the State of. California that the Constitution of. the State be amended by adding Article XIXB thereto, to read: AR'T'ICLE XIXB MO'T'OR VEHICLE FUEL SALES TAX REVENUES AND TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT FUNDING SECTION 1. (a) For the 2.003-04 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, all moneys that are collected during the fiscal year from taxes under the Sales and Use Tax Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 6001) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code) , or any successor to that law, upon the sale, storage, use, or other consumption in this State of motor vehicle fuel, and that are deposited in the General Fund of the State pursuant to that law, shall be transferred to the 'Transportation Investment - Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) (1) For the 2003-04 to 2007-08 fiscal years, inclusive, moneys in the Transportation Investment Fund shall be allocated, upon appropriation by the . Legislature, in accordance with Section 7104 of the Revenue and Taxation Code as that section read on the operative date of this article. (2) For the 2008-09 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, moneys in the 'T'ransportation Tnvestnent Fund shall be allocated solely for the following purposes: (A) Public transit and mass transportation. (B) Transportation capital improvement projects, subject to the laws governing the State Transportation Improvement Program, or any successor to that program. (C) Street and highway maintenance, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or storm damage repair conducted by cities, including a city and county. (D) Street and highway maintenance, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or storm damage repair conducted by counties, including a city and county. (c) For the 2008-09 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, moneys in the Transportation Investment Fund shall be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as follows: 2 1 (A). Twenty percent of Lhe moneys for the purposes set forth in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) . (B) Forty percent of the moneys for the purposes set forth in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) . (C) 'Twenty percent of the moneys for the purposes set forth in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) . (D) Twenty percent of the moneys for the purpose set forth in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) . (d) The transfer of revenues from the General Fund of the State to the Transportation Investment Fund pursuant to subdivision (a) may be suspended, in whole or in part, for a fiscal year if both of the following conditions are met: (1) The Governor has issued a proclamation that declares that the transfer of revenues pursuant to subdivision (a) will result in a significant negative fiscal impact on the range of functions of government funded by the General Fund of the State. (2) The Legislature enacts by statute, pursuant to a. bill passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurr.•ing, a suspension for that fiscal year of the transfer of revenues pursuant to subdivision (a) , provided that the bill does not contain any ol.her unrelated provision. (e) The Legislature may enact a statute that modifies the percentage shares set forth in subdivision (c) by a bill passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring, provided that the bill does not contain any other unrelated provision and that the moneys described in subdivision (a) are expended solely for the purposes set forth in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) . 3