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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;:
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a prorata basis according to population once allowances for regional trans-
portation needs., public transportation, the City of San Jose and the unin-
corporated County area shares are made.
a. ) The latest State Department of Finance population figures will be
used in determining the prorata shares. Based on 1972 figures the
following percentages reflect each city's share:
City Share
Campbell _ 1 .2%
Cupertino 1 .0%
Gilroy 0.6%
Los Altos 1 .1%
Los Altos Hills 0.3%
Los Gatos 1 .1%
Milpitas 1 .4%
Monte Sereno 0.2%
Morgan Hill 0.4%
Mountain View 2.6%
Palo Alto 2.4%
Santa Clara 4.1%
Saratoga 1 .3%
Sunnyvale 4.4%
22.1%
b. ) The exchange of County Gas Tax Funds to the cities will be made at a
30% discount rate to reflect the additional administrative costs and
the requirement for additional matching funds by the County.
c. ) Payment to the cities by the County will be made within forty-five
days after the County actually receives the FAU funds.
d. ) The County Gas Tax funds exchanged with the cities must be spent by
the cities for legal Gas Tax fund purposes.
2. The three year FAU program will be developed by a committee which includes
a representative from the County of Santa Clara, the City of San Jose,
CALTRANS and MTC.
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a. ) The three year program may include projects submitted by. CALTRANS, the .
County Transit District, the City of San Jose and the County of
Santa Clara.
b. ) The following distribution of FAU funds will be u'sed. as a guideline
in the development of the three year FAU program:
Regional Transportation
(including public transportation) . 50%
City of San Jose projects,. 22%
County of Santa Clara projects 28%
100%
c. ) The following criteria will be used in evaluating projects and devel-
oping a three year program:
(1 ) State of readiness. (status of plans, specifications , estimate,
EI.R, approvals, agreements , etc. ) .
(2) Benefitto 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.
(6) Benefit to accident history.
(7) - Community and enittronmental considerations.
d. ) The three year FAU program will be approved by the City Council of San
Jose, the County Transportation Commission (for that portion of the
program which involves regional and public transportation projects) ,
and the 'County Board of Supervisors. It shall then be transmitted by
March 1 of each year to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for
review and approval with regard to regional interest and to the
Director of the State Department of Transportation for approval .
e. ) Said three year program shall be reviewed and revised each year to
include additional projects as submitted by reTigible agencies and re-
visions shall be approved as provided in paragraph 2(d) .
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3. The above described process will be reviewed and approved in the following
manner:
a. ) It shall first be referred to the County Transportation Commission for
approval .
b. ) Once approved by the Transportation Commission, the process will then
be referred to each City Council 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) .
c. ) Once the requirements defined in paragraph 3(b) above are satisfied,
the process shall be submitted to the County Board of Supervisors
for approval .
d. ) 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.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the highway system shown onthe attached map
be approved as the FAU Highway System for Santa Clara County.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills held on
the third day of July, 1974. .
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City -Clerk