OR
LIFORN
AGENDA
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
Victor P. Lopez, Mayor
Diana Guerra Silva, Mayor Pro Tem Josie Cervantes, Council Member Roy Rodriguez, Council Member Esperanza Rodriguez, Council Member WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022 - 6:00 P.M.
SENIOR CENTER
699 Gth Street, Orange Cove, California 93646
LIVE MEETING
A. l Call to Order/Welcome
Roll Call
Invocation
Flag Salute
B. Confirmation of Agenda
E. Administration
Interim City Manager:
SUBJECT: Adoption of the Fresno Council of Governments Approved Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan and Implementing Guidelines Recommendation: Council to approve Resolution No. 2022-48 Supporting the Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan
F. Public Forum
Members of the public wishing to address the City Council on an item that is not on the agenda may do so now. No action will be taken by the City Council this evening. But items presented may be referred to the City Manager for follow up and a report. In order to allow time for all comments, each individual is limited to three minutes. When addressing the Council, you are requested to come forward to the speaker's microphone, state your name and address, and then proceed with your comments.
G. City Manager's Report
H. City Attorney's Report
City Council Communications
J. Adjournment
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STATEMENT ON RULES OF DECORUM AND ENFORCEMENT
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During a meeting of the Orange Cove City Council, there is a need for civility and expedition in the carrying out of public business in order to ensure that the public has a full opportunity to be heard and that the Council has an opportunity to conduct business in an orderly manner. The following is provided to place everyone on notice of the rules of decorum and enforcement.
GENERAL RULES OF DECORUM
While any meeting of the City Council is in session, the following rules of decorum shall be observed:
1. All remarks shall be addressed to the City Council as a whole and not to any single member, unless in response to a question from a member of the City Council.
2. A person who addresses the City Council under public comment for a specific agenda item or under the Public Forum section of the agenda may not engage in speech or conduct (i) which is likely to provoke others to violent or riotous behavior, 2 (ii) which disturbs the peace of the meeting by loud and unreasonable noise, (i) which is irrelevant or repetitive, or (iv) which disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any City Council meeting.
3. A person, other than members of the Council and the person, who has the floor, shall not be permitted to enter into the discussion unless requested by the mayor to speak.
4. Members of the City Council may not interrupt a person who has the floor and is making public comments. Members of the City Council shall wait until a person completes his or her public comments before asking questions or commenting. The mayor shall then ask Councilmembers if they have comments or questions.
5. No person in the audience at a Council meeting shall engage in disorderly or boisterous conduct, including the utterance of loud, threatening or abusive language, whistling, stamping of feet or other acts which disturb, disrupt or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of any Council meeting.
ENFORCEMENT OF DECORUM RULES
(Resolution No. 2012-16)
While the City Council is in session, all persons must preserve order and decorum. A person who addresses the city council under public comment for a specific agenda item or under the Public Forum section of the agenda may not engage in speech or conduct which is likely to provoke others to violent or riotous behavior, which disturbs the peace of the meeting by loud and unreasonable noise, which is irrelevant or repetitive, or which disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any City Council meeting.
The mayor or other presiding officer shall request that a person who is breaching the rules of decorum cease such conduct. If after receiving such a warning, the person persists in breaching the rules of decorum, the mayor or other presiding officer may order the person to leave the City Council meeting. If such person does not leave, the mayor or presiding officer may request any law enforcement officer who is on duty at the meeting as sergeant-at-arms to remove the person from the Council Chambers. In the event there is no one from law enforcement present, the mayor or presiding officer may direct the City Manager to contact law enforcement.
In accordance with the Point of Order Rule 4.6, the majority of the Council may overrule the mayor if the majority of the Council believes the mayor or other presiding officer is not applying the rules of decorum appropriately.
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Agenda Item I - Approval
Attachments
MEMORANDUM
TO: Fresno County Transportation Authority
FROM: Mike Leonardo, Executive Director
DATE: July 20, 2022
SUBJECT: Adoption of the Fresno Council of Governments Approved Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan and Implementing Guidelines
RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval of Resolution 2022-08, adopting the Fresno Council of Governments (COG) approved Expenditure Plan and Implementing Guidelines BACKGROUND DISCUSSION: On August 7, 2019, the Fresno County Transportation Authority (FCTA) Board authorized staff to begin the process of seeking to renew Measure C with a target of placing the Measure on the November 2022 ballot. Included in this authorization was direction to establish an Executive Committee (EC) and a Technical Working Group (TWG) to develop a draft expenditure plan for presentation to the FCTA Board for final approval.
Staff began contacting the various public and private sector organizations to ask for volunteers to join these two committees. With rare exception, staff did not contact specific individuals but worked though agencies and organizations to identify who would serve on the two committees.
In March of 2020, the COVID epidemic hit the United States. Threat of exposure precluded FCTA and Fresno Council of Governments (Fresno COG) staff from scheduling meetings of these committees for approximately 11 months. During that time period society adapted to meeting in a virtual environment and as a result, the first meetings of these two groups were held virtually in January and February of 2021.
Simultaneous with this effort, the Fresno COG was in the process of updating and adopting their Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS). The RTP/SCS is the 20- year transportation planning document for Fresno County, while Measure C is part of how the RTP/SCS plan is implemented. As a result, the RTP/SCS became the framework for Measure C renewal.
The two committees spent much of their early meetings discussing membership and listening to background information about the Original Measure C adopted in 1986, the Measure C Extension adopted in 2006, and developing guiding principles for a potential third measure (MC3). Membership and process discussions consumed much of the committees' time in the initial months, particularly within the EC.
FCTA Special Board Meeting
July 20, 2022
Fresno COG held a number of community meetings where the RTP/SCS was discussed, and public input sought over a year's time. Measure C staff and consultants participated in these RTP meetings with discussions about what the public viewed as the highest priorities for a renewed Measure C.
In March of 2021, FCTA staff commissioned a public opinion poll to determine what County residents thought were the most pressing transportation issues, and whether or not they would support a second extension of Measure C. The results of that poll were shared with the FCTA Board and the two committees. The polling indicated very high support for renewing Measure C (80%), and that fixing local roads was clearly the highest priority, also at 80%.
In October 2021, FCTA conducted a series of in-person and online public forums specific to Measure C renewal. Staff made short presentations while the majority of the time was spent listening to members of the public discuss what they thought were the highest priorities for a third Measure C.
Simultaneousiy, FCTA also launched an online survey for the purpose of gathering similar data. To date staff has received 2,804 responses with very similar results. FCTA staff and consultants also conducted in person door to door contacts with residents in Cantua Creek, Lenare, Tranquility, Orange Cove, Parlier, Kerman, Mendota, Caruthers, Coalinga, Del Rey, Five Points, Huron, Sanger, Kingsburg, and San Joaquin. Approximately 1,070 surveys were completed by Spanish speakers. The public meetings, online surveys, and in-person contacts all conveyed the same basic messages as the polling; fixing roads was the number one priority.
Beginning with the needs assessment performed by Fresno COG through the RTP/SCS process, staff began drafting alternative proposals for Measure C 3 funding. Four alternatives were initially presented to the TWG. Of these four, two had a significant level of support within the TWG. These two alternatives were later refined by the TWG.
During this process FCTA and Fresno COG staff also met with representatives from Fresno County, the City of Fresno and the City of Clovis to discuss the framework of the preferred alternatives the TWG was considering. While by no means diminishing the importance of the small cities, it was felt that Fresno, Clovis, and Fresno County support of a proposed plan was critical in order to obtain its eventual endorsement by both the TWG and EC. Based upon these meetings, modifications were made to the preferred alternative then being considered by the TWG. These modifications increased the Transit and Local Control subprograms. Specifically, the increase in the Local Control Program was intended to allow each agency to best tailor their Measure C expenditures to their unique and specific needs. This flexibility was especially critical for the City of Fresno who wanted to use some of their Local Control Program money to further increase funds dedicated to public transit.
The TWG considered and approved this allocation plan by a substantial majority. This approved plan was then sent to the EC for their consideration.
The EC also considered and approved the plan as submitted by the TWG. During this consideration and approval process, a second series of public meetings were conducted to once again listen to people's concerns about transportation in Fresno County. A second opinion poll was also conducted resulting in nearly identical results from the first poll.
FCTA Special Board Meeting
July 20, 2022
Once the EC adopted the draft allocation plan, staff used the proposed allocation plan as adopted by the EC and TWG, to develop a detailed draft Expenditure Plan and a set of Implementing Guidelines. The Expenditure Plan was posted for public review on May 27, 2022, and the Implementing Guidelines were posted about a week later. Staff received a number of written and verbal comments on the plan and guidelines. Many of the suggested revisions were incorporated while some were not. Comments not included in the plan tended to be in conflict with the allocation plan adopted by the EC and TWG. The public comment period closed on June -27, 2022 and a final draft revision of the draft plan and guidelines was posted on June 29, 2022.
The plan was to be presented to the Fresno Council of Governments Policy Board for their approval, which was then to be followed by presentation to the FCTA Board for their proposed adoption. Fresno COG was scheduled to consider the plan on June 30, 2022 with FCTA foliowing on July 20. The June 30, 2022 meeting of Fresno COG was ultimately cancelled due to technical difficulties and was rescheduled for July 7, 2022.
CITY OF FRESNO PROPOSAL
In mid-June, FCTA and Fresno COG staff made a presentation to the Fresno City Council on the EC/TWG approved plan. Shortly after that presentation, staff was made aware that the City of Fresno would not support the EC/TWG Plan as currently written. Through a series of meetings, the last one held on the morning of June 30, 2022 - a few hours before Fresno COG was to consider adoption of the EC/TWG plan - FCTA and Fresno COG staff agreed that the substantially revised proposal submitted by the City (that morning) had merit as it closely followed the EC/TWG plan with a few minor revisions. These revisions included:
1. Allowing sidewalk repairs to be funded through the Local Neighborhood and Street Repair and Maintenance Program (Street Repair Program)
2. Revising the distribution of these street repairs funds from 75% population - 25% road miles to 80% - 20% (later revised to 78% - 22%)
3. Revise the distribution of the Local Control Program funds to 100% population based
4. Establish an annual $100,000 minimum allocation within the Street Repair Program for each of the 16 agencies in Fresno County
5. Change a few of the projects included in the City of Fresno's portion of the Tier 1 Major Roads and Highway Program
6. Limit Urban Transit Oriented Development (TOD) funding to certain high-density and transit corridor requirements
7. Include local hiring preference language
The end result of these changes was that each of the 15 cities in Fresno County would get slightly more funding (approximately 5% to 20% with the smallest cities experiencing the largest percentage increase) while Fresno County would receive about $187 million less over the life of the Measure.
After considerable public and Board discussion, the Fresno COG Policy Board approved the EC/TWG plan as modified by the City of Fresno.
FCTA Special Board Meeting
July 20, 2022
On July 12, 2022, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors also considered the plan adopted by Fresno COG. All Board members expressed concern with the lower Fresno County allocation and with the last- minute changes requested by the City of Fresno; however, after much discussion the Board adopted the plan as previously approved by Fresno COG.
APPROVED PLAN
With these approvals in place, it is now incumbent on the FCTA Board to consider adoption of the plan approved by the Fresno COG Policy Board. A full copy of both the Expenditure Plan and Implementing Guidelines are included in this Board package. In summary, the approved plan provides total projected revenue over 30 years of $6,835,044,756 or approximately $7 Billion.
Distribution by Sub-Program
Subprogram Percentage Allocation
Local and Neighborhood Street Repair and Maintenance 51% $3,511,000,000 Local Control 18% $1,208,794,520
Urban and Rural Public Transit 12% $811,953,000
Safe Bikes and Pedestrians 1% $75,524,940
Major Roads and Highways, Safety Improvement and 15% $997,713,440 Congestion Relief
Environmental Sustainability 2% $144,000,000
Administration 1.25% $86,058,856
Distribution by Agency (as modified by the City of Fresno proposal) Agency Allocation Agency Allocation
(Millions) (Millions)
Clovis $519.2 Mendota $53.8
Coalinga $69.2 Orange Cove $44.1
Firebaugh $36.9 Parlier $67.6
Fowler $29.4 Reedley $67.6
Fresno $2,210.7 San Joaquin $20.6
Huron $28.3 Sanger $120.1
Kerman $71.0 Selma $107.4
Kingsburg $61.9 Fresno County $1,130.2
FCTA Special Board Meeting
July 20, 2022
In addition, the other changes proposed by the City of Fresno were incorporated into the Expenditure Plan and Implementing Guidelines except for the revised TOD criteria, which must still be developed by Fresno, Clovis, and Fresno COG staff. This revised criterial will be included in the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) to be developed. Specific language on local hiring preferences will also need to be developed and included in the SIP.
