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have. The board will be comprised of 22 members and every jurisdiction in the County will be represented, as well as AC Transit and BART having rights and obligations. Regarding timelines, they have obtained approval from 9 of 14 cities, representing 75% of the population in the county. If approved by the City Council tonight and a few more cities this week, they could request the joint board to adopt the JPA and begin creating the ATC, which will meet and operate for the first time in September. Vice Mayor Thorne questioned whether City staff agrees with the voting distribution. Mr. Fialho said the distribution is a combination of ACTIA's current voting system and the ACCMA's. The City of Pleasanton, being under 100,000 in population, receives one vote. Councilmember Sullivan referred to page 3 of the staff report showing the breakdown of the voting distribution. He understands allocating additional votes to larger population jurisdictions, but did not understand the Board of Supervisors' allocations, stating they each have one vote except for the longest serving board member in attendance, which will have two votes. Mr. Dow said the Ad -Hoc Committee and the Joint Board discussed the issue of voting structure. The voting structure was put together via part science and part heart. Initially, the City of Oakland was supposed to have 3 votes; 2 for a senior member and 1 for a less senior member. Through the negotiation process, because Oakland has a 425,000 population, every 100,000 gets 1 vote. Therefore, Oakland has 4 votes. In order to balance out Oakland's vote, the Board of Supervisors requested and had approved 6 votes. Staff was not part of the decision making process relative to the voting structure and the issue has been heavily negotiated over two or three meetings. Councilmember Sullivan confirmed that the longest voting Supervisor member of the combined committee is Supervisor Keith Carson, District 5, who represents the Oakland, Hercules, Emeryville areas. The way the JPA is written the Board of Supervisors gets the 6 vote only if the most senior member attends the meeting. If the alternate attends, they only get 1 vote. Councilmember Cook- Kallio said she was present when this was discussed and part of what resonated was that the Board of Supervisors have overlapping jurisdictions. Potentially, a member of the Board of Supervisors could represent cities like Pleasanton or Livermore and only have one vote, and this would give more push to things in our area. So, in addition to Supervisors, they also have overlapping jurisdictions. Mr. Dow agreed this was correct. Councilmember McGovern thinks the structure was somewhat unfair because it is based upon population in cities at 100,000. Every Supervisor represents part of that population. To think Oakland would have another vote does not make sense to her because they are already representing the people that their area of the County is in. Mayor Hosterman noted there were no speakers. Councilmember McGovern questioned if projects have already chosen would be funded by the new Commission. Mr. Dow said no and that one action the ACTC is to come up with a countywide transportation plan. In April, they embarked upon an effort to extend or re- authorize the current sales tax measure. From this, the new measure could potentially be used as a funding mechanism for that plan. From a planning perspective, the key purpose of the plan is to identify transportation problems throughout the county, quantify them, and hopefully recommend solutions. City Council Minutes Page 4 of 10 May 18, 2010