REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on an Agreement with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority for Funding from the 2016 Measure B Local Streets and Roads Program and Related Budget Amendment
Report
BACKGROUND
In 2016, Santa Clara County voters approved "Measure B," a 30-year half-cent county-wide sales tax to fund improvements for nine transportation related program categories. The program categories are defined as: BART Silicon Valley Phase II, Caltrain Corridor Capacity Improvements, County of Santa Clara Expressways, Local Streets and Roads, Transit Operations, Bicycle/Pedestrian, Caltrain Grade Separations, Highway Interchanges and State Route 85 Corridor. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority administers these funds and requires each agency in Santa Clara County to execute a funding agreement with the VTA in order to receive the annual Local Streets and Roads Program funding from the Measure B sales tax. Measure B was challenged in court shortly after it was approved; resulting in a more than two-year delay in the distribution of the collected funds to local jurisdictions until the California Supreme Court denied a petition for review in late January 2019. Collection of the half-cent sales tax started in April 2017 and funds were held in escrow with the VTA pending resolution of the legal challenge.
DISCUSSION
Measure B will provide each local jurisdiction within Santa Clara County an annual source of guaranteed funding for local streets and road (pavement management programs) projects. The Local Streets and Roads Program utilizes a funding methodology which is based on population and the County of Santa Clara's road and expressway lane mileage to determine each agencies' annual share of guaranteed funding. The City of Santa Clara's current share of guaranteed annual funding is approximately $2.3 million, which over the next 30 years is projected to provide approximately $69 million in aggregate funding for the City's local stre...
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