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Vince Harris, Executive Director of Alameda County Transportation Authority (ACTA), spoke on this matter. In response to Ms. Mohr, Mr. Harris stated that if there is not a complete local match commitment, the project will not proceed to full construction. With the collection ACTA has received so far, ACTA has been able to proceed with the environmental documentation and the design, which will be completed by early 1997. The local match is adequate for ACTA to proceed with right-of-way acquisition, but it is not adequate to proceed with construction. The project is not an easily phased project; the full commitment of about $100 million is needed to proceed with construction. Mr. Harris continued, ACTA has set October 1996 as the time line to identify the jurisdictions which would commit in the manner the Authority has proposed. If Pleasanton will commit to the project as recommended by staff, San Ramon and Danville would be the only two jurisdictions not committed, which would leave an outstanding balance of $416,000. At this time ACTA proposes to send a letter to all jurisdictions identifying the remaining balance and to propose to meet and discuss how the last amount of money can be achieved. ACTA would like this to occur prior to October so that he could take the item before the governing board. Ms. Mohr asked if the remaining money is not forthcoming, could the participating agencies enter into a reimbursement agreement if the participating agencies were willing to front the money? Mr. Harris believed so. Mr. Tarver asked about the fair share distribution and how ACTA approached the distribution of traffic for Contra Costa County and San Joaquin County. Mr. Harris stated that the model used could only do so much, using the TVTC's model as the basis for its work. The model will omit portions of traffic traveling through the interchange, and this is recognized by ACTA. Consequently, part of the benefits actually go outside of Alameda County. ACTA had to assess boundaries and which counties to approach beyond Alameda County. Contra Costa County is a member of the TVTC and is, therefore, committed to the 1-580/680 project and regional conditions in the Valley. It made sense to for the Authority to look to the TVTC as the basis to do its work. Because San Joaquin County is not a member of the TVTC, it was omitted from the model. Mr. Tarver inquired if there had been any discussion to make adjustments to the model. Mr. Harris noted that if the model is off a few percentages, Pleasanton may have increased traffic. However, the model is being revised by the TVTC. The TVTC has approved a policy that speaks to reimbursement. If the jurisdictions commit to the local match share and when the TVTC fee structure is in place, the cities would be reimbursed. If the model is revised in the future, the cities could be reimbursed. ACTA decided to go forward before the TVTC had its fee structure in place because of the escalation of project dollars for schedule slippage. 08/20/96 -6-