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11. Status regarding Tri Valley Transportation Council (TVTC) Fee Update Traffic Engineer Mike Tassano provided the staff report, stating that the Council last reviewed the TVTC Fee at the end of 2008. The TVTC, a sub regional organization consisting of five local agencies and two counties, was developed in 1995 to examine regional growth and improvement needs. The TVTC developed eleven regional projects to be funded with this fee and then created a Strategic Expenditure Plan to pay for a portion of those projects. The Strategic Expenditure Plan was updated in 2004, at which point 11 new "List B" projects were added. In 2006, TVTC began a nexus update to encompass and enable the collection of funds for List B projects. The nexus was completed and a draft fee presented to the Council in October 2006. The Council had questions relative to the projects that fee would fund and staff recommended that TVTC construct a Strategic Expenditure Plan prior to the Council's approval of the fee. A Strategic Expenditure Plan Subcommittee was created, comprised of Councilmember Sullivan, Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti, and San Ramon Councilmember Scott Perkins. The subcommittee selected a consultant to help guide the process, project descriptions have been updated, and staff is in the process of reviewing anticipated revenue and creating a prioritization approach. Mr. Tassano reviewed the current prioritization of both List A and List B projects, highlighting the State Route 84 project from 1 -580 to 1 -680. He said his discussion at TVTC regarding funding List A projects before those on List B, but not formal direction has been given to the subcommittee. Without this direction, the subcommittee has explored various options, including merging the two lists and moving projects from List B to List A. Combining the lists does move the Route 84 project down from third to fourth priority as well as moves List B projects such as HOV gap closures, Livermore interchanges, and 1 -680 auxiliary lanes into the top ten. There was also discussion at the subcommittee level about breaking the Route 84 project down into a middle and southern section to be separately funded. If the Council were to pursue this option, the middle section would move to second in line while the southern section would drop to sixth. Referring to the slide presented by staff, Councilmember McGovern noted that the southern section of Route 84 has a markedly better efficacy score when combined with the middle. Mr. Tassano confirmed, explaining that it scores lower because it is neither shovel ready or funded. Councilmember McGovern said it would seem better, from a score perspective, to leave the two portions together. Mr. Tassano confirmed and said it is also better from a regional traffic perspective in terms of flow and connectivity with 1 -580 interchange. Councilmember Sullivan noted that the Route 84 improvement has the highest score of any project on either list. He said that while it is the most effective project in terms of reducing traffic congestion, the score drops because of the lack of funding. Councilmember McGovern said it seems nonsensical to feed a two -lane road into a four or six lane road and asked how it is even a consideration. Mr. Tassano concurred, assured her that is not the ultimate goal, but said this is the current status until funding is secured. He said both the 1- 680 /Route 84 interchange and base of Pigeon Pass will continue to bottleneck until this is resolved. Councilmember Cook- Kallio said she drives that road daily, and the bottleneck continues over the hill to Fremont. Mr. Tassano said that there is a good nexus to establish funding there, although not through TVTC. City Council Minutes Page 7 of 12 March 16, 2010