CONCLUSION:
The overall transportation needs in Fresno County exceed the revenues that can be generated through a ½ cent sales tax. However, this plan makes substantial progress towards meeting a high percentage of these needs. Specifically, this plan will:
• Allow the entire county to fix potholes and repair streets, reaching an average Pavement Condition Index of 70, which is within the "Good" category, thus reducing future maintenance costs, decreasing user costs, improving safety for vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians, and improving air quality
• Dedicates funds to disadvantaged communities and areas, including a $100,000 minimum allocation, which will help the smaller cities in the County, and dedication of no less than 30% of the street repair funds to disadvantaged areas
• Provides over $1 billion in Local Control sub program funding so that each agency can best meet their transportation needs. This could include additional road repairs, enhanced transit funding, additional Active transportation projects, or any other eligible transportation facility or service • Provides over $800 million to the three transit agencies in Fresno County; an increase of 180% over the current transit allocation
• In conjunction with other identified funding sources, meets 95% of the overall active transportation need established through the 2022 RTP/SCS process • Helps address safety issues and congestion choke points on the urban and rural highways and major road systems
• Dedicates $144 million specifically for environmental enhancements beyond those specifically included in the other subprograms
• Collectively will improve pavement, improve safety, reduce congestion, improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, consistent with the RTP/SCS This plan will be beneficial for Fresno County as a whole and good for each and every city within Fresno County.
RESOLUTION NO. 2022-48
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ORANGE COVE
SUPPORTING THE MEASURE C RENEWAL EXPENDITURE PLAN
WHEREAS, since 1986 Measure C has provided funds to improve transportation throughout Fresno County, including the City of Orange Cove; and
WHEREAS, in the 20 years since approved by the voters in 2006, Measure C has or will have provided over $600 million in Local Control funding that the cities in Fresno County, and Fresno County itself, have used to improve streets, sidewalks, and other transportation facilities and services; and
WHEREAS, Measure C has improved state highways throughout Fresno County, including those used extensively by Orange Cove residents; and
WHEREAS, Measure C provides or will provide nearly $300 million for public transit throughout Fresno County including urban services within the Fresno Clovis metro area, and rural services in the smaller communities and unincorporated areas; and WHEREAS, currently available funding has not been sufficient to address all critical transportation issues in the City of Orange Cove; and
WHEREAS, two committees with broad representation across Fresno County developed a proposed plan to extend Measure C another 30 years; and WHEREAS; on July 7, 2022, the Fresno Council of Governments (COG) approved this proposed Expenditure Plan; and
WHEREAS, on July 20, 2022, the Fresno County Transportation Authority (FCTA) adopted the Expenditure Plan approved by COG; and
WHEREAS, this Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan, upon approval of the ballot measure by voters, is projected to provide nearly $5 billion over 30 years to the 15 cities and Fresno County for local transportation improvements, as determined by each City Council or the Board of Supervisors; and
WHEREAS, the Expenditure Plan is projected to provide over $3.5 billion to fix local roads and repair sidewalks, $812 million for urban and rural public transit, $76 million for safe bikes and pedestrians, $998 million for major roads and highways safety improvements and congestion relief, $144 million for environmental sustainability projects, and over $1.2 billion in Local Control funding for addition street repairs, enhanced transit, additional bike lanes and sidewalks, and many other transportation projects and services; and WHEREAS, under this Expenditure Plan, the City of Orange Cove will receive $_ _ in direct local transportation funding
NOW, THEREFORE,
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the _ City Council recognizes the benefits Measure C has brought to _ and is in support of renewing Measure C for an additional 30 years in order to continue to improve transportation facilities and services in the City of , and in Fresno County as a whole; and
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that, by adoption of this resolution, the City of approves the Expenditure Plan previously approved and adopted by COG and FCTA.
The foregoing Resolution is duly adopted on , 2022, by the following votes:
AYES COUNCIL MEMBERS
NOES COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSTAIN COUNCIL MEMBERS
ABSENT COUNCIL MEMBERS
→ Mayor of the
City of
ATTEST
, City Clerk
Fresno County Transportation Authority
Fresno Council of Governments
Measure C Renewal - MC3
MEASURE
PROMISES MADE. PROMISES KEPT.
Addressing Our
Transportation
Needs
• August 7, 2019, FCTA Board authorized beginning the process of renewing Measure C (MC3)
Background • Targeted placement of the Measure on the November 2022 ballot • Established an Executive Committee and a Technical Working Group • Presented the Plan to the FCTA Board for final approval on July 20, 2022
MEASURE MEASURE C • SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
MEASURE C EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
David Cardenas, Mayor, Fowler/Co-Chair-EASTSIDE
Lynne Ashbeck, Mayor Pro Tem, Clovis/Co-Chair-METRO
Vong Mouanotoua, Councilmember, Clovis-METRO
Jerry Dyer, Mayor, Fresno-METRO, Gregory Barfield, Alternate Ell Ontiveros, Mayor, Sanger-EASTSIDE
Gary Yep, Mayor, Kerman-WESTSIDE
Rolando Castro, Mayor, Mendota-WESTSIDE (Small Business Owner in Mendota Paul Nerland, County of Fresno-COUNTY
Sheriff Margaret Mims-COUNTY
Chief Greg Tarascou, Sanger Fire/Emergency Medical
BUSINESS/LABOR/ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/CIVICSECTORS
= Lee Ann Eager, EDC-CIVIC
Scott Miller, Fresno Chamber-CIVIC
Thilani Grubel, Bitwise-BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY, Jake Soberal, Alternate Debbie Hunsaker, Alert O Lite-BUSINESS
Ryan Jacobsen, Farm Bureau-AG
Lorna Roush, Schultz Ranch-AG
Roger Van Gronigen, Van G Trucking-GOODS MOVEMENT
Chuck Riojas, Central CA Labor Council
James Hammond, Laborers Local #294 OE #3-Additional Labor Rep
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS/ADVOCATES/NOT-FOR-PROFITS
Renewal Plan Executive Committee Linda Hayes, EOC Board of Directors-HUMAN SERVICES Artie Padilla, CVCF-PHILANTHROPY/SERVICE
Sarah Harris, Resources for Independence Central Valley -DISABILITY SERVICES Resulted from Request to Gayle Holman, Community Medical System-HEALTHCARE/SERVICE Cinthya Arriaga, YLI-YOUTH/ADVOCACY - Alternate: D'Aungillique Jackson Expand the Committee Mark Keppler, Clovis Community Foundation/Active Transportation/ ADVOCACY Veronica Garibay, CBO/ADVOCACY
Letecia Valencia, CBO/Faith/ADVOCACY
17 Meetings Sandra Celedon-CBO/ADVOCACY
Nayamin Martinez-CBO/Environmenta//ADVOCACY
EDUCATION
Or. Aly Tawfik, Transportation Institute, Fresno State-INNOVATION/RESEARCH/HIGHER ED Note: Additional members were added in Ruby Duran, Dept. of Counseling Chair, Reedley College & Central Valley Latino Leaders Academy Eric Cedarquist, Superintendent, Fowler Unified School District (retired) response to requests from Community Advocates
FCTA City of Clovis
Active Transportation
FCOG City of Coalinga
Agriculture
Fresno County BOS City of Firebaugh Broad-Based Business City of Fresno City of Fowler Building Development
City of Clovis City of Fresno Education
Eastside Cities City of Huron Environment
Westside Cities City of Kerman Community Based Organizations Business City of Kingsburg Community Based Organizations Education City of Mendota Goods Movement
Agriculture City of Orange Cove Measure C Citizen Oversight Construction City of Parlier Committee
Labor City of Reedley New Technology
Transportation/Goods City of San Joaquin Public Health Advocate Movement City of Sanger ADA/Seniors
Emergency Services City of Selma Aviation
Community Based County of Fresno San Construction
Renewal Plan Organizations Joaquin Valley Air District Emergency Services/Public Technical Working Health Caltrans Safety
Group Public Transportation Fresno COG
Urban FCTA
22 Meetings Public Transportation Rural
Labor
• 2022 Regional
Transportation
Needs Plan/Sustainable
Communities Strategy
Assessment (RTP/SCS)
• Countywide Pavement
Condition Survey
• Other Funding Sources
Identified
• Funding Gaps Identified
MEASURE MEASURE C. SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
Revenue 30 Year -- $6.8 billion
Projections
Public Engagement Strategies
• 14 Workshops and Community Meetings • Community Events • Door to Door; 1,070 Spanish responses - • Virtual Meetings Cantua Creek, Lanare, Tranquillity, Orange • Online & In-Person Surveys; 2,800 Cove, Parlier, Kerman, Caruthers, Biola, surveys, 2,000 comments Hmong Community, Coalinga, Del Rey, Five • 2 Public Opinion Polls - Just Short of Points, Huron, Sanger, Kingsburg, San 5,500 responses
Joaquin, Punjabi Community
MEASURE MEASURE C • SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
Sample Size: 2,465 1st, 2,988 2nd
Voter Opinion Poll Poll #1 Taken: 2/11/21 - 3/16/22
Poll #2 Taken: 3/15/22 - 4/18/22
Slightly more than three-quarters initially support a Fresno Transportation Continuation Measure regardless of the duration, with roughly half saying they would definitely vote yes. (Each Duration MOE = +/-4.7%; Total MOE = +/-2.7%)
Until Ended
20 Years 30 Years Total
by Voters
Definitely yes 54% 53%
Total Total Total 53%
Probably yes 23% 77% Yes 25% 79% Total
Yes 23% 76% Yes 23% 76% Yes
80% 81% 80%
undecided 4% 2% 4% 80%
3%
Undecided, 1% 1%
lean no Total Total 1%
Total Total
Probably no 4% No No 5% No
17% 5% No
16% 17% 16%
Definitely no 11% 9% 11%
10%
Undecided 3% 4% 4%
FM3 3%
RESEARCH •O. Based on this description, would you vote yes in favor of the measure or no to oppose it? Keeping local roads and transportation infrastructure in good condition, repairing potholes, creating local jobs, keeping bus fares low, and upgrading structurally declining bridges/overpasses are among voters' top priorities.
(Ranked by Very Important: 6-7)
• Very Impt. (6-7) • Smwt. Impt. (5) = Neutral (4) • Not Too/Not at All Impt. (1-3) • Don't Know Mean Score
Keeping local roads in good
condition 81% 8% 5% 5% 6.3
Repairing potholes 81%
8% 5% 6.3
Repairing potholes in every
neighborhood of Fresno County,
including rural and historically 77% 10% 5% 6% 6.2
disadvantaged neighborhoods
Keeping local roads in
neighborhood of fresno County.
