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AN City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: March 3, 2014 <br />ONR x419 ` Staff Report <br />File Number: 14-062 Agenda Section: ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number: 10.A. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Uchenna Udemezue <br />Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: David Baum <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE: Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution for Approval of <br />the 2014 Alameda County Transportation Expenditure Plan and Request for <br />the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to Place a 30 -Year Extension and <br />Augmentation Measure for the Existing Transportation Sales Tax on the <br />November 4, 2014 General Election Ballot <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends that the City Council approve the 2014 Alameda County Transportation <br />Expenditure Plan (Plan) and request that the Board of Supervisors place it on the November <br />4, 2014 ballot. The ballot measure supported by this Plan will extend and augment the <br />existing half -cent sales tax for transportation in Alameda County for a 30 -year term and add <br />an additional half -cent sales tax for the transportation programs and projects described in the <br />2014 Plan. <br />L�L�I felae1ILL: <br />In 1986, voters approved Measure B, a half -cent sales tax, to fund transportation <br />improvements and programs throughout Alameda County. In November 2000, Alameda <br />County voters approved an extension of the first sales tax through 2022 to fund a new set of <br />project and program investments throughout the County. All of the major projects approved <br />by the voters in the 2000 Measure are either underway or complete. Funds that go to <br />Alameda County cities and other jurisdictions to maintain and improve local streets, provide <br />critical transit service, provide transportation services for seniors and persons with disabilities, <br />as well as implement bicycle and pedestrian safety projects will continue until the current <br />Measure B expenditure plan ends in 2022. <br />In 2012, 66.53 percent of Alameda County voters supported a 2012 Transportation <br />Expenditure Plan; it was just 721 votes shy of achieving the two-thirds majority necessary to <br />pass. Because of the strong voter support and the ongoing and growing need for <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 2/25/2014 <br />