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RESOLUTION 65-20 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS OPPOSING THE VALLEY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY'S 2016 MEASURE B 10 -YEAR OUTLOOK BASE SCENARIO WHEREAS, in 2016, the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Board of Directors placed before the voters of Santa Clara County Measure B, a one-half cent sales tax measure operative for 30 years that would fund nine program categories, with the primary goals to provide meaningful congestion relief throughout the County and improve road pavement conditions; and, WHEREAS, the nine program categories include in the 2016 Measure B are: Local Streets and Roads, BART Phase II, Bicycle/Pedestrian, Caltrain Grade Separation, Caltrain Corridor Capacity Improvements, Highway Interchanges, County Expressways, State Route 85 Corridor, and Transit Operations; and, WHEREAS, BART Phase II is just one of the nine programs authorized in the Measure and is limited to a maximum of 25 percent of the total Measure B revenues; and, WHEREAS, in November 2020, VTA administration began presenting VTA Board of Directors' advisory committees with a proposed 2016 Measure B 10 -Year Outlook Base Scenario, covering program allocations for Fiscal Year 2022 to Fiscal Year 2032, that contain built-in assumptions that are unacceptable to the Town of Los Altos Hills; and, WHEREAS, the built-in assumptions are that the BART Phase II project is the highest priority for the next ten years, providing it with first call on the Measure B revenues, and that minimal bonding will be used to fund BART Phase II, which results in little to no Measure B funding being available for the majority of the other Measure B programs during this 10 -year period; and, WHEREAS, under the Base Scenario, the six program areas that are currently identified for zero Measure B funding over the 10 -year period are Local Streets and Roads, Caltrain Grade Separation, Caltrain Corridor Capacity Improvements, Highway Interchanges, County Expressways, and State Route 85 Corridor; and, WHEREAS, this approach is inconsistent with the promises made to voters in 2016 because it will not result in meaningful progress being made for all nine programs over the first fifteen years of the measure, rather, progress will be deferred on most programs until the second fifteen years of the measure which violates voters' and taxpayers' trust and expectations in approving the Measure; and, WHEREAS, in approving Measure B, voters countywide agreed to pay an increased half cent sales tax for thirty years, thereby instituting one of the highest sales tax rates in the Bay Area and State, yet under the proposed 2016 Measure B 10 -Year Outlook Base Scenario only a small portion of the County will benefit and the bulls of the county taxpayers will be paying increased taxes and see few significant benefits for a ten-year period; and, Resolution 65-20 Page 1