76% 11% 5% 7% 6.1
including rural and historically
disadvantaged neighborhoods
2. 1am going to mention some features and provisions of the proposed Fresno County Transportation Continuation Measure we are discussing. Regardless of your opinion of the measure, please tell me how F M3 measure extension and 2 means it would be VERY IMPORTANT Split Same important it is to you that the feature or provision be included as part of the measure. We will use a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 means NOT AT ALL IMPORTANT to you that the feature or provision is included in the
RESEARCH
Continued
(Ranked by Very Important: 6-7)
• Very Impt. (6-7) • Smwt. Impt. (5) • Neutral (4) • Not Too/Not at All Impt. (1-3) • Don't Know Mean
Score
Creating local jobs 73% 11% 7% 9%
6.0 Keeping public transit bus fares
low for students, seniors, 73% 10% 6% 11%
veterans and the disabled 5.9
Upgrading structurally declining
bridges and overpasses 72% 13% 6% 8% 6.0
Keeping the local transportation
infrastructure in good condition 72% 13% 6% 7% 6.0
Improving highway and
freeway safety 71% 11% 7% 10% 5.9
Adding lanes on highways and
freeways to reduce bottlenecks
and provide a safe way to merge 69% 13% 7% 11% 5.8
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RESEARCH
Greatest Fixing Local
Remaining Need Roads
Allocation Principles
Local Choice, No
Local Control Flexibility Fix it First Neighborhood Improve Safety Equity
Left Behind
INNOVATION
BUS
AHEAD + STOP
MEASURE
MEASURE C • SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
Allocations
BY PROGRAM
Percent of Total
Need Meet by
Measure C Renewal Program Percent of 30-Year Funding All Funding Total Estimate Sources
Including
Measure C
Local & Neighborhood Street Repair &
Maintenance 51% 3,511,000,000
64%
Local Control 18%
1,208,794,520 89%
Safe Bikes and Pedestrians (Including Safe
Routes to School & Access for People with
Disabilities) 1% 75,524,940 95%
Urban & Rural Public Transit 12% 811,953,000 96%
Major Roads & Highways, Safety Improvement
and Congestion Relief 15% 997,713,440 70%
Environmental Sustainability 2% 144,000,000 N/A
Administration 1% 86,058,856 N/A
Total: 100% 6,835,044,756
MEASURE MEASURE C • SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
Measure C 3
Measure C 3
Approval Process
Public review of the Draft Measure C Renewal
Expenditure Plan began on May 27, 2022 and ended on Fresno County Transportation Authority Board Approved June 27, 2022 the Plan on July 20, 2022
7 July
27 May - 27 June 20 July
Fresno Council of Governments Board Adopted the Plan
on July 7, 2022
MEASURE MEASURE C• SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
City of Fresno Revisions to
• Allows sidewalk repairs to be funded through the Street the TWG/EC Plan Repair and Maintenance Program
• Revises the distribution of these street repairs funds from 75% population - 25% road miles to 80% -- 20% (later
revised to 78% -- 22%)
• Revises the distribution of the Local Control Program funds to 100% population based
• Establishes an annual $100,000 minimum allocation within the Street Repair and Maintenance Program for each of the 16 agencies in Fresno County
• Changes a few of the projects included in Fresno's portion of the Tier 1 Major Roads and Highway Program
• Limits Urban Transit Oriented Development (TOD) funding End result: Cities received greater local to certain high-density and transit corridor requirements allocations with the smallest cities seeing increases between 5% to 20% higher. Fresno
• Includes local hiring preference language County's allocation was reduced by $187 Million or 14%
Fresno COG Approved Plan
TWG/EC
Local Flow Thru Committee Recommendation COG Approved Plan Difference
Agency
Clovis 496,660,395 10.36% 519,210,059
10.83% $22,549,664
Coalinga 69,196,730 1.44% 74,562,264
1.55% $5,365,534
Firebaugh 32,379,516 0.68% 36,943,730
0.77% $4,564,214
Fowler 29,414,298 0.61% 32,599,858 0.68%
Fresno $3,185,560
2,210,712,853 46.10% 2,307,800,260 48.13% $97,087,407
Huron 28,275,367 0.59% 33,128,585
Kerman 0.69% $4,853,218
65,270,367 1.36% 71,008,461 1.48% $5,738,094
Kingsburg 58,709,643 1.22% 61,935,554 1.29%
Mendota $3,225,911
47,821,219 1.00% 53,838,196 1.12% $6,016,977
Orange Cove 39,791,905 0.83% 44,073,084 0.92%
Parlier $4,281,179
60,804,739 1.27% 67,641,387 1.41% $6,836,648
Reedley 107,393,155 2.24% 114,213,410 2.38%
San Joaquin $6,820,255
16,972,795 0.35% 20,611,555 0.43% $3,638,760
Sanger 113,431,849 2.37% 120,149,116 2.51%
Selma $6,717,267
100,787,707 2.10% 107,380,167 2.24% $6,592,460
County of Fresno 1,317,696,922 27.48% 1,130,223,774 23.57% ($187,473,148)
TOTAL 4,795,319,460 100.00% 4,795,319,460
100.00% $0
MEASURE MEASURE C • SHARING YOUR TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
Measure C 3
30 Year Revenue Changes
Based on Fresno COG Approved Plan
Agency Increased Revenues over
Agency Increased Revenues over
30 Years for Street Repairs, 30 Years for Street Repairs, Flexible Funds (Local
Flexible Funds (Local
Control)
Control)
Clovis $22.5 million (+4.5%)
Mendota $6.0 million (+12.6%)
Coalinga $5.4 million (+7.8%)
Orange Cove $4.3 million (+10.8%)
Firebaugh $4.6 million (+14.1%)
Parlier $6.8 million (+11.2%)
Fowler $3.2 million (+10.8%)
Reedley $76.8 million (+6.4%)
Fresno $97 million (+4.4%)
San Joaquin $3.6 million (+21.4%)
Huron $4.8 million (+17.2%)
Sanger $6.7 million (+5.9%)
Kerman $5.7 million (+8.8%)
Selma $6.6 million (+6.5%)
Kingsburg $3.2 million (+5.5%)
Fresno County: Decreased Revenues
$187 million (-14.2%)
Major Roads &
Highways
Program
• Provides Connectivity Between Communities
• Improvements to Fresno Airports
• Improves Mobility: Addition of Travel Lanes,
Passing Lanes, Interchanges, & Other Major
Improvements
• Urban Tier 1 Project List:
25 Local & State Hwy Projects totaling $833 M
• Rural Tier 1 Project List:
20 Local & State Hwy Projects totaling $ 320 M
• Urban Tier 2 Project List:
31 Local & State Hwy Projects totaling $1.592 B
• Rural Tier 2 Project List
14 Local & State Hwy Projects totaling $415 M
Proposed Plan
• Allow the entire county to fix potholes & repair streets, reaching an average Pavement Condition Index of 70,
which is within the "Good" category
• Dedicate no less than 30% of the street repair funds to disadvantaged areas, and proved a minimum $100,000
street repair allocation to each agency
• Provide over $1 billion in Local Control funding so that each agency can best meet their transportation needs
• Provide over $800 million to the three transit agencies; 180% of current transit allocations
• Meet 95% of the overall active transportation need
• Help address safety issues & congestion choke points
• Dedicate $144 million for environmental enhancements
Recommendation
Council Approval of the FCOG
and FCTA Expenditure Plan &
Implementing Guidelines
2022
Measure C
Renewal
Expenditure
Plan
Implementing Guidelines
FINAL
JULY 20, 2022
MEASURE
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CONTENTS
Introduction and Purpose
Guideline Amendments
Program Management
Performance Indicators and Measurements
Reporting Requirements
Local Hiring Preference
Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan Programs 6
Local & Neighborhood Street Repair & Maintenance 8
Purpose 8
Eligible Agencies 8
Program Implementation 8
Performance Indicators 9
Definitions 9
Funding Allocation 10
Other Requirements 11
Eligible Projects/Programs 11
Local Control 12
Introduction/Purpose 12
Implementing Agencies 12
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Program Disbursement Process/Requirements 12
Performance Indicators 12
Eligible Projects/Programs 13
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Timely Use of Funds 14
Other Requirements 14
Reporting Requirements 14
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2 Urban and Rural Public Transit 15
Overview/Purpose 15
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Implementing Agencies 15
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Measure C Program Disbursement Process/Requirements 16
Eligible Projects/Programs 16
Other Requirements 17
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Performance Indicators 17
Safe Bikes and Pedestrians 18
Overview/Purpose 18
Implementing Agencies 18
Disbursement Process/Requirements 18
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Master Plan Requirements 19
Exemptions 19
Allowed Accumulation of Earmark Funds Over Five (5) Years 19 ...
Eligible Projects/Programs 19
Allocations for Active Transportation Facilities 20
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Class I, Il, Ill, and IV Definitions and Eligibility Requirements 20 .....
Requirements Applying to All Facilities Utilizing Any Measure C Program Funds 22 Maintained Pedestrian or Bicycle Facilities 23
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Exceptions to the Requirements 23
Flexibility if Needs Are Met 24
Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Maintenance 24
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Performance Indicators 24
Major Roads & Highways, Safety Improvement & Congestion Relief 25 ....
Purpose 25
Eligible Agencies 25
Program Implementation 25
3 Definitions 25
Eligible Project Lists 25
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Flexibility and Plan Modifications 26
Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee Program (RTMF) 26 Funding Allocations 27
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Other Requirements 28
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Performance Indicators and Measures 28
Environmental Sustainability 29
Funding Disbursement Process/Requirements 30
Eligible Projects and Programs 30
Eligible Investments 31
Project Requirements 32
Other Requirements 33
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Performance Indicators and Measures 34
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Citizen Oversight Committee 34
Committee Purpose 34
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Administrative Issues 34
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Membership Selection 35
For More Information 37
INTRODUCTION • General purpose of each Measure O
Renewal Program.
AND PURPOSE
• Implementing agencies or those agencies
responsible for implementing the Renewal
These Implementing Guidelines have been
Program and eligible to receive associated
prepared to help guide implementation of
Measure C funding.
the Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan.
The Renewal Expenditure Plan was prepared to • Important definitions of related program specify how the slightly more than $6.84 billion requirements, methods, or other processes. in transportation funds, generated through
• The percentage of Measure C Renewal
continuation of Fresno County's half-cent
funding and the initial amount of funding
transportation sales tax over the next 30 years, allocated to each Renewal Program. will be allocated to the various transportation
• Other requirements specific
programs. Specifically, these Guidelines will
ensure that promises made to Fresno County to each Renewal Program. voters will be kept through a set of requirements • The list of eligible projects for which specific to each Expenditure Plan Program. Measure C Renewal funding can be claimed.
Following approval of the Renewal Guideline Amendments
Expenditure Plan and these Guidelines
Revisions or amendments to these
and beginning in 2027 and every two (2)
years thereafter, the Measure C Renewal Implementing Guidelines shall follow the same amendment process established for the
Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) will
Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan under
be prepared. The SIP will further detail
implementation requirements, provide more Administration, Expenditure Plan Amendments. specifics regarding actual Measure C Renewal
Program Management
proceeds by program, amendments to these
Guidelines, reporting, monitoring, claims and If approved by the voters, this Measure C disbursement processes, and provide further Renewal will require substantially more clarity on project eligibility, performance monitoring, analysis, and reporting than the indicators and measures. The Guidelines current Measure. The Authority may seek the will aid the Fresno County Transportation assistance of a program management firm and/ Authority (FCTA or Authority), Fresno or additional staff. The primary responsibility Council of Governments (Fresno COG), of enhanced program management would be sixteen (16) local agencies, and other to assist with the development and monitoring responsible agencies with information of performance measures as discussed in including the following: the Renewal Expenditure Plan and in these 5 Implementing Guidelines. Enhanced Program Reporting Requirements Management could also include managing
projects contained within the Major Roads and • Agencies will submit to the Authority on an Highways, Safety Improvement and Congestion annual basis the list of completed projects that utilized Measure C Renewal Program
Relief Program, and other responsibilities
necessary for efficient and effective funding for some or all of the project costs. implementation of the various programs. • Agencies that utilize some or all of the Enhanced program management responsibilities Local Control Program funds for services are part of program and project delivery and will identify how these funds were used as a separate from Program Administration. part of their annual report to the Authority. • Other required reporting and monitoring
Performance Indicators
requirements will be included in the Renewal
and Measurements
Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP).
Once the Measure C Renewal Plan and
Implementing Guidelines have been approved Local Hiring Preference by Fresno COG and adopted by the Authority, Measure C funded projects provide direct staff will begin working with each of the local and indirect economic benefits to the County and other interested agencies and individuals to
through investments in infrastructure and
develop performance measures specific to each related economic activities associated with of the Renewal Programs. These Guidelines
construction projects. Measure C projects
include identification of performance indicators
will provide good paying jobs to Fresno
for each Renewal Program. Subcommittees will
County businesses and residents. FCTA and
be formed to further identify indicators and to Fresno COG, working in connection with the develop performance measures for each of the
member agencies, will develop reasonable local
Renewal Programs. hiring and contracting goals to help insure Collection of data will be key to measuring those benefits are maximized. These goals performance and evaluating trends. will be included in the Measure C Strategic Transportation data will also be useful for Implementation Plan prior to July 1, 2027. agencies or groups involved in transportation
Measure C Renewal
research. In addition to the data collected for
Expenditure Plan Programs
performance indicators and measures, there
will be other data requirements that will be The following sections include details regarding included in the SIP. each of the individual Renewal Programs. Each program has a different set of requirements and
processes given the transportation needs and
6 goals each are to address over the next 30-years. URBAN AND RURAL PUBLIC
TRANSIT PROGRAM
Programs included in these Guidelines include
The Urban and Rural Public Transit Program
the following:
will address public transit systems and services
LOCAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD throughout the County including Fresno Area
STREET REPAIR AND
MAINTENANCE PROGRAM Express (FAX), Clovis Transit, and the Fresno The Local and Neighborhood Street Repair and County Rural Transit Agency (FCRTA).
Maintenance program is intended to bring the SAFE BIKES AND road systems within the 15 incorporated cities PEDESTRIANS PROGRAM and the rural unincorporated areas of Fresno Including Safe Routes to School & Access for People with Disabilities
County, including arterials, collectors, and
neighborhood streets, to an average Pavement This program will address improvements and Condition Index (PCI) of 70, which is within safety enhancements for bicyclists and pedestrians, including students, seniors and people with
the "Good" category as measured by engineers
though a Pavement Management System disabilities, as well as other related improvements. (PMS), which is defined as a set of procedures MAJOR ROADS AND HIGHWAYS, for collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and SAFETY IMPROVEMENT AND reporting pavement data, to assist decision CONGESTION RELIEF PROGRAM makers in finding optimum strategies for This program will address the funding and maintaining pavements in serviceable condition implementation of projects in the Urban (Clovis over a given period of time for the least cost. and Fresno Spheres of Influence) and Rural (remaining County and rural incorporated cities)
LOCAL CONTROL PROGRAM areas. Such projects will be located along the The 16 local agencies (cities and the county) State Highway System and along major corridors in Fresno County will utilize these funds to enhance connections within the urban area to address their highest priority unique and between the cities and rural communities transportation needs including improved safety, throughout the County. enhanced public transit services, additional
local street and highway maintenance and ENVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM
other street and road improvements, pedestrian, This Program includes clean transportation trail, and bicycle facilities improvements, safe projects and programs, transit-oriented routes to school improvements, and other
development and Opportunity Corridor projects,
transportation services and programs.
and other projects that will improve air quality,
address climate change and improve health.
