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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1204
Author: Huber (D)
Amended: 01/14/10 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 6-1, 6/15/10
AYES: Lowenthal, Huff, DeSaulnier, Kehoe, Pavley, Simitian
NOES: Harman
NO VOTE RECORDED: Ashburn, Oropeza
SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE : 4-1, 6/30/10
AYES: Aanestad, Kehoe, DeSaulnier, Price
NOES: Cox
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 68-0, 1/27/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : El Dorado County Transportation Commission
SOURCE : El Dorado County Transportation Commission
DIGEST : This bill increases and revises the membership
of the El Dorado County Transportation Commission.
ANALYSIS : The Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
designated the El Dorado County Transportation Commission
(EDCTC) as a regional transportation planning agency (RTPA)
in 1975. EDCTC's jurisdiction is all of El Dorado County,
except the Lake Tahoe Basin, which is under the
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jurisdiction of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
Between 1975 and 1995, EDCTC was a unit of the El Dorado
County Department of Public Works. Existing law at the
time required that the board of supervisors and the City of
Placerville each appoint three members. In 1995, the County
of El Dorado and the City of Placerville executed a joint
powers agreement establishing EDCTC as an independent
agency separate from county government. The structure of
its governing board remained the same.
SB 902 (Leslie), Chapter 436, Statutes of 1996, establishes
EDCTC as a statutorily created regional transportation
planning agency and codified the joint powers agreement
between El Dorado County and the City of Placerville. SB
902 established a governing board consisting of three
members appointed by the El Dorado County Board of
Supervisors and three members appointed by the City of
Placerville.
This bill:
1. Increases the membership of the EDCTC governing board
from six to seven members.
2. Increases the members appointed by the county board of
supervisors from three to four members.
3. Specifies that each incorporated city within El Dorado
County (excluding cities in the Lake Tahoe Basin) shall
appoint two members to the board, unless there is only
one incorporated city, in which case that city shall
have three appointed members.
Comments
Currently the City of Placerville, the only incorporated
city in the jurisdiction of the EDCTC, has three
representatives on EDCTC's governing board. This bill
revises the membership of EDCTC and the distribution of
municipal representation within El Dorado County in the
event one or more new cities are incorporated. At the time
of the incorporation of a new city, Placerville's
representation will be reduced from three members to two
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members and the new city would have two representatives.
Should this occur the size of the governing board will
increase from seven to eight members. With the
incorporation of each additional city, no existing city
would lose membership, but each new city will be entitled
to two representatives on EDCTC's governing board.
Shift in El Dorado County's population drives
representation reform . The 1996 legislation established
the current structure of EDCTC's representation. According
to the author's office, El Dorado Hills' population and the
transportation needs within the county have changed
dramatically since then. Currently, the population of El
Dorado Hills is approximately 35,000 while the population
of Placerville is approximately 10,000. There has been one
unsuccessful incorporation vote in El Dorado Hills, and it
is likely there will be another effort to incorporate the
community. Recognizing the shifting population dynamics in
the county and the aspiration of many to create a second
city, the EDCTC established a fourteen-member citizens'
advisory committee to examine the composition of EDCTC's
governing board and recommend changes to its structure.
After holding six public hearings throughout the county,
the committee recommended that board representation take
into account population, geography, community diversity,
ease of communication, balance, and flexibility to allow
for future incorporated cities to gain representation.
EDCTC unanimously voted to recommend the language that is
now in this bill.
Responsibilities of EDCTC . As an RTPA, EDCTC is responsible
for allocating Transportation Development Act revenues,
adopting a countywide regional transportation plan,
preparing the regional transportation improvement program,
which is the county's capital outlay program for
transportation investments, and conducting various
transportation studies.
EDCTC is in the area of jurisdiction of the Sacramento Area
Council of Governments (SACOG), the federally designated
metropolitan planning organization for the six county
Sacramento region. A memorandum of understanding between
the two agencies defining their mutual responsibilities was
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entered into in 1994. Among the responsibilities of SACOG
is to ensure the federally required regional transportation
plan, which includes projects nominated by EDCTC, meets the
federal air quality standards. In addition, SACOG includes
the EDCTC transportation projects in the federally required
transportation improvement program. Meeting the air
quality standards and including projects in the
transportation improvement program are prerequisites for
the region receiving federal highway and transit funding.
In addition, both agencies agree to use common data bases
and information sources in developing their plans and
transportation investment programs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/4/10 )
El Dorado County Transportation Commission (source)
Four Seasons Civic League
OPPOSITION : (Verified 8/4/10 )
Department of Finance
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles
Calderon, Chesbro, Cook, Coto, De La Torre, Emmerson,
Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller,
Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman,
Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber, Huffman,
Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello,
Nielsen, John A. Perez, Portantino, Ruskin, Saldana,
Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland,
Swanson, Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada
NO VOTE RECORDED: Carter, Conway, Davis, De Leon, DeVore,
Hall, V. Manuel Perez, Salas, Torlakson, Bass
JJA:do 8/2/10 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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