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RESOLUTION NO. 78 - 86
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY DESCRIBING PROCESS
TO BE USED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY TO IMPLEMENT THE FEDERAL AID URBAN
PROGRAM AND REPEALING RESOLUTION NO. 78-l1 WHICH IS INCONSISTENT
HEREWITH.
WHEREAS, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 provides
Federal funds for expenditures on the Federal Aid Urban (FAU) Sys-
tem of Highways, or under certain conditions, for public transporta-
tion projects; and
WHEREAS, the FAU System consists of State highways, city
streets and county roads located within urban areas and urbanized
areas of the State; and
HHEREAS, the State Department of Transportation has re-
quired that each urbanized and urban 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, the County Transit District, the Metropolitan Transpor-
tation Commission (MTC) , and the State; and
WHEREAS, before Federal aid will be made available for
Urban System Projects within the County of Santa Clara, the process
for determining project priorities and developing a five (5) year
program for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1976, must be approved
by }ITC with regard to the regional interest, and by the State Depart-
ment of Transportation; and
vlliEREAS, the County of Santa Clara has been designated as
the Lead Agency for purposes of developing the cooperative process
in Santa Clara County;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The City of Gilroy
approves the following process and procedures as a Memo of Under-
standing for determining Federal Aid Urban System Project priori-
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ties and developing a five (5) year Federal Aid Urban System Program
and requests that they be approved by the State Department of Trans-
portation:
SECTION I.
A. The California Transportation Commission is requested, in the
process of allocating FAU funds to Santa Clara County to consider
allocation in accordance with the following:
1. Fifty percent (50%) for regional transportation, in-
cluding public transportation.
2. The remaining fifty percent (50%) to the County of
Santa Clara and the City of San Jose in accordance with the follow-
ing provisions and conditions:
(a) The County of Santa Clara shall be a-portioned
a sum determined by the proportion that the total popula-
tion of the unincorporated portions of the County of
Santa Clara bears to the total population of the entire
County as a geographical area; and, in addition, the
County of Santa Clara shall, for the fiscal years 1976-77
and 1977-78 only, receive the sum that would otherwise
be allocated to the Gilroy urban area for such fiscal
years.
(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.
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(c) The balance remaining 1 after apportionment
of amounts under (a) and (b), shall be allocated to the
City of San Jose in consideration of the additional admin-
istrative costs and procedures and matching funds which
will be required of and undertaken by the City of San
Jose to implement FAU programs, subject1 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;
and excluding Gilroy for the fiscal years 1976-77 and 1977-78 only)
a sum determined by that proportion of the "base figure" which the
total population of such city bears to the total population of all
cities within the County of Santa Clara as a geographical area
(excluding San Jose; and excluding Gilroy for the fiscal years
1976-77 and 1977-78 only).
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; a population determination or estimate
as made shall remain in full force and effect until a subsequent
determination, estimate or revision thereof made thereby.
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D. For each yearly period commencing July 1, 1976, allocations
under this Section shall be made in accordance with population so
determined by the Department of Finance for the immediately proceding
January. Appendix A illustrates the distribution percentages as of
January 1, 1977.
E. Each city shall spend funds received under this cooperative
program for the Federal Aid Urban System or legal gas tax fund pur-
poses.
SECTION II.
The five (5) year FAU program will be developed by a committee
which includes a representative from the County of Santa Clar?, the
City of San Jose, CALTRANS and ~ITC.
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 44.7%
County of Santa Clara Projects 5.3%
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).
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5. Benefit to other segments of the regional and
local highway system.
(6) Benefit to accident history.
(7) Community and environmental consideration.
The cities and county government, having developed the five (5)
year program of projects for FAU funding contained in the current
regional transportation plan of MTC, hereby acknowledge that all
projects programmed for the next succeeding fiscal year and contain-
ed therein are of equal merit and that therefore it is appropriate'
that the funding of those projects should be on the allocation basis
stated herein.
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 recommenda-
tion on the public transportation projects in the FAU Program.
The five (5) year FAU Program shall be then transmitted by March 1
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 15 of
any calendar year commencing in 1979, the alocation process in Sec-
tion 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 repre-
sent a majority of the population of such cities, as to FAU funds
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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
FAU program.
2. Cities in the County representing the majority of the
eligible population.
3. Cities in the County with over 200,000 population (the
City of San Jose).
B. Once the requirements defined in Section IlIA above are satis-
fied, the process shall be submitted to the County Board of Supervi-
sors for approval.
C. Once approved by the Board of Supervisors, the process shall
then be transmitted to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for
approval with regard to the regional interest and to the Director of
the State Department of Transportation.
SECTION IV.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the highway system sh01~ on the map
on file in the Public Works Department of the City of Gilroy is here-
by approved.
SECTION V.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Resolution No. 78-11, adopted by the
Gilroy City Council on February 6, 1978, is hereby re~ealed as it is
inconsistent herewith.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of November by the following
vote:
AYES:
COUNC IL MEMBERS: CHILDERS, CUNNINGHAM, HUGHAl\T, LINK,
PATE, STOUT and GOODRICH.
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
APPROVED:
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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I, SUSANNE E. STEIN~'1ETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy,
do hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 78-86 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 November . 19.!!!... at which meeting a quorum was
present.
IN WITNESS l-JHE RE OF , I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Official Seal of the City of Gilroy. this 9th day of
November
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