7 ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM The current countywide PCI is approximately This program includes administration and 60 and raising it to a PCI of 70 will cost planning activities of the Fresno County approximately $3.2 billion over 20 years.
Transportation Authority (Authority) and the If this goal is not accomplished within 20 years, Fresno Council of Governments. the cost will escalate, primarily due to more roadways falling into disrepair.
Specifics regarding the Citizen Oversight
Committee are also included at the end of In order to reach this average PCI goal, agencies these Guidelines. must also perform preventative maintenance to prevent roads in "Good" condition from
degrading into "Fair" or "Poor" condition.
The $3.2 billion cost includes funding for
LOCAL & preventative maintenance treatments for roads
currently in good condition, as well as funds for
NEIGHBORHOOD rebuilding failing roads.
STREET REPAIR &
Eligible Agencies
MAINTENANCE
Eligibility is limited to the 15 incorporated cities
Purpose and Fresno County. Distribution of these funds is based on a formula of 78% population and 22%
The Local and Neighborhood Street Repair
road miles. Fresno COG will be eligible for the cost
and Maintenance Program (Local Street Repair
associated with performing the triennial Pavement
Program) is intended to bring the road systems
Management System surveys and reports.
within the 15 incorporated cities and the
rural unincorporated areas of Fresno County, Program Implementation including arterials, collectors, and neighborhood
streets, to an average Pavement Condition Index Each agency must determine how to manage (PCI) of 70, which is within the "Good" category. their road systems using a combination of road Repairing, rebuilding, and maintaining the road repair and preventative maintenance strategies. system will have long-term benefits for future In order to assist with that effort, a triennial generations of Fresno County residents. A road countywide pavement condition survey (PCS) system in "Good" condition is very economical will be conducted, with the results furnished to maintain with a 2022 estimated cost of $4.50 to each agency. Funding for these surveys will per square yard (SY) of pavement. Allowing our come from this Local Street Repair Program. road system to remain in Fair or Poor condition The agencies will then be required to develop has a much higher cost of $22 to $60 per SY. an annual Capital Improvement Program that addresses their pavement repair and maintenance
8 strategies (updated triennially in conjunction Performance Indicators with the pavement survey. These 5-year Capital
Performance indicators include,
Improvement Programs will be submitted to
but are not limited to the following:
FCTA as they are updated. Development and
implementation of the pavement repair strategies • Pavement Condition Index (PCI). is an eligible expense within this Local Street • Funds expended consistent with Local Repair Program. Street Repair Program requirements.
The FCTA Board will use these plans and the • Percentage of funds expended triennial pavement survey to evaluate progress in disadvantaged areas. towards the 70 PCI goal. • Amount of funds bonded and advanced.
Independent financial audits of the Local • Lane miles paved by classification (arterial, Street Repair Program will be performed collector, neighborhood street). annually to verify that funds were expended • Timely use of funds. consistent with these Program requirements.
Agencies found to be out of compliance may • Matching funds obtained. be subject to withholding of Program funds
Definitions
until appropriate reimbursements are made.
Funding within the Local Street Repair
Every 3 years there will be a compliance Program must be utilized exclusively for street evaluation where jurisdictions must show
maintenance, repair, or rehabilitation as defined
how they have spent their Local Street Repair by Assembly Bill (AB) 2928 language for local Program funds, however, agencies are allowed
agency allocations under Proposition 42:
accumulate funds for up to 6-years if needed
for match purposes or for a large project. • Funds allocated to a city, county.... shall be used only for street and highway maintenance,
If an agency is not in compliance with the 6-year rehabilitation, reconstruction, and storm requirement, the Authority may withhold funds damage repair. For purposes of this section, the until the jurisdiction is compliant. Repeated non- following terms have the following meanings:
compliance may be subject to reallocation of
funds as determined by the Authority Board. • "Maintenance" means either or both of the following:
- Patching.
- Overlay and sealing.
9 "Reconstruction" includes any overlay, sealing, sources including non-Measure C funding or or widening of the roadway, if the widening is Measure C funding from the Local Control necessary to bring the roadway width to the Program can be combined with these Local desirable minimum width consistent with the Street Repair Program funds in order to address geometric design criteria of the department the entire roadway prism under one project. for 3-R (reconstruction, resurfacing, and It is highly recommended that this "combined rehabilitation) projects that are not on a funding" approach be utilized whenever freeway but does not include widening for feasible in order to provide the best overall the purpose of increasing the traffic capacity complete street system for neighborhoods and of a street or highway. to reduce overall costs though combining work under a single contract.
"Storm damage repair" is repair or reconstruction
of local streets and highways and related drainage Roadway restriping in order to repurpose improvements that have been damaged due to existing travel lanes for bicycle facilities as a part winter storms and flooding, and reconstruction of a pavement repair project is allowable as long of drainage improvements to mitigate future as it does not increase the overall paved width. roadway flooding and damage problems,
in those jurisdictions that have been declared Funding Allocation disaster areas by the President of the United States. The Local Streets Repair Program consists of These Local Street Repair Program funds 51% of Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan revenues estimated to be $3.5 billion over the 30-
are limited to repairs and maintenance on
the existing roadway and shoulder structural year Measure. This slightly exceeds the projected section. Repairs to adjacent curb and gutter pavement repair need of $3.2 billion by $300 can be included where necessary to maintain million; however, the $3.2 billion cost was based proper street drainage. Installation of new on reaching a PCI of 70 within 20 years, while the sidewalks, bike lanes, or curbs and gutters $3.5 billion in revenue will occur over 30 years.
The Authority Board will consider bonding of
are not eligible under this Program. Repairs
to existing public sidewalks may be included future revenues to accelerate this effort; and will within adjacent street repairs provided such encourage local agencies to consider bonding or repairs are necessary to address ADA path of borrowing options in order to advance this work. travel or pedestrian safety issues associated with The $3.5 billion is intended to reflect potential tree-damaged sidewalks. Said sidewalk repairs bonding costs, as well as the fact it may take cannot exceed 20% of the over cost of the street longer than 20 years to reach the 70 PCI target. repair project. Installation of new sidewalks,
bike lanes, or curbs and gutters are not eligible
under this Program. However, other funding
10 FUNDING ALLOCATION PROCESS Eligible Projects/Programs A minimum base of $100,000 per year shall be
• Street and road maintenance for publicly
allocated to each agency, and then the annual
owned facilities (pavement and pothole
78% population / 22% road mile formula
repair, drainage improvements, other
would be applied to determine the total funding
allocation by local agency under this Program. related improvements) including:
• Planning and environmental analysis.
Other Requirements
• Conceptual and preliminary engineering.
Every agency that receives Local Street Repair
• Design engineering (PS&E).
Program funding must allocate no less than 30%
of their allocation, as determined on a 5-year • Right-of-way acquisition, support and relocation.
rolling average, on areas within their jurisdiction
that are disadvantaged using the highest 25% • Utilities relocation. census tracks based on CalEnviro Screen 4.0 and
• Construction (rehabilitation, maintenance
areas with a median income of less than 80%
and/or reconstruction) of streets and
of the statewide median. Restriction remains
roads, unpaved roads, and alleys.
in effect until the Agency's average PCI for the
Disadvantaged Areas reaches 65. Once the • Inspection of construction engineering. average PCI of 65 is met, that 30% restriction • Direct staff time (salary and benefits). is suspended, as long as those areas do not fall
• Consultants selected consistent with a
below a PCI of 65 in subsequent years. Agencies
local agency selection process.
must still continue to invest in those areas in
• Construction contractors selected consistent
order to raise the overall PCI to 70.
with a local agency selection process.
When the average PCI of the streets or roads
• Labor, materials, and equipment
within a jurisdiction either exceeds 80, or the for day labor. lowest PCI on any street within the jurisdiction
is 70 or higher, Local Street Repair Program • Public engagement and funds in excess of what is needed to maintain education programs. street conditions above a PCI of 70 may be • Applications of new technologies. utilized as Local Control Program funds.
• Privately owned streets and roads are not
eligible for funding under this Program.
11 2 Implementing Agencies
Local Control Program proceeds will be
LOCAL CONTROL
allocated to each of the 15 incorporated
cities and Fresno County.
Introduction/Purpose
The intent of the Local Control Program Disbursement
Program is to recognize: Process/Requirements
• Not every community in Fresno County has FUNDING ALLOCATION PROCESS the same transportation needs. Allocations made by the Authority to the local • Transportation needs can change over time. agencies will be based on the approved annual estimate of 100% population.
• Local match funding is consistently a
requirement for transportation funding INCLUSION OF PROJECTS
IN APPROVED BUDGET OR
grant programs; and the larger the match RELATED PROGRAM the more competitive grant applications
Local Control Program transportation projects
typically are. or programs shall be included in a local agency • A 30-year Measure cannot predict all of the five-year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) transportation needs within a community or annual budget, or by a resolution approving over that 30-year period; agencies need an eligible project or list of projects and/or flexibility to adapt to changing needs. programs at a public hearing of each local This Local Control Program is intended to agency. Said plans will be furnished annually give the 16 local agencies in Fresno County to the Authority. flexibility to respond to each of these situations
Performance Indicators
and more. It is intended to allow each agency to
determine how to most effectively spend these Performance indicators include but transportation dollars. These funds can be used are not limited to the following:
for projects or services that do not fit well within
• Number of bottlenecks eliminated.
the other Measure C Programs, or they can be
• Additional lane miles.
used to supplement those Programs if the need is
greater than the funds those Programs provide. • Signals and other stop control devices or signage installed.
• Safety improvements including
vehicles, bikes, and pedestrians.
• Miles of sidewalks built or repaired.
12 • Miles of street lighting installed. • Airports and/or aviation improvements:
• Number of bridges repaired or upgraded. • Rehabilitate taxiways and hold pads. • Miles of alleys repaired or paved. • Rehabilitate and extend runways. • Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) • Install lighting improvements. elements or projects installed.
• Rehabilitate aprons.
• Miles of high speed internet underground
• Acquire land for approaches.
conduit installed.
• Noise mitigation programs.
• Timely use of funds.
• Opportunity Corridors
• Matching funds obtained.
• Transit Oriented Development (TOD).
Local Control Program funds utilized for • Electric vehicle (EV) fleet conversion projects or services contained within one of
and/or infrastructure.
the other Measure C Renewal Programs will
also follow the same monitoring, reporting, • Underground infrastructure to accommodate internet connectivity.
and performance criteria established through
these Implementing Guidelines for those • Vanpool programs.
Renewal Programs.
• Rideshare programs.
Eligible Projects/Programs • Litter abatement along streets, roads or highways.
Local Control Program funding can be used
on a wide variety of transportation projects • Street maintenance, rehabilitation and services including: and/or expansion
• Pedestrian, trails, and/or bicycle facilities • Eliminating bottlenecks in existing streets caused by inconsistent growth patterns.
• Bicycle, trail, and/or pedestrian projects
(new facilities or the maintenance of • Additional lanes in street and road projects. existing facilities) • Rehabilitation, maintenance and/or reconstruction projects.
• Public transit improvements or services
• On-demand service/microtransit. • Signals and other stop control devices or signage.
• Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA), seniors, and/or paratransit Safety improvements; vehicles, improvements and services. bikes, and pedestrians.
• Medians.
• Bus stop facilities.
13 • Street trees and street landscaping. Timely Use of Funds • Sidewalks and sidewalk repairs. Every three (3) years there will be a compliance • Street lighting. test where jurisdictions must show they have • Bridges (car and pedestrian). spent their Local Street Repair Program funds, however, agencies are allowed accumulate funds
• Alleys (new and maintenance
for up to 6-years if needed for match purposes or
and repair of existing alleys). for a large project.
• Street striping including centerlines,
If an agency is not in compliance with the 6-year
fog lines, crosswalks, and bike lanes.
requirement, the Authority may withhold funds
• Intelligent Transportation Systems until the jurisdiction is compliant. (ITS) elements or projects.
• ADA Compliance Other Requirements
• Curb cuts, ramps, and striping Streets or roads constructed or reconstructed to remove barriers. under this Local Control Program shall follow • Other improvements necessary to meet the requirements delineated in the Safe Bike and Pedestrian Program section of these Guidelines
transportation ADA standards and
requirements. titled "Requirements Applying to All Facilities Utilizing Any Measure C Program Funds."
• Other special transportation services.
