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TO:Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
ATTENTION:Ryan Smoot, City Manager
FROM:Len Gorecki, Assistant City Manager/ Director of Public Works Melanie Paz, Public Works Management Analyst II
SUBJECT:Consideration and possible action to adopt Resolution No. 25-19 – A Resolution establishing the Capital Improvement Projects Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 funded by Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.
DATE:May 27, 2025
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This action would adopt Resolution No. 25-19 to establish the capital improvement projects budget specifically for the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 funded by Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 apportionment. The SB 1 RMRA budget for Fiscal Year 2025-26 includes funding for both carryover and new projects. The projects will include additional funding for the resurfacing of Alondra Boulevard between Hayter Avenue and Bellflower Boulevard and a new Annual Local Streets Resurfacing project. A City Council adopted resolution submitted to the California Transportation Commission (“CTC”) is required to receive the apportionment of Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (“RMRA”) funds from the State Controller’s Office for Fiscal Year 2025-2026.
RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL
1) Adopt Resolution No. 25-19 establishing the Capital Improvement Projects Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 funded by Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 apportionment; or
2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.
FISCAL IMPACT
The estimated RMRA allocation for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 is $2,135,689. In addition, unexpended RMRA allocations from preceding fiscal years (estimated at $9,400,000) will be carried over to Fiscal Years 2025-2027 to fund the existing and proposed RMRA projects.
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Staff Report – Resolution No. 25-19
Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 May 27, 2025
FISCAL IMPACT – Continued
The Fiscal Year 2025-2026 RMRA apportionment and carryover funds will be allocated to the following projects:
· Resurfacing of Alondra Boulevard between Hayter Avenue and Bellflower Boulevard – Total RMRA FY 2025-2026 budget will be $2,475,689 (allocated $775,689 of FY 2025-2026).
· Annual Local Streets Resurfacing Project from Alondra Boulevard to Flower Street between Lakewood Boulevard and Clark Avenue – Total RMRA FY 2025-2026 budget will be $1,360,000.
DISCUSSION
On April 28, 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill 1 (“SB 1”) known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 which created the RMRA. Unlike standard pieces of legislation – which become effective January 1 in the year following adoption – SB 1 took effect immediately.
Before receiving an apportionment of RMRA funds from the State Controller in a fiscal year, cities are required to submit to the CTC a list of budgeted projects proposed to be funded with RMRA funds.
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CITY OF BELLFLOWER
RESOLUTION NO. 25-19
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
PROJECTS BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 FUNDED BY
SENATE BILL 1: ROAD REPAIR AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF
2017
THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds and declares as follows:
A.Senate Bill 1 (2017) (“SB 1"), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor in April 2017, in order to address the significant multi-modal transportation funding shortfalls statewide.
B.The City must include a list of all projects proposed to receive funding from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (“RMRA”), created by SB 1, in the City's operating budget, which must include a description and the location of each proposed project, a proposed schedule for the project's completion, and the estimated useful life of the improvement.
C. The City will receive an estimated $2,135,689 in RMRA funding in Fiscal Year 2025-2026.
D. The City has received 8 years in SB 1 funding that has enabled the City to continue essential road maintenance and rehabilitation projects, safety improvements, repairing and replacing aging infrastructures, and increasing access and mobility options for the traveling public that would not have otherwise been possible without SB 1 funding.
E. The City has engaged the public to ensure public input in the community’s alternative transportation priorities.
F. The City uses a Pavement Management Program to help develop the SB 1 project list to ensure revenues are being used on the most high-priority and cost-effective projects.
G. The funding from SB 1 will help the City maintain and rehabilitate its streets City-wide and will contribute towards increasing the overall quality of the City’s road system over the next decade.
H. The 2023 California Statewide Local Streets and Roads Needs Assessment found that the City’s streets and roads are in an “fair” condition and this revenue will help us increase the overall quality of our road system and over the next decade will bring our streets and roads into a “satisfactory” condition.
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I.The SB1 Project list and overall investment in our local streets and roads infrastructure with a focus on basic maintenance and safety, investing in complete streets infrastructure, and using cutting edge technology, material and practices, will have a positive co-benefit statewide.
J. This Resolution is adopted based upon the evidence submitted during the May 27, 2025, City Council meeting including, without limitation, all documents presented to the City Council and public testimony.
SECTION 2.Planning Agency. Pursuant to Bellflower Municipal Code (“BMC”) § 2.32.050(F), the City Council is acting as the Bellflower Planning Agency for purposes of this Resolution. In accordance with Government Code § 65401, the Bellflower Public Works Department prepared and submitted a capital improvement plan (“CIP”) to the Planning Agency. Government Code § 65103(c) requires the Planning Agency to annually review the City’s CIP to determine whether the CIP is consistent with the Bellflower General Plan. The City Council finds that the CIP is consistent with the Bellflower General Plan, including without limitation, Policy 1.5 to utilize redevelopment funding to provide necessary transportation improvements.
