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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1977/03/15 Item 13CITY OF CHULA VISTA COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT ITEM NO 13 FOR MEETING OF: 3/15/77 ITEM TITLE: Resolution 8539:Approving the Federal Aid Urban (FAU) Program Procedures SUBMITTED BY~ Director of Public Works/City Engineer 11 ITEM EXPLANATION This resolution forwarded for your approval is a major revision of the FAU Program procedures which Council approved by Resolution No. 8295 on August 17, 1976. As you might recall, those procedures were offered due to the changes in the new federal FAU Program and changes in State law. Following approval of the August 1976 version by the requisite cities, the FAU Committee forwarded the procedures to CPO and the MTDB for their approval. The revised version, which is attached, (and designated as Version 5) is that version which has been ultimately approved by CPO. The MTDB is scheduled to consider this version at their April 11 board meeting. The MTDB staff has indicated that they plan on recommending approval of the process and simultaneous approval of the new program. The City Council will be considering a Resolution for the 1976 Program on a companion item at this meeting. The major changes in the process approved by Council in August of 1976 and the process known as Version 5 attached, which is forwarded for your approval, are as follows: 1. The Version 5 procedures is essentially a one page procedure which incorporates into it as "internal operating guidelines" the pro- cedures approved by Council at the August 1976 meeting - with only minor modifications. r\/1 IInITf~ ATTAnI Ir I"1 C/lrllDl I J HI I Hl/rICV Agreement Resolution x Ordinance Plat Other x Version 5, Environmental Document: Attached Submitted on FAU Program Procedures STAFF RECOMMENDATION: City Council adopt resolution. BOARD/ COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION COUNCIL ACTION A P P R O V E D ~~T ~~:? Of Chula Vi ~tw, C^.lilornia Dated,....-, is-.r~ ..............~.....~ Form A-113 (Rev.5-75) Item No . 13 Supplemental Page 2 2. The Version 5 procedures more clearly states the program adoption process. These procedures add the Comprehensive Planning Organization to the groups necessary for acceptance of the procedures themselves and for modifications to the procedures. The procedures states that "the FAU Advisory Committee shall develop in- ternal operating guidelines which shall be consistent with these procedures for carrying out their responsibility for the FAU Program development". The guidelines developed by the FAU Committee are very similar to the pro- cedures approved by the Council in August of 1976. The changes are minor and include clarifying language concerning the role of CPO into the process. The major change in the guidelines is that since they are internal operating guidelines they may be modified from time to time by the FAU Committee without submittal to the various agencies represented on the Committee. (Version 3) SAN DIEGO URBANIZED AREA FEDERAL AID URBAN PROGRAM INTERNAL OP~tATING GUIDELINES February 10, 1977 PURPOSE The pur_pos~ of these guidelines is to supplement the San Diego Urbanized Area Federal Aid Urban Program Procedures and to act as the internal operating guide- lines for carrying out the responsibility of FAU program development. PROCESS The attached flow chart labeled Exhibit rrArr and dated February 10, 1977 is hereby included in these guidelines. The follocaing narrative refers to the steps as enumerated on the chart. Step 1. AGENCIES SUBMIT PROJECT PROPOSALS The following agencies shall be the only eligible project applicants for Federal Aid Urban funding: City of Carlsbad City of Chula Vista City of Coronado City of Del Mar City of El Cajon City of Escondido City of Imperial Beach City of La Mesa City of National City City of Oceanside City of San Diego City of San Marcos City of Vista CALTRANS, District 11 San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board North San Diego County Transit Development Board County of San Diego la. Agencies wishing to sponsor a Federal Aid Urban project shall be responsible for submitting a project proposal to the FAU Advisory Committee. Project proposals shall be submitted in a form pre- scribed by the Committee and information submitted shall include at least: type of project, location, cost, status, and other pertinent details required for evaluation. Project proposals or revisions shall be approved by the legislative body of the re- spective sponsoring agencies. lb. CALTRANS' project proposals shall be approved by the District Director and shall be submitted in advance to permit review prior to local agency submittals. 2. A deadline for project submittals for each Federal Aid Program shall be established by the Committee. 3. Applications will not be changed unless changes are approved by the Committee. 4. To be considered for FAU priorities, highway projects shall: a. Conform to local agency general plan. b. Appear on the approved FAU System map on file with the County Department of Transportation as of the project submittal dead- line date. 5. "Transit projects will be considered which can show advantage to FAU System. Step 2. FEDERAL AID URBAN ADVISORY CO~fMITiEE RECEIVES AND EVALUATES PROPOSALS The FAU (Federal Aid Urban) Advisory Committee is hereby constituted. This Committee shall consist of individual representatives of the cities, county, CALTRANS, and transit agencies within the San Diego urbanized area who are familiar with the transportation needs of the region. A. COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP 1. Committee membership will consist of one member nominated by the legislative bodies of each of the cities, the County, NCTDB, and SDMTDB, and for CALTRANS a member appointed by the District Director. Each member organization shall provide an alternate to serve in the absence of the regular Committee member. 