• Supplement Major Roads and Highways, Reporting Requirements Safety Improvement and Congestion Agencies will include all planned projects Relief Program projects. within their jurisdiction that intend to use • Grade separations. Local Control Program funding in their 5-year • Environmental Sustainability Capital Outlay Plan, as described within the Local and Neighborhood Streets and Road
projects or programs.
Repair Program. This Plan will be submitted
• Other transportation-related improvements
to the Authority on an annual basis.
and/or projects (street sweepers, detour
equipment, etc.).
Full eligibility will be included in the Authority's
Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) as described
in the Renewal Expenditure Plan.
14 3 Implementing Agencies
Urban and Rural Public Transit proceeds will
URBAN AND be allocated to each of the following agencies:
RURAL PUBLIC • Clovis Transit
TRANSIT • Fresno Area Express (FAX)
• Fresno County Rural Transit Agency (FCRTA)
Overview/Purpose
Each of the three transit providers will receive an
The Urban and Rural Public Transit Program
annual allocation of Measure C Renewal funding
is intended to provide funding for public for the improvement of public transit services. transit programs that will encourage people
Fresno COG will receive periodic funding to
to minimize single occupancy vehicle trips, update the Regional Long Range Transit Plan. provide enhanced mobility options for seniors,
people with disabilities, and other transit FAX and Clovis Transit are the urban dependent individuals, and improve air quality. transit operators in Fresno County, while FCRTA provides transit services within the
Improvements to the existing and planned
thirteen (13) rural incorporated cities located
transit services has gained prominence around outside the Fresno-Clovis metropolitan area the State and within Fresno County. There are
(FCMA), as well as inter-city transit service,
significant opportunities to fund public transit which focuses on providing transit trips improvements using State and federal funds. from the small, incorporated cities and the The Measure C allocation to this Program will
unincorporated communities within Fresno
provide additional opportunities for the local County to the FCMA. agencies to leverage State and federal funding.
Approximately twelve percent (12%) of
Measure C Renewal funding is provided
to fund improvements to the existing and
planned public transit systems and facilities
in the urban and rural areas of the County.
15 Measure C Program • Existing transit service and
Disbursement Process/ safety improvements.
Requirements • Automated fare box systems.
FUNDING ALLOCATION PROCESS • Fleet conversion to evolving clean Allocation made by the Authority to the propulsion technologies. transit agencies will be:
• American with Disability Act (ADA)/
Seniors 65 Years of Age and Older/People
Agency Allocation
with Disabilities transit fare subsidy.
Clovis Transit 10%
• Bus stop amenities.
FAX 70%
• Improved service reliability
FCRTA 20%
and predictability.
Allocations made to Fresno COG to update • Improved urban & rural on-demand transit services (Dial-a-ride, etc.).
the Regional Long Range Transit Plan will be
reimbursed to the agency considering actual • New/Innovative Public Transit Services/ costs of staff or consultant time and expenses. Systems including operations . Cost effective solutions to improving
INCLUSION OF PROJECTS
IN APPROVED BUDGET OR mobility in un-served or underserved areas.
RELATED PROGRAM
• Uber/Lyft Services.
Public transit projects shall be included in a
local agency Capital Improvement Program • On-demand ADA rides (CIP) or Annual Budget, or by a Resolution and transit expansion. approving an eligible project or list of projects • Driverless shuttles. and/or programs at a public hearing of each
• First/Last-mile connections.
local agency.
• Micro Transit-flexible routing
Eligible Projects/Programs and scheduling.
The following projects are eligible for Urban • Shared "rides" such as Green Raiteros, and Rural Public Transit Program funding: Van Vien.
• Improve urban and rural fixed-route transit • Shared "vehicles"-such as vehicle rentals, services including operations Mio Car.
- Bus rapid transit routes/systems. • Expanded Senior Scrip program to include seniors 65 years and older
and people with disabilities.
16 - Micro mobility hubs (designed to provide and There are also nine (9) transit performance identify a range of connected travel choices). measures, which are derived from these indicators:
• Operating cost per passenger.
Other Requirements
• Operating cost per vehicle service hour.
• Clovis Transit, FAX, FCRTA
• Operating cost per vehicle service mile.
• Reduced Public Transit Fare Program for
• Passengers per vehicle service hour.
Seniors 65 Years of Age and Older, Students,
Veterans, and People with Disabilities. • Passengers per vehicle service mile. • Taxi Scrip Program for Seniors • Farebox ratio.
65 Years of Age and Older. • Vehicle service hours per employee.
Performance Indicators • Vehicle service mile per vehicle service hours.
To ensure that Measure C funds are allocated • Fare per passenger. to effective programs that provide measurable The results of these transit performance results in reducing single occupant auto use, measures vary significantly between the urban eligible projects, programs, and services will and rural transit operators as their service areas be evaluated in accordance the performance and customer base are unique. As a result, it indicators and measures process noted below.
will be necessary to develop detailed transit
• Matching funds obtained. performance measures within the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) that will serve as
Urban and Rural Public Transit Operators a companion implementation document to are required by California state law to
the Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan and
undergo transit performance audits every to these Guidelines. To ensure development three (3) years. In general, there are six (6) of quality performance measures for public transit performance indicators that are used transit, it is envisioned that a Measure C Transit to determine how effectively and efficiently
Subcommittee consisting of staff from the
a transit operator is operating from a fiscal
urban and rural transit agencies along with
perspective. Those six (6) performances
FCTA, Fresno COG and member agency staff
indicators, are: will be formed to assist with the development • Operating cost. • Vehicle service miles. of performance measures. These and/or other • Fare revenues. • Number of passengers. indicators, criteria or objectives will be taken into consideration to develop performance measures
• Vehicle service hours. • Number of employees.
when evaluating the Urban and Rural Public
Transit Program.
17 4 Implementing Agencies
SAFE BIKES AND Active Transportation Program proceeds will be allocated to each of the agencies listed below.
PEDESTRIANS Each of the cities and the County of Fresno Including Safe Routes will receive an annual allocation of Measure C to School & Access for Renewal funding for the improvement of bike People with Disabilities and pedestrian projects and systems. Fresno COG will prepare the Regional Active Transportation
Overview/Purpose Plan (ATP) and FCTA will develop and apply performance indicators and measures.
The purpose of the Safe Bike and Pedestrian
• 15 Cities.
Program (hereinafter referred to as "Active
Transportation Program") is to provide • County of Fresno. additional funding for bike, pedestrian and
trail facilities and services, and safe routes Fresno COG will receive periodic funding to to schools that will increase safety, reduce update the Regional Active Transportation Plan. automobile trips and vehicle miles traveled
Disbursement Process/
(VMT), thereby improving air quality, reducing
Requirements
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and improving
health. Improvements to the existing and FUNDING ALLOCATION PROCESS planned pedestrian, trail, and bicycle systems Allocations made by the Authority to the local have gained prominence around the State and agencies will be based on the approved annual within Fresno County. There are significant estimate of 75% population and 25% road miles. opportunities for funding these types of projects
using State and federal funds. The Measure C INCLUSION OF PROJECTS
IN APPROVED BUDGET OR
Renewal allocation to this Program will provide RELATED PROGRAM additional opportunities for the local agencies to Active Transportation Program projects leverage State and federal funding. shall be included in a local agency Five- year Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Approximately 1% of Measure C Renewal
or Annual Expenditure Plan (AEP), or an
funding is provided to fund improvements to
annual budget, or by a resolution approving
the existing and planned bike, pedestrian and an eligible project or list of projects and/or trail systems. programs at a public hearing of each
local agency.
18 Master Plan Requirements Allowed Accumulation
of Earmark Funds
By January 1, 2030, all jurisdictions within
Over Five (5) Years
Fresno County will have updated their Active
Transportation Plan for trail, bicycle and Every five (5) years [six (6) times in 30 years] pedestrian facilities that promotes connectivity there will be a compliance audit where and complete streets within all of Fresno County jurisdictions must certify to the Authority that and its urban areas. Measure C Renewal funds they have spent their allocated funds; however, may be used for the following activities: funds are allowed to accumulate up to a six (6) • Development or update of a local year period (if needed) for match purposes or for agency's Active Transportation Plan. a large project--then the spending goals must be met thereafter. Unused funds may revert to the
• Development or update of the Fresno
Authority for redistribution to other jurisdictions.
Regional Active Transportation Plan.
Eligible Projects/Programs
The Active Transportation Plan or Fresno
Regional Active Transportation Plan will be The following transportation projects are eligible the guiding documents for upgrade and/or for Active Transportation Program funding:
installation of such facilities.
• Active Transportation Plans and Studies
If any jurisdiction fails to meet this goal, the (Local agency staff or consultant services). allocated funds for the Active Transportation
• Regional Active Transportation Plan
Program facilities shall be withheld by the (FCTA/FCOG staff or consultant services).
Authority until such time as a jurisdiction
is in compliance. • Bikeway, trails, and/or path projects. • Pedestrian facilities (sidewalks, other).
Exemptions
• Safe Routes to Schools.
Local agencies with less than 25,000 population • Safety projects. are exempt from the allocated funds for the
• Protected facilities.
Active Transportation Program. Such funds
would transfer to the Local Control Program. • Traffic control devices. • Street or trail lighting.
• Signage.
• Shoulder Improvements.
• Curb ramps, accessible pedestrian signals
(APS), other related improvements.
19 • Public engagement and public • Monitoring/reporting requirements. education programs.
• Audit process.
• New technology applications.
Allocations for Active
• Development and application of
performance measures or criteria Transportation Facilities by the Authority and Fresno COG. Measure C Renewal funds may be used • Trail maintenance as further defined for new construction, improvements to and maintenance of Active Transportation
in this section.
Program facilities, and for Active
• Eligible investments would include all
Transportation Plan updates.
recognized project phases including:
• Planning and environmental analysis. Class I, II, III, and IV • Conceptual and preliminary engineering. Definitions and Eligibility Requirements
• Design engineering (PS&E).
The following definitions apply:
• Right-of-way acquisition, support
and relocation. • Refer to Caltrans Highway Design Manual (HDM) Chapter 1000 for definitions of the
• Utilities relocation.
various types of facilities. Class I facilities
• Inspection of construction engineering. are not limited to bicycle use but are also available for pedestrians. Within these
• Direct staff time (salary and benefits).
Renewal Implementing Guidelines and in
• Consultants selected consistent with a
the Renewal Expenditure Plan, they will be
local agency selection process.
referred to as Class I facilities, or bicycle or
• Construction contractors selected shared use paths.
consistent with a local agency • Rural trails are not required to be Class I facilities. selection process. Rural trails will generally be located in areas • Labor, materials, and equipment outside of the incorporated cities. Rural for day labor. trails will typically be recreational in nature. • Other Requirements:
• Compliance check.
• Fund accumulation and non-
compliance requirements.
• Claims process/disbursements.
20 • Design guidance for rural trails is not well or otherwise flashing crossing or alternative defined in the HDM. These types of facilities warning devices, or (b) built with a grade should follow design and construction guidance separated crossing when these are warranted as contained in the 2015 California State Parks due to pedestrian or bicycle safety risks.
Accessibility Guidelines, or similar guidance
• Up to 20% of the jurisdiction's Active
documents. The link is provided below. Transportation Program allocation may be allocated to the maintenance of Class I facilities.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/
pages/21944/files/2015%20 • Jurisdictions shall certify to the Authority california 20state%20parks%20 that these guidelines have been met in the utilization of Measure C Renewal funds.
accessibility 20guidelines.pdf
• Class 2 bikeways (bike lanes) and Class 3
• Class I bicycle paths and shared use paths bikeways (bike routes) will be designed and installed in accordance with the California
built with Measure C Renewal funds shall, at
a minimum, be designed in accordance with Highway Design Manual (HDM), Chapter the design criteria for bicycle paths as set forth 1000, Bikeway Planning and Design, and the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
in the California Highway Design Manual
(HDM), Chapter 1000, Bikeway Planning and Devices (CA MUTCD).
Design. Within the Fresno Clovis Metropolitan • Class 4 bikeways (separated bikeways/ Area, Class I facilities built with Measure C cycletracks) will be designed and installed in funds shall be twelve (12) feet minimum in accordance with Caltrans Design Information width where physically feasible. Bulletin 89.
• Within the Fresno Clovis Metropolitan • Any new or modified types of facilities are Area, Class I facilities built with Measure C eligible for Active Transportation Program Renewal funds shall be built so that at-grade funding provided they are included in any crossings are limited to one (1) every one-half future revision of the Caltrans HDM or (1/2) mile at signalized intersections for new related design guidance. developments provided that this does not
violate property owner rights.
• Class I facilities built within existing
neighborhoods shall be built so that mid-
street crossings on collectors, arterials,
super-arterials or expressways should
be either (a) controlled by an at-grade
pedestrian waiting mechanism, signalized
21 Requirements Applying to • Facilities built and maintained by the State All Facilities Utilizing Any of California and projects, which are either Measure C Program Funds for routine maintenance or traffic safety purposes, are exempt from this requirement;
All streets and roads constructed or improved
however, Caltrans should be encouraged to
in whole or in part with Measure C Renewal
implement these features where feasible and
funds shall include "Complete Street" features.
consistent with Caltrans regulations.
