Official Summary Text
AB 2679, as amended, Hadwick.
Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program: State Highway Account loans: cities.
State highways: public parking: traffic control.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests the department with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights in property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law establishes the Tahoe Transportation District as a special purpose district managed by representatives from the States of California and Nevada to, among other things, operate a public transportation system in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
This bill would authorize the department, within the Tahoe corridor, to contract with a state agency, a local government, or the district relating to safety, access, and parking in the corridor to prevent
unsafe parking and pedestrian movement, as provided, and enhance public access to the corridor and public recreation sites, by, among other things, developing public parking, establishing and collecting fees for public parking, and developing transit facilities and pedestrian pathways to connect public parking to recreation sites, as specified.
This bill would require all moneys collected from a fee for that public parking to be deposited into the Tahoe Safe Recreation Access Fund, which the bill would establish, and would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the department for purposes of improving transportation facilities on state highways in the Tahoe Basin, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require all penalty moneys collected through citations issued for failing to pay parking fees to be deposited into the Tahoe Safe Recreation Access Penalty Account, which the bill would establish, and would continuously appropriate
moneys in the account to the department for enforcement of parking restrictions and prohibitions on state highways in the Tahoe Basin, thereby making an appropriation.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Existing law creates the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Program to address deferred maintenance on the state highway system and the local street and road system. Existing law provides for the deposit of various moneys, including revenues from certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees, for the program into the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA). Existing law requires funds available for the program to be allocated for various specified purposes and requires the remaining funds available for the program to be continuously appropriated, with 50% for allocation to the Department of Transportation and 50% for apportionment to cities and counties by the Controller. Of the funds to be apportioned to cities and counties, existing law requires the Controller to apportion 50% of those funds to counties pursuant to a specified formula and 50% of those funds to cities in the
proportion that the total population of each city bears to the total population of all the cities in the state. Existing law requires a city or county to submit to the California Transportation Commission a list of proposed projects, as specified, and to comply with a specified maintenance of effort requirement to be eligible for an apportionment of those funds.
Existing law establishes the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. With specified exceptions, money in the State Highway Account is required to be appropriated by the Legislature.
This bill would authorize a city to submit a request to the department
to receive a supplemental apportionment from the State Highway
Account, and would require the department to approve that request, if, among other things, the city’s average annual apportionment from the RMRA for the 3 prior fiscal years is no more than $200,000, the cost of the city’s list of projects submitted to the commission exceeds the amount of its
average annual apportionment for the 3 prior fiscal years, and the city agrees to reimburse the amount of supplemental funding provided from the State Highway Account with its future apportionments from the RMRA or with moneys from other sources, or both, in accordance with terms and conditions established by the commission. If a city receives a supplemental apportionment, the bill would authorize a city to receive its
apportionment from the RMRA without submitting a list of proposed projects or complying with the specified maintenance of effort requirement.