To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Julie Lucido, Public Works Director
Prepared By: Ian Heid, Acting Senior Civil Engineer
TITLE:
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Napa Countywide Road Maintenance Act (Measure T) - Maintenance of Effort
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Adopt a resolution certifying Measure T Maintenance of Effort for Fiscal Years 2021 through 2023, and determining that the actions authorized by this resolution are exempt from CEQA.
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DISCUSSION:
At the General Election held on November 6, 2012, the voters of Napa County approved a 1/2-cent sales tax increase known as Measure T, the Napa Countywide Road Maintenance Act of 2012. The sales tax is implemented by the Napa Valley Transportation Authority - Taxing Authority ("NVTA-TA"), and the tax proceeds are allocated among all local agencies within the County.
Measure T funding is to be used for maintenance, reconstruction, and/or rehabilitation of streets, roads, and transportation infrastructure within the public right-of-way including but not limited to: sidewalks, curb and gutters, curb ramps, lighting, traffic signage, striping, and local roadway drainage. Measure T is intended to supplement, not supplant or replace, the City's existing local general fund revenues being used for transportation infrastructure maintenance. Therefore, the Measure T Ordinance (NVTA Ordinance No. 2012-01) required the City to establish a baseline Maintenance of Effort ("MOE") based on a three-year average of maintenance expenditures for fiscal years 07/08 through 09/10, and to annually certify that the City will meet the MOE for the upcoming fiscal year.
On January 16, 2018, Council established the City's baseline MOE at $3,383,221.35 For the 2021 fiscal year, the City's MOE was $3,750,975.28 which exceeded the adopted MOE by $367,753.93.
Maintenance of Effort Methodology
The City of Napa computed its Maintenance of Effort ("MOE") amount by calculating average expenditures of the General Fun...
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