SECTION 3.Environmental Assessment. The City reviewed the environmental impacts of the extension under the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq. “CEQA”) and the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regs. §§ 15000, et seq., the “CEQA Guidelines”). This activity contemplates administrative and policy decisions only. Any subsequent construction will be evaluated separately under CEQA. Accordingly, this activity is exempt from further review.
SECTION 4.Action. The City Council establishes the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 CIP Budget for a newly proposed project and previously listed projects,, which will be funded with Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account apportionment, as follows:
A. The following list of newly proposed projects will be funded in-part or solely with Fiscal Year 2025–2026 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues:
Project:Annual Local Streets Resurfacing Project
Description:Cold Mill and resurface with ARHM, remove and replace sidewalk, curb ramps, curb, gutter, drive aprons, and adjusting utilities to grade.
Location:Alondra Boulevard to Flower Street between Lakewood Boulevard and Clark Avenue.
Estimated Useful Life: 10-15 years
Est. Project Schedule: Design Phase: July 2025 – December 2025 Construction Phase: January 2026 – June 2026
Budget Amount:$1,360,000
Budget Account No.:145-51603-9000
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B. The following previously proposed and adopted project may also utilize Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues in their delivery. With the relisting of these project in the adopted fiscal year resolution, the City is reaffirming to the public and the State our intent to fund these projects with Road Maintenance Rehabilitation Account revenues:
Project:Resurfacing of Alondra Boulevard from Hayter Avenue to Bellflower Boulevard (previously listed as Resurfacing of Alondra Boulevard between Lakewood Boulevard and Bellflower Boulevard. Project scope has been expanded to the West City limit)
Description: Cold Mill and Resurface with ARHM, remove and replace sidewalk, curb ramps, curb, gutter, drive aprons, and adjusting utilities to grade.
Location: Alondra Boulevard from Hayter Avenue to Bellflower Boulevard Estimated Useful Life: 10-15 years
Est. Project Schedule: Construction: Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget Amount: $775,689 additional FY 2025-2026 RMRA funding for a total budget of $2,475,689
Budget Account No.: 145-47050-9000
SECTION 5.Repeal. To the extent that Resolution No. 24-25 and any other resolution pertaining to Establishing the Capital Improvements Projects Budget for Senate Bill 1: Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 apportionment is incorporated into this Resolution, it is superseded in its entirety.
SECTION 6.The City Manager, or designee, is directed to include in the FY 2025-2027 CIP budget the estimated Fiscal Year 2025-2026 RMRA project funding (approximately $2,135,689) and the unexpended RMRA project allocations from preceding fiscal years (approximately $9,400,000 carryover).
SECTION 7. This Resolution does not affect any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred before, or preclude prosecution and imposition of penalties for any violation occurring before, this Resolution’s effective date. Any such amended part will remain in full force and effect for sustaining action or prosecuting violations occurring before the effective date of this Resolution.
SECTION 8.Limitations.The City Council’s analysis and evaluation of the project is based on the best information currently available. It is inevitable that in evaluating a project that absolute and perfect knowledge of all possible aspects of the project will not exist. One of the major limitations on analysis of the project is the City Council’s lack of knowledge of future events. In all instances, best efforts were made to form accurate assumptions. Somewhat related to this are the limitations on the City's ability to solve what are in effect regional, state, and national problems and issues. The City must work within the political framework within which it exists and with the limitations inherent in that framework.
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SECTION 9.Reliance On Record. Each and every one of the findings and determinations in this Resolution are based on the competent and substantial evidence, both oral and written, contained in the entire record relating to the project. The findings and determinations constitute the independent findings and determinations of the City Council in all respects and are fully and completely supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole.
SECTION 10.Summaries of Information.All summaries of information in the findings, which precede this section, are based on the substantial evidence in the record. The absence of any particular fact from any such summary is not an indication that a particular finding is not based in part on that fact.
SECTION 11.Construction. This Resolution must be broadly construed to achieve the purposes stated in this Resolution. It is the City Council’s intent that the provisions of this Resolution be interpreted or implemented by the City and others in a manner that facilitates the purposes set forth in this Resolution.
SECTION 12.Severability. If any part of this Resolution or its Application is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the City Council intends that such invalidity will not affect the effectiveness of the remaining provisions or applications and, to this end, the provisions of this Resolution are severable.
SECTION 13.Electronic Signatures. This Resolution may be executed with electronic signatures in accordance with Government Code §16.5. Such electronic signatures will be treated in all respects as having the same effect as an original signature.
SECTION 14. The Mayor, or presiding officer, is authorized to affix their signature to this Resolution signifying its adoption by the City Council of the City of Bellflower, and the City Clerk, or its duly appointed deputy, is directed to attest.
SECTION 15. This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and will remain effective unless repealed or superseded. ///
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City of Bellflower
Resolution No. 25-19
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BELLFLOWER THIS 27TH DAY OF MAY 2025.
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Ray Dunton, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Mayra Ochiqui, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Karl H. Berger, City Attorney
By:________________________________
Justin A. Tamayo, Assistant City Attorney
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