A complete street is defined as a transportation
• Expressways constructed in an urban area
facility that is planned, designed, constructed,
can meet this requirement by including a
operated, and maintained to provide comfortable
and convenient mobility, and improve accessibility sidewalk, paths, walkways or equivalent and connectivity to essential community facility on one side of the roadway. destinations for all users, regardless of whether • New Bicycle Facilities they are travelling as pedestrians, bicyclists, • Every highway, expressway, super-arterial, public transportation riders, or drivers. Streets and
arterial or collector within the County
roads that utilize the Local Street Repair Program constructed in whole or in part with funds for maintenance and repair of streets are
Measure C Renewal funds shall include
encouraged to include complete street elements accommodations for bicycle travel by a that do not require additional pavement width. striped shoulder with a minimum width • New Pedestrian Facilities of four feet (4). This 4' shoulder may be • Every highway, expressway, super-arterial, provided as a bike lane or a cycletrack. arterial or collector (exempting freeways) If an existing highway, expressway, super- arterial or collector is reconstructed and
within the urbanized areas throughout the
County that is constructed or reconstructed said reconstruction includes pavement in whole or in part with Measure C Renewal widening, that project will also be subject funds shall include sidewalks, paths, walkways, to this requirement. Reconstruction projects or equivalent facilities on both sides accomplished exclusively through the Local of the street, road, or highway for use by and Neighborhood Street Repair and pedestrians. Reconstruction projects Maintenance Program are exempt from accomplished exclusively through the this requirement but are encouraged to Local and Neighborhood Street Repair utilize other funding sources to provide these and Maintenance Program are exempt bicycle facilities where none currently exist. from this requirement but are encouraged to
utilize other funding sources to provide these
pedestrian facilities where none currently exist.
22 • Likewise, all such roadways within the statement clearly declaring that the purpose of County receiving pavement reconstruction the hearing is to review bicycle and pedestrian (without pavement widening), rehabilitation facility exception(s) for a proposed project using or an overlay, slurry seal, chip seal, or Measure C Renewal funds and identifying the seal coat funded in whole or in part with specific exceptions. The exceptions are:
Measure C Renewal funds shall include • The provision of pedestrian and/or bicycle accommodations for bicycle travel by a access is contrary to public safety. striped shoulder with a minimum width
of four feet (4) unless there is insufficient • An alternative route already exists, or will be pavement width. This 4' shoulder may be built as part of a project, which is equal or better provided as a bike lane or a cycletrack. in terms of safety, distance and travel time. • The cost of the facilities would be
• On a multilane roadway, conversion
of travel lanes to bicycle facilities is disproportionate (exceeding 20% eligible and recommended provided of the cost of the overall project). the responsible agency has made a • Sparse population or other measurable determination that excess roadway factors indicate an absence of need. capacity exists and that the bicycle
• Significant adverse environmental effects
facilities are allowable.
would result from the inclusion of the
facilities in the project.
Maintained Pedestrian
or Bicycle Facilities • Opposition by two-thirds (2/3) or more of the property owners whose property lies
Any maintenance to a street, road, or highway
directly adjacent to the facilities.
funded in whole or in part by Measure C Renewal
funds shall, at a minimum, maintain the existing "Constructed" is defined as the construction of level of pedestrian and bicycle access, facilities a new roadway or portion of a roadway that and safety features along and across the street, did not previously exist including projects to road, or highway. increase the capacity of an existing street or road.
Exceptions to the For the purposes of this section, "Reconstructed" Requirements is defined as the existing full improvement of an existing roadway, but which does not include
The above requirements shall not apply if the additional lane capacity. Reconstruction may or constructing agency, after a properly noticed may not include shoulder widening. public hearing, determines that one (1) or
more of the exceptions listed below exists.
The public hearing notice shall include a
23 For the purposes of this section "Urban Areas" is • Replace burned out light bulbs. defined as the Fresno Clovis Metropolitan Area
"On-going Maintenance" does not include:
and the incorporated cities of Fresno County.
• Resurfacing of asphalt except to do spot repairs
Flexibility if Needs Are Met from things such as a broken water line.
In 2032, 2037, 2042, 2047, and 2052 • Restriping any median lines. the Authority will review the status of all
• Installing or replacing signing.
jurisdictions' Active Transportation Plans.
• Paying for the cost of water or electricity.
If the Authority determines at a public hearing that • Maintenance at adjacent trail heads or parks. a jurisdiction's Active Transportation Plan is less
than five (5) years old when last adopted, and the Performance Indicators Active Transportation Plan has been completed
Performance indicators include but
at each of these five-year marks, the allocation
requirements are suspended until the next are not limited to the following:
evaluation and funding will revert to the overall • Miles of missing "path of travel" completed.
Local Control Program of the local jurisdiction. • Miles of Safe Routes to Schools completed Bicycle and Pedestrian • Miles of new bike Lanes, paths, or trails.
Facilities Maintenance • Miles of trail or bike lanes maintained. "On-going Maintenance" is defined as including: • Miles of new bike lanes included • Tree and shrub trimming, tree stake retying, on new road projects. replacement, or removal. • Timely use of funds.
• Fertilizing and weed control chemicals and • Cost per mile. their application. • Matching funds obtained.
• Weed removal.
• Potholes, breaks in the asphalt surface, or
tree root uplifting.
• Irrigation system repair and upkeep (repair
breaks, missing heads).
• Repair or reset timers.
• Replace or repair stolen or damaged wires.
• Litter removal.
24 owner of the facility; however, it may also be the
5 sponsoring agency for a project that is not a part
MAJOR ROADS of their system. The Authority may also choose to be the Implementing Agency for a project
& HIGHWAYS,
on facilities owned by others. The owner of the
SAFETY facility must agree to another agency assuming
IMPROVEMENT the role of Implementing Agency.
& CONGESTION
Definitions
RELIEF
Projects within this Program are generally on
the State Highway System, as those facilities
Purpose are regional by nature; however, projects can
The Major Roads and Highways, Safety also include those on major local arterials Improvements and Congestion Relief Program that serve more than one city or area of the identifies priority regional street, road and county. Fresno Yosemite International (FYI) highway improvement projects to be implemented Airport is also included as a regional facility, over the life of the Measure C Renewal Program. as it facilitates passenger and freight travel These projects will be funded with Measure C from throughout Fresno County to state, Renewal and/or other transportation funding. national, and international destinations.
Projects within this program are considered to be
of regional significance. Eligible Project Lists
The Renewal Expenditure Plan contains Tier
Eligible Agencies
1 and Tier 2 Project Lists for both urban and
Eligible agencies for this program include the 15 rural areas of the County. The Tier 1 projects incorporated cities, Fresno County, the Fresno are part of the initial 15 years of the Measure Council of Governments (Fresno COG, the C Renewal Program, while the Tier 2 lists are Fresno County Transportation Authority projects potentially eligible for funding in the (FCTA or the Authority), and Caltrans. second 15 years of the Measure C Renewal Program. Tier 1 Urban and Rural Project Lists
Program Implementation are both slightly over committed. The Tier 1 and Tier 2 lists are included as Tables 4 through
Implementing Agencies will be designated
7 in the Renewal Expenditure Plan. Over
for each of the regional projects included
committing of Tier 1, not to exceed 25% of the
on the Tier 1 Urban or Rural Project List prior
to beginning project development activities. overall funding target, is included in the list The Implementing Agency will generally be the of Tier 1 projects. All Tier 1 projects are high 25 priority, and any uncompleted projects would Renewal Program. These projects will be selected very likely become high priority for the second based on relative priority, deliverability, and cash 15 years of Measure C Renewal funding. Over flow. No later than June 30, 2034, Fresno COG committing allows the advancement of critical and FCTA will identify projects from the Tier 1 projects through the project delivery process lists for years eight through fifteen (8-15) of the so that they are ready for funding as it becomes Measure C Renewal Program; again, based on available. Over commitment also allows agencies relative priorities, deliverability, and cash flow. to take advantage of future potential funding
Beginning no later than 2041, Fresno COG and
opportunities that cannot be anticipated or
quantified at this time. FCTA will develop and conduct a comprehensive public engagement process to help guide the effort
The Renewal Expenditure Plan contains $35 to establish the list of projects to be funded during million for improvements at FYI Airport, with the second half of the Measure Renewal. No later $14 million of this funding being available in than June 30, 2042, Fresno COG and FCTA will the first 15 years and with the remainder in the adopt a list of urban and rural projects to be second 15-year period. The City of Fresno will funded during the second half of the determine the priority projects for this reserve Measure Renewal. funding. If requested by the City of Fresno, the
FCTA Board may consider advancing airport The FCTA Board may consider bonding revenues from the second half on the measure of future revenues if project needs, and into the first 15 years. deliverability exceed cash flow.
Flexibility and Plan Regional Transportation
Modifications Mitigation Fee
Program (RTMF)
Fresno COG and FCTA will conduct
biennial Major Roads and Highways, Safety The Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan sets Improvements and Congestion Relief Program forth requirements related to implementation reviews and updates, the purpose of which will of the Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee be to ascertain project delivery status, as well as (RTMF) Program. The Measure C ballot in 2006 included requirements for local Fresno
validity of funding availability. Adjustments to
delivery schedules and funding contributions County cities and the county (local agencies) to may be necessary as a part of these updates. implement Regional Transportation Mitigation Fees pursuant to California Government Code
No later than June 30, 2027, Fresno COG and Sections 66000, et seg, and remit the proceeds to FCTA will identify projects from the Tier 1 lists the FCTA to supplement construction of projects for the first seven (7) years of the Measure C in the Regional Transportation program. 26 The ballot also included enforcement mechanisms The Authority, consistent with the adopted and to ensure all Fresno County local agencies updated Measure C Expenditure Plan, shall have participated in the program. In response the authority and flexibility to allocate the RTMF to those requirements, and to implement a based upon regional priority need within the consistent regional fee, the local agencies formed county as defined by the biannual update of the a Joint Powers Agency (JPA), Fresno County Major Roads & Highways, Safety Improvement Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee Agency and Congestion Relief Program consistent with (FCRTMFA), pursuant to California Government State law governing impact mitigation fees.
Code Sections 6500, et seq.
No later than June 30, 2027, all Measure C
This Measure Renewal provides for the agencies must extend the RTMF JPA established continuation of the RTMF program established as a part of the second Measure C, consistent by the 2006 Measure, including all local agency with Section 7 of the JPA Agreement. If any enforcement mechanisms, the perpetuation of city or Fresno County should choose to not the Fresno County RTMF Agency through the implement the RTMF, that agency shall forfeit life of the Measure and all adopted policies and annually from the Local Control Program, agreements currently in effect pertaining to an amount equal to the amount of RTMF the mitigation fee program. The Measure also that would otherwise have been paid for recognizes that mitigation fees are governed development projects within that jurisdiction by State law, which changes from time to time, during the year. If an agency chooses to not and stipulates implementation of the program implement the RTMF, that agency shall notify shall remain in compliance with California law. the Authority of such decision and shall file California statute currently requires a major an advisory report with the Authority for each update to the NEXUS in 2028, which will revisit development indicating the amount of RTMF how the fee has been spent on current projects, that would have been paid. The Authority shall consideration of future projects, adjustments to make a total calculation of RTMF obligation rates, and all other legal program requirements. on an annual basis and deduct the appropriate amount of funds for the RTMF from the Local
The RTMF Program requires that new growth
Control Program allocation for that agency.
and development within the county and each of
the cities contribute to regional street and highway Funding Allocations project costs. The RTMF Program ensures that
growth and development pay for their fair share Each Implementing Agency will request of impacts to the county's transportation facilities. project funding from the Authority, which The RTMF Program can only be used to mitigate will be provided through a Cooperative transportation impacts related to growth; it cannot Funding Agreement. These agreements will be used to address existing deficiencies. allocate funding for the initial project phases). 27 As the project progresses and additional funding Performance Indicators is necessary to proceed to subsequent phases, and Measures the agreement will be amended to reflect
the additional costs. All funding agreements Performance indicators and measures may reimburse Implementing Agencies for funds include but are not limited to the following:
expended. The agreements do not provide
Performance
Indicator
agencies with advanced funding. Measure
Reduce vehicle miles Transit trips, average
Other Requirements traveled (VMT)/capita. vehicle occupancy on project, change in jobs
Implementing Agencies will be required to report
project progress on an on-going basis to the
Authority. Projects requiring cost increases not
associated with subsequent project phases must Reduce congested Congestion severity, travel be thoroughly justified by the Implementing VMT/capita ingetably growth in Agency. A funding agreement amendment must
Increase multi-modal Transit person-trips
be approved prior to expending funds beyond travel on segment, street the approved project budget. connectivity, bike
network connection,
Implementing Agencies will furnish, install and residential mode split. maintain project funding signage recognizing the Job access, job growth Economic prosperity: jobs
Measure C Renewal funding contribution. Details
of said signage will be contained in the SIP. sconomic prosperity: ¡chool access, schoo nrollmen
All major roads and highways constructed, Economic prosperity: Acres of ag land agriculture near project
improved, or reconstructed under this Program
shall follow the requirements delineated in the Improve freight STAA truck route status, movement truck mode, industrial
Safe Bike and Pedestrian Program section of these obs share, industria Guidelines titled "Requirements Applying to All ob growt Facilities Utilizing Any Measure C Program Funds." Safety Total collisions, Collision rate, bike/ped
collision & rate
Maintain State of SHOPP, PCI, volumes
Good Repair
Socioeconomic Equity EJ population, EJ
percent, EJ accessibility
Matching funds
obtained
28 Providing a separate Renewal Program for
environmental sustainability in no way implies
ENVIRONMENTAL these are the only funds within the Measure C SUSTAINABILITY Renewal Program dedicated to these purposes.
