CC RES 2013-044 RESOLUTION NO. 2013-44
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES, OPPOSING THE METRO RECOMMENDED FUNDING PLAN FOR THE
CRENSHAW/LAX TRANSIT PROJECT AND SUPPORTING THE DIRECTOR KNABE
AND O'CONNER MOTION.
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation (Metro) is
considering the award of a design and construction contract for the Crenshaw/LAX
Transit Corridor Project at its June 27, 2013 Board of Directors Meeting; and,
WHEREAS, the Metro staff recommends increasing the life of project budget by
$160 million more than the project's April 2013 Metro Board-adopted life of project
budget: and,
WHEREAS, the Metro Measure R Unified Cost Management Process and Policy
states that project funding shortfalls can be funded by reallocating funds from other
projects within the sub-region(s) served by a project; and,
WHEREAS, the Metro Board will also consider a Measure R Project funding
acceleration policy at its June 27, 2013 meeting that will require Metro to issue bonds
and take out loans guaranteed by Measure R, Proposition A and Proposition C; and,
WHEREAS, the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project contract award
recommendation for the June 27, 2013 meeting includes the use of$47.1 million of
Proposition C 25% funds currently allocated to the South Bay Highway Program and
$47.48 million of Measure R funding from the LAX-Metro Airport Connector transit
project, as part of the $160 million to be reallocated from the South Bay and Central
areas to be served by the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor Project; and,
WHEREAS, the application of the April 2011 Metro Board- adopted Cost
Management Process and Policy in this instance jeopardizes the very integrity for which
the flawed policy was designed to protect and sacrifices regional equity by: 1) allowing
project shortfalls to be made up utilizing funding committed to out-year sub-regional
projects and programs, and 2) allowing funding commitments to be rescinded at the
whim of the Metro Board without consultation or concurrence by the affected
subregion(s); and,
WHEREAS, the proposed acceleration policy would reduce the subregions'
access to Measure R funds and require these funds to be spent before 2023, thereby
dramatically increasing the probability that second and third decade Measure R projects
promised to the voters in Measure R, the November 2008 Los Angeles County %-
percent sales tax increase for transportation improvements, will not be built.
BE IT, THEREFORE, RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES:
Section 1: The City of Rancho Palos Verdes opposes Metro staff
recommendations for items #10 and # 52 on the June 27, 2013 Metro Board Agenda
items.
Section 2: The City of Rancho Palos Verdes opposes the use of South Bay
Highway Program funds and LAX-Crenshaw Connector funds as part of the contract
award recommendation for the Crenshaw/LAX project.
Section 3: The City of Rancho Palos Verdes supports other approaches such as
the proposed Knabe/O'Connor Motion that would fund the South Bay portion of$160
million shortfall.
Section 4: The City of Rancho Palos Verdes supports the O'Connor/Knabe
Motion (Item No. 11) on the Metro Acceleration Policy to protect highway funding from
reallocation to transit prior to 2019.
Section 5: The City of Rancho Palos Verdes supports a collaborative process to
re-visit the flawed Metro Measure R Unified Cost Management Process and Policy with
sufficient time for stakeholder input.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 18th day of June 2013.
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ATTEST:
City Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Carla Morreale, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that the
above Resolution No. 2013-44, was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said
City Council at regular meeting thereof held on June 18, 2013.
City Clerk
Resolution No. 2013-44
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