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Adoption of Resolution Approving Projects to Be Paid for by the State's Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account for Fiscal Year 2018-19. (Public Works 310)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Acting City Manager
Re: Adoption of Resolution Approving Projects to Be Paid for by the State's Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account for Fiscal Year 2018-19
BACKGROUND
On April 28, 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill No. 1 (SB1) to address basic road maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety needs on the State's highways and local streets and roads. SB1 provides for the deposit of various funds for the program in the State's Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA), including additional revenues from a $0.12 per gallon increase in the motor vehicle fuel (gasoline) tax and 50% of a $0.20 per gallon increase in the diesel excise tax. Both of these revenue enhancements include an inflation adjustment in future years, and each took effect on November 1, 2017.
In March 2018, the California Transportation Commission (Commission) adopted reporting guidelines for jurisdictions receiving this funding. The Commission's guidelines require that cities submit a list of projects to the Commission by May 1, 2018 proposed to be funded with RMRA for FY 2018-19, and that the list be adopted by resolution of the City Council at a regular public meeting.
DISCUSSION
The City of Alameda's 2018-19 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Budget accounted for increased RMRA revenue of $1,361,830 and allocated this revenue to the City's annual pavement management, sidewalk, and traffic signals projects. Approval of the resolution accompanying this item will ensure that the City receives the State's apportionments of this revenue, and each of these projects will be funded as planned in the CIP. The following maintenance projects funded with estimated SB1 allocation have been included in the FY 2018-19 CIP Bud...
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