In fact, each of the previous five (5) Renewal
Programs all contain elements or provisions
Nationwide, the San Joaquin Valley suffers
the worst air quality for certain pollutants. to improve air quality and reduce GHG Tailpipe emissions, agriculture, industry and emissions. This Program will provide funds over and above those contained within those
the geography of the Valley have resulted in
high concentration of ozone and particulate other Renewal Programs. matter that lead to a disproportionately high The agencies listed below are eligible for rate of respiratory diseases such as asthma.
Environmental Sustainability Program funding.
The Valley has also experienced severe drought, Private sector, non-profit organizations, or other wildfire, flash flooding, and prolonged triple- government agencies may also apply through digit summer temperatures that have been a sponsoring local government agency where exacerbated by climate change. Transportation the project is located. The agencies listed below sector contributes far more than 40% of the
would be considered the Implementing Agency
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
for each eligible project.
In order to respond to the State's goals of • 15 Incorporated cities within Fresno County.
GHG reduction, and to improve air quality • County of Fresno. in the Fresno region, the Environmental
• Fresno Council of Governments.
Sustainability Program addresses these issues
by providing funding for programs and projects Typically, the 16 local agencies in Fresno that would increase the vehicle electrification
County would be the primary applicants
rate, enable new technologies, facilitate non- for these funds; however, some projects or single-occupancy-vehicle travel, and encourage programs may be of a more regional nature, sustainable land use development. In addition, in which case Fresno COG or FCTA may be in order to preserve the transportation
the logical applicant.
investments made by the voters in Fresno
County, and maintain a livable and enjoyable
living environment, this Program also provides
funding to encourage local agencies and Caltrans
to remove litter from the roadways.
29 Funding Disbursement • Innovations in micro mobility Process/Requirements (bicycles, e-bikes, electric scooters, electric skateboards, shared bicycles,
All the projects or programs under the
and electric pedal assisted bicycles).
Environmental Sustainability Program are
competitive. Specific implementation policies • Rideshare, and car and vanpool programs and guidelines will be developed for each project - Increased opportunities for telecommuting. type or program following Measure C Renewal • Broadband infrastructure for telecommuting approval by the voters.
and education facility purposes.
Eligible Projects FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES
and Programs Approximately $40 million (59% of the
Measure) is dedicated to this program.
CLEAN ENERGY
Approximately $22 million (.32% of the • Other new technology applications.
Measure) is dedicated to this program.
• Future technology improvements.
• Charging stations, hydrogen fueling, CNG, etc.
TRANSIT ORIENTED
• Regional Zero-Emission Vehicle Readiness PROGRAM (TOD) AND
OPPORTUNITY CORRIDORS
and Implementation Plan (ECTA/COG Approximately $45 million (.66% of the staff or consultant services). Measure) is dedicated to this program • Local agency Zero-Emission Vehicle TOD grants provide funding for transportation Readiness and Implementation Plans. facilities in new or revitalized developments that • Clean vehicle power support facilities. support increased demand for transit with higher density and mixed land use. TOD developments
• Microgrid/solar EV battery charging.
reduce our dependence on the automobile by
• Other clean transportation projects providing funding incentives for more public or or programs. alternative transportation.
TRAVEL CHOICE The Measure C Renewal Program and its goal Approximately $20 million (.29% of the of vibrant communities that are accessible by Measure) is dedicated to this program.
sustainable transportation options, is integrally
• Micro mobility hubs (are designed linked to the implementation of the Regional to provide and identify a range of
Transportation Plan/Sustainable Community
connected travel choices).
Strategy (RTP/SCS). The selected RTP/SCS
scenario will achieve the goals of reducing sprawl
while supporting higher densities in urban areas
with high quality public transit options.
30 As an example, the Fresno Opportunity Corridors any Measure C eligible agency that chooses (FOC) plan was developed as a part of the DRIVE to participate in the program. initiative and is aimed at helping implement the
Enhanced litter abatement would be limited to
Measure C Renewal Program, RTP/SCS and the
Fresno General Plan. FOC has the potential to State highways in order to maximize Caltrans receive hundreds of millions of dollars from State, funding. In addition, the local matching funds federal and philanthropic sources needed to build for litter abatement would be eligible within the intense high quality equitable transit-oriented Local Control Program. Participating agencies development (eTOD) with affordable housing may also provide a soft match in the form of time and materials.
and other desirable mixed-uses along eleven (11)
miles of complete multi-modal streetscapes in
Eligible Investments
central and south Fresno. It is also a model for all
cities in Fresno County and the Valley that want Eligible investments would include all vibrant places along their key corridors designed recognized project phases including:
as high activity mixed-use centers that better meet • Planning and environmental analysis. the health, housing, jobs, business, recreation
and transportation needs of their stakeholders • Conceptual and preliminary engineering. while producing significant reductions in VMT • Design engineering (PS&E). and GHGs and improving environmental quality, • Right-of-way acquisition, fiscal efficiency, and many other opportunities. support and relocation.
Implementation of Opportunity Corridors is an
• Utilities relocation.
eligible expense within the Measure C Renewal
Local Control Program. In addition, certain • Construction of any transportation-related elements of Opportunity Corridors may also be project including alleys and unpaved roads. eligible within the Urban and Rural Transit, Safe • Inspection of construction engineering.
Bikes and Pedestrians, Major Roads and Highways,
and Environment Sustainability Programs. • Direct staff time (salary and benefits). • Consultants selected consistent with a local
LITTER ABATEMENT
Approximately $10 million (.15% of the agency selection process.
Measure) is dedicated to this program. • Construction contractors selected consistent Matching funds would be available on a with a local agency selection process. one-for-one basis to secure Caltrans funding
• Labor, materials, and equipment for day labor.
for increased litter abatement activities. One-
half of the matching funds would come from
the Measure C Environmental Sustainability
Program and one-half would come from
31 Project Requirements areas of research, development, demonstration, and deployment that will advance public transit
CLEAN ENERGY
or transportation systems. These new technologies
This program would fund clean and alternative could focus on technological advances in public energy projects such as hydrogen fueling, systems, safety features, fuel efficiencies and electric charging, compressed natural gas alternatives, ITS applications, and education (CNG), projects etc., that reduces the or information dissemination. They may also production of GHG and priority pollutants. promote passenger safety and satisfaction, attract Local governments and other entities are customers, improve capital and operating encouraged to develop plans and deploy such efficiencies, reduce environmental and air clean energy projects systematically. When pollution, and ease dependence on fossil fuels. developing such plans, entities are encouraged to
reach out to communities and solicit input from TRANSIT ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT (TOD)
the public and the users. With a few possible
This program was created as part of the
exceptions to be determined by the Authority
2006 Measure C Extension Plan. The goals
and its staff, clean energy projects do not include
of the Measure C Renewal TOD program
power generation or distribution facilities.
are intended to support community-based
TRAVEL CHOICE housing projects that are transit friendly:
This program would fund micro-mobility and • Are developed through an inclusive other projects that would reduce the use of planning process with broad private- private automobiles. Micro-mobility refers to public partnerships and outreach. a combination of small and low- speed
• Improve the range of transportation choices
vehicles and conveyances that are electric or
by supporting transit facilities and improving
human-powered and that are either privately
links between facilities and activity nodes.
owned or part of a shared-fleet. This program
will also provide funding for programs or • Support well-designed, high-density infrastructure that would facilitate housing and mixed uses near transit. telecommute and for support of car and • In addition to encouraging transit supportive vanpool programs. land use surrounding the high-capacity transit corridors to boost transit ridership in the Fresno
FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES
County region, the TOD program also strives to
This program would fund future unforeseen
support livable, viable and sustainable transit-
technologies that have potential for broad
oriented healthy communities that promote
benefits to Fresno County residents, assisting
walking, biking, and the use of public transit
the region in meeting its air quality goals. These
and reduce private vehicle dependence. Such
should be projects of regional significance in the
32 TOD communities promote health and well- • Housing in-fill incentive programs would being and reduce risks for chronic diseases reward local governments for encouraging such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. developers to build compact designs with higher The projects funded by the TOD program housing densities, affordable and accessible serve as models that reduce vehicle trips, housing, and mixed uses that are characteristic improve air quality, and provide access to of well-implemented Transit Oriented Design physical activity opportunities through found in other cities developments in proximity integrated land use and transportation planning. to transit stops. Local government agencies may spend funds to supplement development fees or
The TOD program provides funding to on a capital project that supports new housing three types of projects/programs that are development connections to transit. competitive based:
LITTER ABATEMENT
• Transportation infrastructure improvements to
transit facilities to encourage safety and access Litter along the region's freeways, highways, to transit facilities, support in-fill development and major arterials has been an on-going or revitalization, reduce traffic congestion at issue for Fresno County and its communities. transit stations, and provide for a wider range This activity can provide matching funds to of transportation choices and improved internal leverage additional resources for abatement, mobility. Funds may be used for preliminary public education or additional community or government resources (Caltrans or other
design and environmental studies, engineering,
land acquisition, and construction. government agency grants). • Planning Program or matching money to Other Requirements identify nodal transit sites on transit corridors
for transit-oriented development, planning Grant application processes will be developed for these competitive programs and will include:
retrofit for existing neighborhoods, downtowns,
commercial cores, and transit station areas • Monitoring and reporting requirements. and stops in order to create access to transit
• Audit process.
and mixed-use development in transit friendly
• Performance indicators.
environments. The community planning
process would result in transportation/land-
use concept plans; streetscape design concept
plans, environmental studies, detailed drawings,
construction cost estimates, and implementation
plans for specific capital projects.
33 Performance Indicators Administrative Issues
and Measures
COMMITTEE FORMATION
Performance indicators and measures will • The Committee will be formed within 6 be developed as a part of the competitive months upon the effective date of the 2022 program criteria and will include: Measure C Extension. (July 1, 2027). • Matching funds obtained. • The Citizen Oversight Committee (Committee) shall not be amended
CITIZEN out of the Expenditure Plan.
• Meetings will commence when Measure C
OVERSIGHT
Extension revenues are recommended
COMMITTEE for expenditure, including Expenditure
Plan updates.
Committee Purpose
SELECTION AND DUTIES
A Citizen Oversight Committee (COC) was OF COMMITTEE CHAIR
AND VICE CHAIR
established as a part of the 2006 Measure.
• The Committee shall select a Chair and Vice
That committees efforts have been helpful
Chair from the members, each of whom
in analyzing local agency conformance to
Expenditure Plan requirements. Each year shall serve a one (1) year term. their findings are published within the • The duties of the Chair will be to call meetings, Measure C Annual Report for public review. set agendas, and preside over meetings.
This proposed Measure will continue efforts • The duties of the Vice chair will be to of the COC with a number of key changes perform the same duties described to help increase local agency accountability above in the absence of the Chair. for Measure C funds spent, and to increase
committee membership and participation. COMMITTEE MEETINGS • The Committee will hold one formal
The purpose of the COC is to inform the meeting annually, with additional meetings public and to ensure that the Measure C scheduled as needed by the Committee. funding program revenues and expenditures
• All Committee meetings must be held
are spent as promised to the public.
in compliance with the Brown Act.
• All meetings will be conducted
as per "Robert's Rules of Order"
34 SUBCOMMITTEE REQUIREMENTS Membership Selection
• The Committee may elect to form
SELECTION COMMITTEE
subcommittees to perform specific
Oversight Committee members will
parts of its purpose.
be selected by the Fresno Council of
• All subcommittees shall have an odd number
Governments Policy Board (the 15 mayors
of members so that tie votes are less likely. within Fresno County and the Chair of the COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP Fresno County Board of Supervisors).
