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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 01201987 - FIN.1 TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS �� FROM: n,�.., Finance Committee (Coo !tra DATE: January 15 , 1987 Costa Cou* SUBJECT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING DIVISION WORK PLAN AND FEE SCHEDULE SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: Accept this amended report, which recommends that the Board: 1. Approve the revised work plan activities for the Transportation Planning Division of Community Development; 2. Endorse the concept of using new fee revenue to provide a base service level of transportation planning activity and eventually eliminate any Road Fund subsidy; 3 . Authorize the . Department to finalize a fee schedule, on new development, that offsets 1000 of the division' s costs; 4. Direct the Community Development Department to finalize development of a fee schedule implementation scheme for review by Board by its February 24 meeting; 5. Refer the issue of a mission statement for the County' s Transportation Planning process to the Finance Committee 6. Direct the County Development staff to pursue development of- other funding sources such as City or district fee participation on a ."fair share" basis for transportation planning activities. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Fee increase will offset dependence on subsidy from the Road Fund for increased transportation planning activities due to increased urbanization. BACKGROUND: On November 4, 1986, the Transportation Planning Division' s budget was accepted by the Board. Contingent to that acceptance was the referral of items for consideration by the Finance Committee. Those items were: 1. The development of a fee schedule for assessment on new construction to be implemented by March 1987 ; CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; _ YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COU Y D TRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE SIGNATURE s : SUP ert Schroder Supervisor Tom Torlakson ACTION OF BOARD ON January 2 , APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER X IT IS BY THE BOARD ORDERED that this amended report is REFERRED to the Transportation Committee with' respect' to the Transportation Planning Division Work Plan and approach to the fee schedule reportland to the 1987 Finance Committee. Included in the referral to the Finance Committee is the relation- ship of the gas tax road fund to the financing of the transportation planning budget. VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT 3- - AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN, County Administrator cc: Community Development Dept. ATTESTED January 20 1987 _ Transportation Committee PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Finance Committee SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR J M382/7-83 BY ,DEPUTY r 2. The review of the 1986-1987 work plan for activities by the Transportation Planning Division of Community Development; and 3 . The development of a financing formula for Transportation Planning for fiscal year 1987-1988 to be established in February indicating the amount of funds to be contributed by the Public Works Department. In ensuing discussion by Finance Committee members, it was determined that the development of an adequate financing scheme should best be served by an assessment against all new construction. New construction being the direct or indirect source of increased County vehicle traffic. Therefore, this is consistent with the idea of the regional advance planning function dealing with the traffic congestion which results from continued increased urbanization in the County. The Committee felt efforts should be taken which would increase the revenue-to-cost ratio to 100% for transportation planning activities. In 1986-1987 , Road Fund money will be the primary contributing source of the Transportation Planning Division' s budget. The budget for the Transportation Planning Division is $522,000 for fiscal year 1986-87 . It is estimated that approximately $450,000 can be generated by new fee increases. Part of the revenue will be raised by a charge of an assessment of $135 per residential dwelling unit in a range of 2000 to 2500 dwelling units. This raises approximately $250,000 yearly. Additionally an assessment on all new commercial and industrial square footage would raise approximately $200,000. These efforts at fee increases will eventually alleviate dependence on funds which are needed and better served for infrastructure maintenance within the county. As part of the funding effort, the Committee reviewed and endorsed in concept the submitted work plan. However, the Committee felt that given the need of the County, a mission statement on transportation planning activities was appropriate. It directed the Community Development staff to provide such a statement for its ' review. Additionally, the Committee discussed the need to coordinate a transportation network which included all independent agencies providing transportation service. This will effectively use current limited resources and develop additional resources to meet future transportation demands. The Committee requested that in view of those limited resources, only essential transportation planning elements be stressed. Additional items should only be pursued as the result of secured increased funding sources and close interaction with other jurisdictions to implement an orderly and timely development of a transportation infrastructure. Therefore, it was deemed essential that new funding sources from grant application, cooperative funding arrangements with developments and/or any Federal or State special legislative funding sources be actively pursued.