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AGENDA STATEMENT
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: June 18, 2002
SUBJECT: Opposition to SB 1491, San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit
Policy Board
Report Prepared By: Jason Behrmann, Administrative Analyst
ATTACHMENTS: 1) Text of SB 1491, as amended May 30, 2002
2) · Draft letter opposing SB 1491
RECOMMENDATION:A t'~ (~ Authorize the Mayor to sign and send letter opposing SB 1491
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None
DESCRIPTION:
Mayor Lockhart has requested that the City Council consider authorizing a letter of opposition to Senate
Bill 1491, San Francisco [lay Area Regional Transit Policy Board~ The Bill is being actively opposed by
the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (LAVTA).
BACKGROUND:
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is the designated metropolitan planning
organization for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Existing law charges the MTC with numerous
planning, fund allocation, transportation coordination and rhanagement responsibilities. The law also
requires the MTC to provide comprehensive regional transportation planning in the nine-county region
and develop the Regional. Transportation Plan. The Regional Transportation Plan provides for the
development of mass transit, highway, airport, seaport, railroad, bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The
MTC also is responsible for evaluating requests from local agencies for state and federal grants for
transportation projects to determine compatibility with the plan.
Existing law requires the MTC to establish the Regional Transit Coordinating Council (RTCC) for the
purpose of coordinating routes, schedules, fares and transfers among Bay Area transit operators and the
consideration of joint ventures in marketing, maintenance and purchasing. The RTCC is composed of all
transit managers in the Bay Area.
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ISSUES:
SB 1491 merges statutory references and provisions relating to the Bay Area's RTCC into a new regional
transit policy board, and specifies that the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board (RTPB)
is the successor organization to the RTCC.
SB 1491 does the following:
1. Creates the 19-member Regional Transit Policy Board consisting of:
A. Nine congestion management agency members (City and County of San Francisco
and the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, SantaClara,
Solano, and Sonoma)o
Six regional transit operator members (Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, the
Golden Gate Bridge,Highway and Transportation District, the San Francisco Bay
Area Rapid Transit District, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency,
the San Mateo County Transit District, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation
Authority).
C. Members appointed by the California Transportation Commission, representing
business, an environmental coalition and a social equity interest.
D. One member from the State Department of Transportation.
Requires the RTPB to develop short-term, medium-term and long-term master regional
plans that include, among other things:
A. Corridor multimodal plans, intermodal transit hub locations, park-and-ride facilities
and feeder system improvements.
B. Cost-effectiveness principles, integrated fare structure recommendations and new
funding sources, including taxes and bridge tolls.
C. Commuter rail expansion and new construction phasing for a HOV lane network
and regional express bus service.
SB 1491, as amended May 30, 2002 does. not provide for rePresentation on the RTPB of medium and
small transit operators such as LAVTA. Additionally, based upon the current language in the Bill
regarding the RTPB's role, it would be possible for the Board to make recommendations regarding transit
in the Bay Area which would not be favorable to small operators.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the Council authorize the Mayor to sign and send the attached letter opposing SB
1491, San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board.
· SB 1491 Senate Bill - AMENDED Page 1 of 6
BILL NUMBER: SB 1491 AMENDED BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 30, 2002
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 14, 2002
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 24, 2002
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 1, 2002
INTRODUCED BY Senator Perata
FEBRUARY 19, 2002
An act to amend Sections 66516 and 66516.5 of, and to add Section
66537 to, the Government Code, and to amend Section 99230 of the
Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation°
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1491, as amended, Perata. Transportation: San Francisco Bay
Area Regional Transit Policy Board.
(1) Existing law establishes the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission to provide comprehensive regional transportation Planning
for the region comprised of the City and County of San Francisco and
the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Matin, Napa, san Mateo, Santa
Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Under existing law, the commission is
required to work with the regional transit coordinating council to
coordinate fares and schedules an~ to consolidate functions performed
by individual public transit systems.
This bill would establish the San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Transit Policy Board and would merge the regional transit
coordinating council into the board. The bill would provide that the
board would be the successor organization to the council and would
assume the council's functions and provide advice to the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission on regional transit planning and expansion
issues, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
The bill would provide for the membership of the board and would
require the board to develop short-term, medium-term, and long-term
master regional transit plans. The bill would require the board,
after complying with certain requirements, to submit the plans to the
commission. The bill would require the commission to consider the
plans and to comply with specified procedural requirements if it
elects to amend any provision of the plan, thereby imposing a
state-mandated local program. The bill would specify that costs
incurred by'the commission in discharging these functions be paid
solely from funds allocated to it for the conduct of the
transportation planning and programming process.
The bill would require any regional transit expansion policy
adopted by the commission on or after July 1, 2005, to be consistent
with the plans, except as specified.
