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RESOLUTION NO. 78-11
P~SOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY SUPPORTING A
PROCESS ~~D PROCEDURE TO BE USED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY TO IMPLEllliNT
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 High-
ways, or under certain conditions, for public transportation projects;
and
WHEREAS, the FAD System consists of State highways, City streets
and County roads located ~ithin urban areas and urbanized areas of the
State; and
~~~EREAS, the State Department of Transportation has required
thilt: each urbanized and..lrhan 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 Transit District, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
(MTC) , and the State; and
WHEREAS, before Federal aid will be made available for Urban
System Projects within Santa Clara County, the process for determin-
ing 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 Denartment of Trans-
portation; 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; and
\VHEREAS, the City of Gilroy comprises a separate urbanized
area with a separate FAU allocation from that of the large urbanized
area of North County; and
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WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy desires to cooperate with the
County of Santa Clara and with the other cities within the County
of Santa Clara by supporting a program of exchanging our share of
funds allocated to us through the FAU program; and
WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy has, by Resolution No. 78-10,
approved a process and procedure for the distribution of FAU funds
allocated to the Gilroy Urban area for fiscal years 1976-77 and
1977-78; and
WHEREAS, the City of Gilroy hereby desires to express its
support of the process and procedures established herein for dis-
tribution of funds to the other cities in the County for those years
and for Gilroy as well as the other cities within the County for
fiscal years 1978-79 thru 1980-81.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Gilroy here-
by approves the following process and procedures for determining
Federal Aid Urban System Project priorities and developing a five
(5) year Federal Aid Urban System Program and requests that they
be approved by the State Department of Transportation:
SECTION I.
A. FAU funds allocated to Santa Clara County are to be
allocated in accordance with the following:
1. Fifty percent (50%) are to be allocated for regional
transportation, including public transportation.
2. The remaining fifty percent (50%) are to be allocated
to the County of Santa 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
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total population of the entire County as a geographical area.
(b) The City of San Jose shall be apportioned a sum
determined 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 under-
taken 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 multiplying 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)
a sum determined by that proportion of the "base figure" which the
total population of such city bears to the total population of the
County of Santa Clara as a geographical area.
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 in Street and Highways Code
Sections 2107 and 2107.2: a population determination or estimate
as made shall remain in full force and effect until a subsequent
determination, estimate or revision thereof made in accordance
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with such code.
D. For each yearly period commencing July 1, 1976, alloca-
tions under this Section shall be made in accordance with popula-
tion so determined by the Department of Finance for the immediately
preceding January. Appendix A illustrates the distribution percen-
tages of January 1, 1977.
E. Each city shall spend funds received under this coopera-
tive 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 commit-
tee 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
County of Santa Clara Projects
45.7%
4.3%
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.
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(6) Benefit to accident history.
(7) Community and environmental consideration.
D. The five (5) year FAD 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 advisory recom-
mendation on the public transportation projects in the FAU Program.
The five (5) year FAU Program shall be then transmitted by March 1st
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.
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 lId.
F. By written notice filed with the Metropolitan Transporta-
tion Commission and County of Santa Clara on or before January 15th
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 majority of the population of such cities, as to FAD
funds subject to apportionment or allocation for periods commencing
immediately subsequent to the first day of July thereafter.
SECTION III.
The above described process will be reviewed and approved 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
FAD program.
(2) Cities in the County representing the majority of the
eligible population.
(3) Cities in the County with over 200,000 population (the
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City of San Jose).
B. Once the requirements defined in Section IlIA, above are
satisfied, 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 Corn-
mission for approval with regard to the regional interest and to
the Director of the State Department of Transportation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of February, 1978, by the
following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: CHILDERS, CUNNINGHAH, HUGHAN,
LINK, PATE, STOUT and GOODRICH.
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
COUNCIL ~lliMBERS: None
APPROVED:
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ATTEST:
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I, SUSANNE E. STEINNETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy,
do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 78-11 is an
original resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of
Gilroy at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 6th
day of February , 19~, at which meeting a quorum was
present.
IN WITJl-mSS t-JHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Official Seal of the City of Gilroy, this 8th day of
February , 1978 .