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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with the Long Beach Public Transportation Company, for disbursement of Proposition A local return funds, for a five-year term, beginning July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2021. (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 (Metro) to cities on a per capita basis. Prop A funding is to be used exclusively for the construction, improvement and maintenance of mass transit services and facilities. Prop A funds are used for bus stop improvements and maintenance, recreational transit services, transit facilities/transportation enhancements, park-and-ride lots, signal synchronization that prioritizes buses, transit demand management, right-of-way improvements, administration, and other costs related to public transit.
On August 10, 1982, the City Council received a joint report by the Director of Public Works and the Executive Director of Long Beach Transit relative to the disbursement of Prop A Local Return funds. Both the City and Long Beach Transit work in cooperation on the use of these funds for various public transit-related capital and operating expenditures. To detail the use of Prop A funding, the City and Long Beach Transit entered into an agreement, which has been extended by the City Council numerous times.
Under the previous agreement, approved by the City Council on August 18, 2015, the City reimbursed a flat amount of $4,500,000 for Long Beach Transit’s operational needs and $690,603 for Law Enforcement Services. Starting on July 1, 2016 (year one), staff recommends allocating 53 percent of the City’s Prop A funds received from Metro to reimburse Long Beach Transit for actual annu...
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