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IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the utter of Transit )
Plan of Bay Area Rapid } RESOLUTION NO. 70/546
Transit District. )
WHEREAS the Bay Area Rapid Transit District on August 27,
1970, will consider a policy statement with respect to a Bay Area
Transit Plan; and
WHEREAS Mr. Nello J. Bianco, Contra Costa County
representative on the Board of Directors of said District, appeared
before the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County this day to
present a prepared statement,, a copy of which is on file with the
Clerk of the Board, including the proposals of the BART Administration
Committee relative to said plan with certain amendments suggested by
Mr. Bianco; and
WHEREAS Mr . Bianca suggested that said proposal of the
BART Administration Committee include the following:
Under Paragraph 2 of the report there be added
"All counties requesting studiesto be made
regarding annexation to BART' must provide the
funds to make the studies, and if the State of
California--through, the Legislature--requests
such studies, the State should provide the
money, with BART participation in either case
restricted to staff time only."
For Paragraph 5 of the report there be sub-
stituted "The Board of Directors has listed
that the following areas be given top r i or-
ities for rapid transit extensions: 13 eastern
Contra Costa Count�r, 2 ) the Pleasanton-
Livermore area, 3) the northern half of
San Francisco. ' All other adopted, priorities
should 'come after the three listed herein, in
order that the several pricer commitments made
to the people of these areas regarding extensions
be met. Further, the Board of Directors now
directs the staff to prepare reliable estimates
of the costs of engineering and, planning studies
relative to SART rail extensions; to the three
priority areas'' listed herein'"; and
WHEREAS Mr. Bianco stated that it was his intention "to
work for full rail extension to the Martinez, and the Pinole-
San Pablo areas, as well"; and
WHEREAS it is the opinion of the Board of Supervisors
that the policy statement proposed by Mr. Bianco is desirable as a
policy guide for a BART transit plan:;
RESOLUTION NO. 701546
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLVED that it does hereby
endorse the report of Mr . Nello J. Bianco with respect to a
Policy Statement Relative to a Bay Area Transit Plan and
directs the Clerk of the Board to so inform the Board of
Directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District; and
BE IT BY TEE BOARD FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of
this resolution be transmitted to the other Contra Costa County
representatives on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Rapid
Transit District and to the Contra Costa Mayors Conference
urging them to lend their support to the position taken by the
Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors .
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 25th day of August, 1970 by
the following vote of the Board:
AYES: Supervisors J. P. Kenny, A. M. Diass
J. S. Moriarty, E. A. Linscheid,
T. J. Coll.
NOES: None .
ABSENT: None .
RESOLUTION NO. 70/546