The bill would require each agency or operator that appoints a
member to the board to make specified monetary and staff support
contributions to the board on an annual basis. The bill would
require the board to use these funds to cover any costs incurred
under these provisions and would require the board to endeavor to
complete the specified work elements subject to the budgetary
constraints. The bill would provide that the board is under no
obligation to exceed the funds available in performing the work
specified in the bill. The bill would provide that these fund
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be considered in full satisfaction of and in lieu of any
reimbursable mandate claims relating to work effort incurred pursuant
to the bill.
The bill would provide that these provisions would become
inoperative on July 1, 2003, if less than ~ ~ccificd numbe~
members have been appointed to the board ~
dono £o on by that date.
(2) Existing law, the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, authorizes the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, as a designated
transportation planning agency, to allocate moneys from the local
transportation fund established by a county to designated claimants.
This bill would prohibit the commission from making an allocation
of these funds to ~ c!~im~nt other th~n a
transit operator that is not a participating member of the San
Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board , provided the
board is established by the appointmen.t of 10 or more members to it
on or before July 1, 2003
(3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide with respect to the San Francisco Bay Area
Regional Transit Policy Board, that no reimbursement is required by
this act for a specified reason°
This bill would also provide that the Legislature finds there is
no mandate contained in the bill that will result in costs incurred
by the Metropolitan TranSportation Commission for a new program or
higher level of service which require reimbursement pursuant to these
constitutional and statutory provisions°
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 66516 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
66516° The commission, in coordination with the San Francisco Bay
Area Regional Transit Policy Board established pursuant to Section
66537, shall adopt rules and regulations to promote the coordination
of fares and schedules for all public transit systems within its
jurisdiction. The commission shall require every system to enter
into a joint fare revenue sharing agreement with connecting systems
consistent with the commission's rules and regulations. The San
Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board shall be the
successor organization to the regional transit coordinating council
established by the commission pursuant to Section 29142.4 of the
Public Utilities Code.
SEC. 2. Section 66516.5 of the Government Code is amended to read:
66516.5. The commission may do the following:
(a) In consultation with the San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Transit Policy Board, identify those functions performed by
individual public transit systems that could be consolidated to
improve the efficiency of regional transit service, and recommend
that those functions be consolidated and performed through
interoperator, agreements or as services contracted to a single
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entity.
(b) Improve service coordination and effectiveness in those
transit corridors identified as transit corridors of regional
significance by the commission in consultation with the San Francisco
Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board by recommending improvements
in those corridors, including, but not limited to, reduction of
duplicative.service and institution of coordinated service across
public transit system boundaries.
SEC. 3. Section 66537 is added to the Government Code, to read:
66537. (a) The regional transit coordinating council, created by
the commission pursuant to Section 29142.4 of the Public Utilities
Code, is hereby merged into the San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Transit Policy Board.
(b) The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board is
hereby established for the purpose of providing advice to the
commission on regional transit planning and expansion issues.
(c) The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board
consists of the following 19 members:
(1) Nine congestion management agency members. The congestion
management agencies for the City and County of San Francisco and the
Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa
Clara, Solano, and Sonoma may appoint one member each.
(2) Six regional transit operator members. The governing boards
of the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, the Golden Gate Bridge,
Highway and Transportation District, the San Francisco Bay Area
Rapid Transit District, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation
Agency, the San Mateo County Transit District, and the Santa Clara
Valley Transportation Authority may appoint one member each.
(3) Four stakeholder members. The California Transportation
Commission shall appoint a member from a business advisory group, a
member from an environmental coalitions and a member representing
social equity interests. These members shall be selected with the
goal of providing a regional perspective to the board. The
Department of Transportation, District 4, shall be the fourth
stakeholder member.
(d) In furtherance of its purpose, the board shall develop
short-term, medium-term, and long-term master regional transit plans
that include, but need not be limited to, all of the following
elements:
{1) A recommended multimodal plan, by corridor.
(2) Established principles of cost-effectiveness and other
significant performance measurements.
(3) Identification of locations that will serve as transit hubs
for intermodal connections.
(4) Integrated fare structure recommendations.
(5) Recommended phasihg of new construction of the high-occupancy
vehicle lane network, and the initiation of the regional express bus
service.
(6) Strategic commuter rail expansion.
(7) Feeder system improvements, and recommended park and ride
facilities.
(8) Recommended funding sources.
(9) Any proposed new funding sources, including, but not limited
to, increased bridge tolls, the sales tax on fuel, and coordinated
sales tax measures.
