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because of the V2 cent sales tax, it means $10.5 million lbr local strects mid roads, the Airway Intemhange, the Isabel Road extension. the 1-580/I-680 project and the BART station. Specifically in Pleasanton, it means $4 million fur local transportation improvements and $32,000 per year for para-transit services, or 9% of Pleasanton's para- transit budget. Measure B will expire on March 31, 2002. This was the promise made to the voters in 1986 the tax would be collected lbr 15 years. l'hat means the local transportation funding will be reduced by approximately 50%, transit and para-transit services will need m be cut, and the local choices that are now enjoyed will diminish. Competition for the other funding sources will be much fiarcer. To continue a special tax, 2/3 voter support is required. What we are presenting tonight is a 20-year expenditure plan. By going from a 15-year plan to a 20-year plan, additional programs and additional projects are being incorporated that were not incorporated in the 1986 plan. They will be able to increase the funding for local transportation, increase the transit operations funding for both LAVTA and ACE and significantly increase the funds for para-transit set-eices. People who live in other parts of Alameda County do not enjoy this invcslment and additional funds were added so that people can travel throughout Alameda County. This plm~ is a very balanced plan and invests one-half of the funds in transit. recognizing that we cannot build our way out of the problems that we have. People are going to have to shift modes and ride transit tbr more of their trips. The other half is invested in all of the other modes: highways, roads and other projects. Dennis Fay, Executive Director of the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency, stated half of the funds will go to improve conditions ~vhere they are less than adequate and to expand the options available to residents and businesses. It addresses every congestion corridor throughout Alameda Cotrely and is supported by many of the opponents to the 1998 measure. All of the modes of transportation are addressed and there is really more for cities, more for transit and more for para-transit services. There is more accountability. There is a watchdog committee which will have 17 members, one representative will be from the Taxpayers Association. the League of Woman Voters and the Pana-Transit Advisory Board. A new board will be set up to adntinister these revenue so that they don't ntix the current revenue stream ~vith the future revenue stream. Something that has been learned l~om the current plan is that every project needs to have a deadline because everyone operates better trader deadlines. Every single capital project in the plan has a deadline to secure additional fimds, if it needs additional funds, and to get through the environmental process. This is to assure the projects are delivered in a very timely fashion. It is a balanced plan between local projects, transit and other modes, with a significant invcsUncnt - 40% of the funds - going to capital projects throughout the region. Specifically in the T~-Valley, what that means is almost $30 million to the Tri-Valley communities in Alameda Comity. it means $300,000 to $500,000 each year for pedestrian, bicycle and sidewalk facilities. It means almost $40 million fur transit operations. k means $3 million for para-transit services and key capital projects. This plan was not developed in a vacuum. It is expected to receive State and Federal fimds. The Tri-Valley Transportation Development Fee program has a list of projects. They looked at both of these plans and then tried to figure out how it could leverage these plans Pleasanton City Council 6 06/20/00 Minutes