CC RES 2016-048 RESOLUTION NO. 2016-48
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES IN OPPOSITION TO MEASURE
M, THE "LOS ANGELES COUNTY TRAFFIC
IMPROVEMENT PLAN"
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES DOES
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, the South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG) participated
in the development of a countywide process to accumulate a listing of all sub-regional
transportation projects, which resulted in the identification of$275 billion of transportation
projects countywide; and,
WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
(Metro), in response to the identified need, developed an expenditure plan to address the
project capital and operational needs for the County, which will be Metro's template for
mobility for the next 40 years; and the tax itself will remove the sunset provision from
Measure R and continue in perpetuity or until repealed by the electorate; and,
WHEREAS, instead of giving the Measure R project initiatives first priority for new
tax revenues, assuring that second and third decade Measure R projects are completed,
Metro initiated a modeling process utilizing performance metrics that places well-defined
projects with analysis in competition with new projects with assigned attributes. This
modeling exercise has resulted in a reordering or resequencing of projects that benefited
new projects from the City of Los Angeles and placed projects from the South Bay and
other regions behind them; and,
WHEREAS; multi-modal projects that would benefit cities in the South Bay are
being p ggby"leapfrogged"ed" higher-profile projects in more affluent and/or politically-influential
areas in western and northern Los Angeles County and being given priority access to
Federal funding, which is simply not geographically equitable nor fair to the South Bay
cities residents who will be funding these projects for decades before they truly benefit
from them; and,
WHEREAS, Measure M would impose an unfair burden on South Bay jurisdictions
to fund Metro's regional rail projects; under-invest in and delay construction of critical local
street projects until 2040 or later; and effectively impose a permanent countywide sales
tax increase with little obligation or accountability to Metro's local agency partners.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes does
hereby resolve as follows:
Section 1: The City of Rancho Palos Verdes opposes Measure M.
Section 2: The Mayor is hereby authorized to affix his signature to this
Resolution signifying its adoption by the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes
and the Acting City Clerk, or her duly-appointed assistant, is directed to attest thereto.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 18th day of October 2016.
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ATTEST:
A ti 0 e City Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss
City of Rancho Palos Verdes )
I, Teresa Takaoka, Acting City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify
that the above Resolution No. 2016-48, was duly and regularly passed and adopted by
the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on October 18, 2016.
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ding City Clerk
Resolution No. 2016-48
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