2. Each member agency will have one vote on Committee matters with the majority of votes ruling. 3. The Comprehensive Planning Organization will provide an ex-officio member of the Committee. 4. The San Diego Transit Corporation will provide an ex-officio member of the Committee. S. The Chairman of the Committee shall be chosen from the members of the Committee. 6. Secretarial and staff services shall be furnished by the County Department of Transportation. B. DUTIES OF THE COrictITTEE 1. The Committee shall develop programs for the expenditure of Federal Aid Urban funds in accordance with guidelines and requirements of the State Urban Systems Committee and the State Director of Trans- portation. 2. The Committee shall provide maximum coordination with the long-term regional transportation planning program of the San Diego urbanized area when considering a recommended project of regional significance. 3. The Committee shall review and evaluate potential Federal Aid Urban projects submitted by sponsoring local agencies and develop a recom- mended program for the expenditure of Federal Aid Urban funds in the San Diego urbanized area. 4. The Committee shall monitor the approved program, review progress reports from CALTR.ANS and the local agencies, and submit recommended programs' revisions as may become necessary. C: DUTIES OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS 1. Committee members shall be responsible for notifying appropriate officials within the agency they represent of Committee actions and shall request agency decisions where needed. 2. Committee members shall provide project data and status reports to the Committee-at-large for projects sponsored by their agencies. 3. Committee members shall be responsible for meeting all deadlines established by the Committee. 4. CALTRANS shall provide funding level data, State and Feder-al dead- lines, and other detailed information necessary for Committee decision. 5. Ex-officio members shall not hold voting rights at Committee meetings. D. EVALUATION 1. Prior to the deadline for project submittals, the Committee shall develop and approve a procedure to evaluate all project requests. 2. Staff for the FAU Advisory Committee shall evaluate projects. 3. For the purpose of evaluation, projects shall be divided into the following categories: Regional Road Projects, Transit Projects, and Local Road Projects. 4. All projects will be categorized by the major use of funds requested. 5. Before a priority list is established, individual projects will be reviewed by Committee staff ~vith the applicant to ensure agreement as to rating evaluation. 6. AlI disparities between staff arui applicant will be resolved by the Committee. 7. Distrib ution by Category From the evaluation of project requests, a priority list will be established and assembled which will show the following approximate distribution percentages of available FAU funds. a. Regional Road Projects - up to 50% Regional projects shall be selected from that set of FAU system roads which have been identified as regionally significant. A map showing the adopted set of regionally significant roads as approved by the Committee shall be on file with the County Department of Transportation as of the deadline date for project submittal. The map shall be prepared by CPO. One-fifth of regional projects may be traffic signals and road re- habilitation (recap) projects. b. Transit Assist Projects - up to 25% To transit assist projects, such as multimodal transfer facili- ties, guideways, stations, transit shelters, carpools, vanpools, exclusive bus lanes, bus turnouts, maintenance facilities. No rolling stock will be funded with FAU funds. c. Local Road Projects - minimum 25% To projects on the Federal Aid Urban system of roads as shown on the map on file with the County Department of Transportation as of the deadline date for project submittals. E. SEQUENCE OF FROGRAM DEVELOPMENT The Committee shall develop a program utilizing the following sequence of actions: 1. a. Agencies shall submit proposals for regional road projects. b. .The Committee staff shall evaluate regional road projects according to the evaluation system approved by the Committee. c. The Committee shall select regional road projects from the resulting priority listing within the formal distribution shown in Section D.7. 2. a. Agencies shall submit proposals for transit assist projects. b. The Committee shall select transit assist projects from the resulting priority listing within the formal distribution shown in Section D.7. 3, a. The Committee will assign funds for local road projects within the jurisdictions of member agencies as determined cooperatively by the Committee. b. Sponsoring member agencies will identify their respective local road projects and submit confirming data for inclusion in the transportation improvement program. F. SPECIAL ALLOCATION CONTROLS 1. In any event, the total FAU funding for any project or combination of projects submitted by CALTRANS shall not exceed 33-1/3% of the total FAU funds. 