(e) The board shall submit the plans developed under subdivision
(d) to the commission on or before January 1, 2005, and shall update
the plans not less than once every three years thereafter. The
commission at a regularly scheduled meeting shall consider and adopt
the plans described in subdivision (d) within a reasonable time after
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their submission. If the commission elects to amend any provision
of a plan, it shall make tentative findings explaining the basis for
the amendment. The San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy
Board shall respond to these findings within 30 calendar days after
the date the commission made the findings. The commission shall make
any amendment to the plan at a public meeting, after considering the
response to the amendments by the San Francisco Bay Area Regional
Transit Policy Board.
(f) Any regional transit expansion policy adopted by the
commission on or after July 1, 2005, shall be consistent with the
plans adopted under subdivision (e), except that this subdivision
does not apply if the board does not submit the original plans or the
updated plans on or before the deadlines imposed under subdivision
(g) The regional transit plans may not be submitted to the
commission until all of the following conditions have been met:
(1) The plans have been approved by not less than two-thirds of
the members appointed under paragraph (1) of subdivision (c)~ and not
less than two-thirds of the members appointed under paragraph (2) of
subdivision (c).
(2) The plans have been ratified by the governing bOards of a
majority of the congestion management agencies listed in paragraph
(1) of subdivision (c), and the governing boards of a majority of the
transit operators listed in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c).
(h) No action taken by the board is valid unless a quorum is
present and a majority of those present and voting approves the
action.
(i) The board shall appoint a chair and other administrative
officers to two-year terms.
(j) Each agency or operator that appoints a member to the board
shall do both of the following on an annual basis:
(1) Submit the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to
the board. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, the
congestion management agencies for the Counties of Marin, Napa,
Solano, and Sonoma shall submit to the board a contribution that is
one-half of the amoUnt of the contribution that the other agencies or
operators are required to submit to the board by this paragraph.
(2) Provide the board with fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) of
staff support in the form of in-kind service°
(k) After the first year of operation, the amount of the
.contributions required under subdivision (j) may be reduced by the
board.
(1) The board shall use the money received under subdivision (j)
to cover any costs incurred under this section° The board shall be
under no obligation to perform work under this section that exceeds
the funds available under subdivision (j). The board shall endeavor
to complete the enumerated work elements to the best of its ability
subject to the budgetary constraints imposed by the funds made
available under subdivision (j). These funds shall be considered in
full satisfaction of, and are in lieu of, any reimbursable mandate
claims relating to work effort incurred pursuant to this section.
(m) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2003, if
less th~ five of the ~gencies listed in pnr~grnph {!) cf
on that d~te. less than lO members have been appointed
to the San Francisco Bay. Area Regional Transit Policy Board by that
date.
(n) Any costs associated with this section incurred by the
commission shall be paid solely from funds provided pursuant to
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Section 99233.2 of the Public Utilities Code.
SEC. 4. Section 99230 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
99230~ (a) The designated transportation planning agency shall,
from an analysis and evaluation of the total amount anticipated to be
available in the local transportation fund and the relative needs of
each claimant for the purposes for which the fund is intended, and
consistent with the provisions of this chapter, annually determine
the amQunt to be allocated to each claimant.
(b) .Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission may not allocate moneys in the fund to
~ c!~im2nt an operator member listed in
paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 66537 of the Government
Code that is not a participating member of the San Francisco
Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board , provided that the board
has been established pursuant to Section 66537 of the
Government Code by the appointment of 10 or more members to it
on or before July 1, 2003
SEC. 5. No reimbursement is required by this act for the San
Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board pursuant to Section
6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because it has
the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments
sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by
this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.
SEC° 6. Pursuant to Section 17579 of the Government Code, the
Legislature finds that there is no mandate contained in this act that
will result in costs incurred by the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission for a new program or higher level of service which require
reimbursement pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the
California Constitution and Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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Senator Tom Torlakson
State Capitol Building #2068
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: Oppose SB 1491, San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board
Dear Senator Torlakson:
SB 1491, which would create the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Transit Policy Board
(RTPB), would prohibit Bay Area public transit operators, with the exception of six, from
participating in important regional transportation planning discussions. The RTPB is
replacing the Regional Transit Coordinating Council, which includes transit managers of
all Bay Area transit agencies.
SB 1491 does not provide for representation of medium and small transit operators and
the City believes that it is imperative that smaller transit operators participate in these
important region-wide disCUssions. Although the Bill defines certain tasks of the Board,
the language in the Bill regarding the Board's role (''charged with, but not limited to")
makes it possible for this group to make recommendations regarding transit in the Bay
Area which would not be favorable to small operators
The City opposes any transportation legislation that ignores local transit operators who
provide an invaluable service to the City's residents and play an important role in
decreasing traffic congestion and improving air quality.
Sincerely,
Janet Lockhart
Mayor
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