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FROM: Internal Operations Committee
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DATE: December 17, 1984 Court/
SUBJECT: Organizational Issues Relating to Transportation
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Direct the County Administrator, Director of Planning, and Public Works Director
to critically evaluate the alternative organizational structures which follow,
and others of which they may be aware, and present a status report on what they
have accomplished in this review; what they plan to do, and when they plan to
make final recommendations to the Board at the Board meeting on January 8, 1985.
2. Direct the County Administrator to provide the Board with a listing of all the
transportation related agencies or organizations which the Board or staff participate
in at the City, City-County, County, Regional , Sub-regional or State levels.
BACKGROUND:
Public attention has focused on the Countywide transportation problem. The recruitment
of a transportation planning person to help guide us to the solution to these
transportation problems raises an issue concerning how this new person might best
interface with the existing organization of the County. The reorganization of the
current functions has, therefore, been raised as an issue.
Among other things, transportation planning might consist of at least the following
aspects:
1 . Planning:
o Demographic Projections
o General Planning
o Efforts to balance jobs and housing
o Interface with other agencies
2. Transportation Systems:
o Ride sharing
o Flex Time
o Ramp metering
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
County Administrator OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Director of Planning
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Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator
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3. Transit:
o Bus
o Rail
4. Financial/Advocacy:
o Taxes/State--local
o Fees/conditions
o MTC interface
o Cal-Trans interface
Presently, transportation planning is located within the Public Works Department.
This organization may have been appropriate in the past, but it does not now
appear to be the case as this structure and other influences have hampered good
and appropriate coordination between transportation and planning functions. A
change should therefore be considered.
Among the combinations which should be considered include:
1 . Move transportation planning (and land development) to the Planning Department;
2. Combine all department-related activities (including transportation and land
development) into a new community development department;
3. Create a new department of advance planning and include in it the present
transportation planning function from Public Works and the advanced planning
function from the Planning Department (to avoid single purpose planning) , and
move the land development division of the Public Works Department to the
Planning Department.
The approach followed relates to discussions being conducted at CCTAC concerning
the formation of a countywide transportation planning agency .under a joint powers
agreement intended to foster coordination between all jurisdictions within the
County. This countywide approach has merit, but regardless of the outcome of the
CCTAC discussions, it is critical that county government itself be in a position
to meet the challenge to solve County transportation problems.
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