2. In accordance with Title 23, Section 150 of the United States Code, to provide that 'rfair and equitable treatment shall be accorded incorporated municipalities of 200,000 or more population,"i.e. the City of San Diego will be guaranteed a percentage of funds approximately equal to its percentage of population in the urbanized area, or the amount identified as a minimum by CALTRANS. Projects submitted by CALTRANS and transit projects within the cor- porate limits of the City of San Diego, shall be credited to the City for the purpose of determining the percentage of funds. Although the City of San Diego must concur in any project within its jurisdiction, it does not have to be the implementing agency to satisfy this expend- iture provision. 3. Amounts a]located may be partial grants, as may be determined by action of the Committee. 4.~ Member agencies may, by agreement of their legislative bodies, transfer funds for local road projects among themselves, within the allocations for local road projects, subject to approval by the Committee prior to final submission of the program. 5. No changes to the evaluation process shall be made following the deadline for project submittals. G. PROGRAM LIST 1. The FAU Advisory Committee shall assemble a priority listing of projects within the established categories for transmittal to the local agencies. This list shall be referred to ws the recommended FAU Multi-Year Program. 2. The FAU Multi-Year Program shall include sufficient projects beyond available FAU funds so that in the event of surplus funds, the com- mittee will not have to repeat the approval process in order to utilize these funds. The intent is to allow the Committee, in the event of surplus funds, to: (a) provide additional funding to approved projects, (b) fund additional projects from the established list, or (c) fund additional local road projects. Step 3. RATIFICATION BY LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS/BOARDS A. The Committee shall submit the entire FAU Multi-Year Program to all mem- ber agencies for review. B. Cities, the County, the SDMTDB, and NCTDB shall, by resolution, approve or disapprove the FAU Multi-Year Program recommended by the FAU Advisory Committee. The intent of this step is to provide for review of the Federal Aid Urban funding process by elected officials of the member local agencies. C. The resolutions shall be forwarded to the FAU Advisory Committee staff for tabulation. D. If any agency does not respond within 60 days, this shall be interpreted as approving the FAU Multi-Year Program. Step 4. FEDERAL AID URBAN ADVISORY CO~~IITTEE PROCESSING A. The project listing shall be considered approved if favorable action is indicated by resolutions from the majority of legislative councils and boards as enuruerated in Step 3B. B. If approval o~~-' the program, as stated above, does not occux, .then the • FAU Advisory Committee shall restructure the program in order to resolve the objections. C. When the majority of legislative councils and boards approves the recommended FAU Program, the Advisory Committee shall simultaneously submit the program to the Comprehensive Planning Organization (CPO) and the project within the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board's jurisdiction to the SDMTDB. Step 5. SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT BOARD RATIFICATION WITHIN AREA OF JURISDICTION A. SDMTDB by resolution will act to approve, disapprove, or revise project priorities within its area of jurisdiction and shall forward that part of the program to CPO. B. Action on the part of SDMTDB shall not reduce the amount of program alloca- tions outside of the SDMTDB area. Step 6. COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING ORGANIZATION A. CPO will review the FAU program to determine conformance with State and Federal laws and regulations and adopted regional plans. Upon such finding, CPO will endorse for transportation improvement Program/A-95 purposes and for inclusion in the Regional Transportation Plan. B. The CPO will forward the recommended program to CALTRANS, District 11 which will handle all further State processing. Steps 7 & 8 STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CALTRANS), STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARD CALTRANS reviews the recommended program for conformance with guidelines and requirements of the State Urban Systems Committee and the State Director of Transportation and forwards to the California Highway Commission, through the State Transportation Board, for their approval. Step 9. CALIFORNIA HIGHtr'AY COMMISSION The California }iiahway Commission approves the program. FUNDING 1. CALTRANS shall notify the Committee of all FAU appropriations and yearly obligations made to the San Diego urbanized area, and shall make periodic reports to the Committee concerning status of expenditures. 2. Obligation and expenditure of Federal Aid Urban funds will be governed by appropriations, obligational releases, and administrative requirements of the Federal and State governments. 3. Federal Aid Urban funds are available to both the urbanized area and the urban area (Fallbrook). Urban area funds may be transferred to the urban- ized area by agreement of the legislative bodies representing the urban area. 4. CALTRANS will coordinate with the Federal Highway Administration, the' State Transportation Board, and the California Highway Commission so that obli- gations to specific projects will be expeditiously approved. 5. 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