SB 230, as introduced, Knight. Local transportation funds: performance audits.
Existing law provides various sources of funding to public transit operators. Under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, revenues from a 1⁄4% sales tax in each county are available, among other things, for allocation by the transportation planning agency to transit operators, subject to certain requirements for the operator to maintain a specified farebox ratio of fare revenues to operating costs. The act requires the transportation planning agency to designate entities other than itself, a county transportation commission, a transit development board, or an operator to make a performance audit of its activities and the activities of each operator to whom it allocates funds. The act requires the transportation planning agency to consult with the entity to be audited prior to designating the entity to make the performance audit and defines “operating cost” for this purpose.
This bill would correct an obsolete cross-reference in this definition of operating costs.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 99247 of the Public Utilities Code is
2amended to read:
For purposes of Section 99246, and as used elsewhere
4in this article:
5(a) “Operating cost” means all costs in the operating expense
6object classes exclusive of the costs in the depreciation and
7amortization expense object class of the uniform system of
8accounts and records adopted by the Controller pursuant to Section
999243, and exclusive of all subsidies for commuter rail services
10operated under the jurisdiction of thebegin delete Interstate Commerce begin insert Surface Transportation Boardend insert and of all direct costs
11Commissionend delete
12for providing charter services, and exclusive of all
vehicle lease
13costs.
14(b) “Operating cost per passenger” means the operating cost
15divided by the total passengers.
16(c) “Operating cost per vehicle service hour” means the
17operating cost divided by the vehicle service hours.
18(d) “Passengers per vehicle service hour” means the total
19passengers divided by the vehicle service hours.
20(e) “Passengers per vehicle service mile” means the total
21passengers divided by the vehicle service miles.
22(f) “Total passengers” means the number of boarding passengers,
23whether revenue producing or not, carried by the public
24transportation system.
25(g) “Transit vehicle” means a vehicle, including, but
not limited
26to, one operated on rails or tracks, which is used for public
27transportation services funded, in whole or in part, under this
28chapter.
29(h) “Vehicle service hours” means the total number of hours
30that each transit vehicle is in revenue service, including layover
31time.
32(i) “Vehicle service miles” means the total number of miles that
33each transit vehicle is in revenue service.
34(j) “Vehicle service hours per employee” means the vehicle
35service hours divided by the number of employees employed in
36connection with the public transportation system, based on the
37assumption that 2,000 person-hours of work in one year constitute
38one employee. The count of employees shall also include those
P3 1individuals employed by the operator which provide services to
2the agency of the operator responsible for the operation of the
3
public transportation system even though not employed in that
4agency.
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