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41, RESOLUTION # 788 RESOLUTION DESCRIBING PROCESS TO BE USED IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY TO IMPLEMENT THE FEDERAL AND URBAN PROGRAM WHEREAS, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973 provides Federal funds for expenditures on the Federal Aid Urban (FAU) System of Highways or, under certain conditions, for public transportation projects; and WHEREAS, the FAU System consists of State highways , city streets and County roadslocated within urban areas and urbanized areas of the State; and WHEREAS, the State Department of Transportation has required that each urbanized and urban area must have a cooperative process to produce a three year program identifying local projects , transit projects and regional highway projects, including State highway projects ; and WHEREAS, th'e cooperative process must involve the cities , the County, the County Transit District, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency, and the State; and WHEREAS, before Federal aid will be made available for Urban System projects within Santa Clara County, the process for determining project prior- ities and developing a three year program must be approved by MTC with regard to the regional interest, and by the State Department of Transportation; and WHEREAS, the County of Santa Clara has been designated as the land agency for purposes of developing the cooperative process in Santa Clara County; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby approves the following process and procedures for deter- mining Federal Aid Urban System project priorities and developing a three year Federal and Urban System Program and requests that they be approved by the State Department of Transportation: 1 . The County of Santa Clara will exchange County Gas Tax Funds with the other cities in the County, with the exception of San Jose, for 22. 1% of the total FAU funds allocated to Santa Clara County. These funds will be allocated . to the individual cities in .accordance with the following provisions and are equal to the amount:;of money which would be available to each city on;: