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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a one-year agreement between the City of Long Beach and the Long Beach Public Transportation Company for the disbursement of transportation funds for Fiscal Year 2012. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Proposition A (Prop A) was approved by the Los Angeles County voters in November 1980 authorizing a sales tax increase of one-half cent for public transit purposes. Collection of this tax began in July 1982, and the funds are administered and disbursed by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to cities based on a per capita basis.
On August 10, 1982, the City Council approved a joint report by the Director of Public Works and the Executive Director and General Manager of the Long Beach Public Transportation Company (Long Beach Transit) relative to the disbursement of Prop A Local Return funds. Both the City and Long Beach Transit use these funds for various transportation-related capital and operating expenditures. In accordance with the report, the City of Long Beach and Long Beach Transit entered into an agreement outlining fund allocation procedures. This agreement has since been extended by the City Council every three years. The most recent three-year agreement, which expired on June 30, 2011, allocates to Long Beach Transit 70 percent of the Prop A funds received by the City.
City Council has directed staff to achieve full cost recovery for services the City provides. The Police Department provides security services for Long Beach Transit through the Agreement for Law Enforcement Services dated August 23, 2006. These costs will also be recovered through Prop A funds, providing for full cost recovery.
Additionally, staff intends to conduct an in-depth analysis of Long Beach Transit’s operational needs to determine if the current level of support should be adjusted. Consequently, staff is requesting a one-year agreement at this time.
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