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Resolution 1978-11 ~ e e 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 RESOLUTION NO. 78-11 -1- e e 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 RESOLUTION NO. 78-11 -2- tit e 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 RESOLUTION NO. 78-11 -3- e e 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. RESOLUTION NO. 78-11 -4- e e (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 RESOLUTION NO. 78-11 -5- e e 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: ... ;?-7./. . ..... . "'. ... I . ' /' ~ /. . //~-h- .; / , ATTEST: RESOLUTION NO. 78-11 -6- .. ~.,.. . e e 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 .