AND QUORUM
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Membership • Each year as terms expire or as vacancies
The Committee shall be composed of eleven occur, annual postings of membership (11) members including: openings will be noticed 60 days in advance • Six (6) at-large public members: of the application process pursuant to Public • Membership must represent each one Utilities Code Section 99238.5. of the five Fresno County Supervisorial • Potential members must submit an Districts; and application to the Selection Committee.
• Three (3) must reside in the Fresno-Clovis • The Selection Committee will screen all Metropolitan Area (FCMA); and applications and approve candidates for • Three (3) must reside in areas outside the membership on the Committee.
FCMA, one from the east side, one from the
TERM OF MEMBERSHIP
west side and one from an unincorporated
• Terms of membership will be for four (4) years.
area of the county.
• Members may serve consecutive terms.
• Five (5) members who must represent
• Members will receive compensation in the
a diverse mix of interested community
organizations. The members are expected amount of $50 for each meeting attended. to provide a balance of viewpoints. • No proxy voting will be permitted.
Quorum
• A Quorum will be the majority
of active members.
• An action item of the Committee may
be approved by a simple majority of the
quorum present.
35 ELIGIBILITY • The precise format of the report may be • U.S. citizen 18 years of age or older based on similar report formats for other who resides in Fresno County. jurisdictional monitoring but must be separate from the comprehensive agency budgets and
• Not an elected official at any level government.
general and enterprise fund financial reports of
• Not a public employee from Fresno County, the cities and the County of Fresno and will be nor of any of the incorporated cities, in
prescribed by the Citizen Oversight Committee.
Fresno County, Caltrans, the Fresno County
Transportation Authority (Authority), or the RESPONSIBILITIES Fresno Council of Governments (Fresno COG). COC responsibilities generally • Restricted to individuals without economic include the following:
interest in any of the Authority's projects. • Receive, review, inspect, and recommend STAFFING action on independent financial and
• Fresno COG will staff the Committee and performance audits related to the planning and implementation of the Measure C
provide technical and administrative assistance
to support and publicize the Committee's Extension program. activities, with the staff assignment subject to • Receive, review, and recommend action on approval of the Committee. other periodic reports, studies, and plans from • Fresno COG services and any necessary responsible agencies including the Authority, outside services will be paid using the Fresno Fresno COG, the Cities, the County or other County Transportation Authority's Measure C agencies. Such reports, studies and plans must be directly related to Measure C Extension
Extension Administration Program revenues.
programs, revenues, or expenditures.
• Expert staff may be requested to provide
• Review and comment upon Measure C
information and make presentations to the
Committee, as needed. Extension expenditures to ensure that they are consistent with the Expenditure Plan.
• The cities and County of Fresno shall each
• Annually review how sales tax receipts
provide to the Citizen Oversight Committee,
on an annual basis for a specific time period are being spent and publicize the results. prescribed, and in a timely fashion, a specific • Present committee recommendations, report on the local jurisdiction's planned findings, and requests to the public and budget for Measure C fund expenditures and the Authority in a formal annual report. financial report on the use of those funds.
36 FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact the Authority or Fresno COG to inquire about the Measure C Renewal Extension process, discuss the candidate projects and programs contained in this Plan or to learn more about the current Measure C Extension Program.
Fresno Council of Fresno County
Governments Transportation
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37 2022
Measure C
Renewal
Expenditure
Plan
FINAL
JULY 20, 2022
MEASURE
PREPARED BY IN ASSOCIATION WITH
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CONTENTS
Introduction 4.
Overview 5
The Measure C Renewal Program 5
Measure C Funding Allocations by Program
Public Engagement
Goals and Guiding Principles
Goal #1 8
Goal #2 8
Goal #3 9
Goal #4 9
Goal #5 10
... ..
Goal #6 10
Success of the Current Measure C Program 12
....
Annual Audit of Measure Programs 13
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How the Plan was Developed 13
Measure C Renewal Plan Executive Committee
Representative Sectors/Organizations 14
Expected Measure C Proceeds 15
County-wide Priorities of the New Plan 15
Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan Allocation of Funding by Program 16 Local and Neighborhood Street Repair and Maintenance 17 ...
Local Control 18
Urban and Rural Public Transit
Safe Bikes and Pedestrians 19
Major Road and Highways, Safety Improvement And Congestion Relief 2 Environmental Sustainability 20
...
Administration/Planning 22
.....
Compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act 22 ...
Measure C Extension Plan Projects
Project Commitments Major Road & Highways,
Safety Improvement and Congestion Relief Program 22
Regional Mobility Program Revenues 23
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Program Management 25
... . .
Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee (RTMF) Program 25 Tier 1 Urban Projects 27
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Tier 1 Rural Projects 30
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Tier 1 Urban Project Map 33
Tier 1 Rural Project Map 34
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Tier 2 Urban Projects 35
Tier 2 Rural Projects 39
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Citizen Oversight Committee 40
Administration 41
Fresno County Transportation Authority Structure
Under the Measure C Renewal Extension Program 41
For More Information 44
Appendix A 45
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Draft Measure C Renewal Ballot Language 45
Appendix B 45
Local Program Allocations by Agency 45
3 INTRODUCTION Through a series of public meetings, two public opinion polls, and thousands of online and in-
person surveys, the Executive Committee and
The Fresno County Measure C Renewal
Expenditure Plan was prepared to: TWG thoroughly considered needs identified by community residents during development
of the Plan. To ensure the Plan addressed
Guide the expenditure of slightly more
transportation needs of all county residents,
than $6.84 billion in transportation
the Committees completed the following tasks:
funds generated through continuation of
Fresno County's half-cent transportation • Reviewed Measure programs recently passed sales tax over the next 30 years, in other counties (best practices review). if approved by voters in the
• Listened to presentations by air quality and
November 2022 election.
transportation advocates and agencies.
• Considered recommendations
Fresno County's current Measure C Program, of transportation professionals. voter approved in 2006, expires in June 2027. • Heard innovative ideas related to This Renewal Expenditure Plan, developed new technologies in transportation. by an Executive Committee and a Technical
Working Group (TWG) consisting of • Developed Expenditure approximate 80 individuals representing Plan Goals and Objectives. diverse community interests (as identified • Considered public input. in Table 1 of this Plan), and local, state and
• Reviewed and considered the entire
regional agencies, will address major local
County's transportation needs by category.
and regional transportation needs in Fresno
County through the Year 2057.
OVERVIEW • Twelve percent (11.88%) of the Measure
funding allocated directly to Urban and
The Measure C Rural Public Transit systems and services Renewal Program throughout the County including Fresno
Figure 1 provides an overview of the proposed Area Express (FAX), Clovis Transit, and Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan funding the Fresno County Rural Transit Agency allocations approved by the Executive Committee (FCRTA). and the TWG. Referencing Figure 1, the • One percent (1.22%) of the Measure will be allocations consider a "multimodal" allocated to the Safe Bikes and Pedestrians transportation program with: program (including Safe Routes to School & Access for People with Disabilities) to address
• 51.37% of expected Measure funds directed
improvements and safety enhancements for
to "Fix-It-First" Local and Neighborhood
bicyclists and pedestrians, including students,
Street Repair and Maintenance activities seniors and people with disabilities, as well as and programs.
other related improvements.
• Eighteen percent (17.64%) of the funds
directed to the Local Control program. The
16 local agencies (cities and the County) in
Fresno County will allocate these funds to
their highest priority unique transportation
needs including additional local street and
highway maintenance and other street and
road improvements, pedestrian, trail, and
bicycle facilities improvements, safe routes
to school improvements, enhanced public
transit services, and other transportation
services and programs.
FIGURE 1
Measure C Funding Allocations by Program
Major Roads and
Highways, Safety
Improvement and
Congestion Relief
Local Control
$997,713,440
$1,208,794,520
Urban and Rural
Public Transit
Local and -
$811,953,000
Neighborhood
Street Repair and
Environmental
Maintenance
Sustainability
$3,511,000,000
$144,000,000
Administration
$86,058.856
Safe Bikes and
Pedestrians
Including Safe Routes
to School and Access for
People with Disabilities
$75,524,940
• Fifteen percent (14.60%) of the Measure • Two percent (2.00%) of the funds are will be directed toward Major Roads available for projects that enhance and Highways, Safety Improvement and Environmental Sustainability including Congestion Relief projects in the Urban clean transportation projects and programs, (Clovis and Fresno Spheres of Influence) and transit-oriented development projects, and Rural (remaining County and rural cities) other projects that will improve air quality, areas. Such projects will be located along the address climate change and improve health.
State Highway System and along regional
• Finally, one and one quarter percent
corridors to enhance connections within
(1.25%) of the Measure will address
the urban area and between the cities and
program Administration and
rural communities throughout the County.
planning activities of the Fresno County
Transportation Authority (Authority)
and the Fresno Council of Governments
(Fresno COG) over the 30-year period.
6 PUBLIC In total, fourteen (14) community
ENGAGEMENT meetings were held in both rural and
urban settings. Additionally, with COVID
Public engagement activities for the Measure concerns still prevalent, an Online Public C Renewal Expenditure Plan began with the survey was utilized that garnered 2,804 formation of the Executive Committee and total survey respondents, as well as 2,000 additional comments.
TWG in February of 2021. Over 80 local leaders
volunteered to participate as representatives of
The online survey also focused on rural and
diverse sectors of Fresno County from both urban
unincorporated areas by employing a door-
and rural communities. These leaders brought
to-door campaign. That effort produced 1,070
unique perspectives from various sectors of our
mostly Spanish respondents in the following
community including healthcare, education, local
communities: Cantua Creek, Lenare, Tranquility,
government, emergency services, transportation
Orange Cove, Parlier, Kerman, Mendota,
planning and facilities experts, environmental
Caruthers, Coalinga, Del Rey, Five Points,
organizations, public works, law enforcement,
Huron, Sanger, Kingsburg, and San Joaquin.
fire and paramedic, agriculture, community based
organizations, and more. Over the 16-month Members of the Executive Committee and the Measure C Renewal Process period, a total of 37 TWG are listed on the Measure C Renewal meetings were held between these two committees webpage at this link:
with the focus on identifying and evaluating
transportation needs throughout Fresno County.
www.measurec.com/
In addition to these two committees, community measure-c-committees engagement remained a key focus to gain clarity
and common ground. To that end, 10,000 Fresno Two-thirds (67%) voter approval will be necessary County residents participated in community to pass Measure C in November 2022. In order polling and outreach via the following methods: to ensure that Executive Committee and TWG members were on target with this Expenditure
• Public Polling Inquiries Plan, over 3,000 voters and community residents • In-Person • Events were surveyed early in the Plan development Workshops • Virtual meetings process to determine support for an extension of • Community Group via Zoom the Measure, and to identify the public's highest transportation priorities. An additional 3,000
Meetings • Online Public
voters were again surveyed in the spring of 2022
• Door-to-Door Survey
to confirm support for proposed expenditures.
7 Both polling efforts expressed widespread Goal #1
support for continuation of Measure Cand Equitable mobility and accessibility for all identified residents' highest transportation within and across the network of streets, priorities. The Measure C Renewal Plan effort
highways, transit, bicycle and pedestrian
was guided by development of the Fresno COG routes and facilities. 2022 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable
Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS). The RTP/ OBJECTIVES
SCS is intended to guide transportation and
land use decisions that will improve our • Encourage equitable participation by quality of life, air quality, mobility and make communities in the Measure C planning communities more cohesive. The RTP/SCS is and implementation process. updated every four years and has a robust outreach • Support the equitable distribution of benefits and stakeholder involvement process including and burdens of transportation projects. numerous committee meetings, public workshops • Support the improvement and expansion of and hearings, public surveys and polling, and accessible transportation options to serve other engagement opportunities. The RTP/SCS the needs of residents, especially those who integrates all modes of transportation along with
have historically faced disproportionate
land use, housing, environmental issues, reduction
transportation burdens, including seniors
of vehicle miles travelled, and other related issues.
and people with disabilities.
The RTP/SCS is one of the critical building blocks
that has helped guide development of the 2022 Goal #2
Measure C Renewal effort and identify needs and Vibrant communities that are accessible funding requirements.
by sustainable transportation options.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
GUIDING • Encourage alternatives to single occupancy
vehicles that reduce vehicle miles travelled
PRINCIPLES
(VMT) and greenhouse gas emissions.
Considering the public engagement activities • Support investment in and promotion of active conducted over the past 16 months, the transportation and transit to improve public Executive Committee and TWG adopted the health and mobility, especially in historically following set of goals and objectives to help underinvested areas. guide development of this Expenditure Plan:
• Support transportation projects that
support transit-oriented development.
8 • Support efforts to improve air quality and • Support the preservation and maintenance minimize pollutants from transportation. of existing multimodal transportation assets in a state of good repair.
Goal #3
• Utilize Measure funding to leverage other
A safe, dependable, well-maintained, efficient, local, state, and federal funds, including cost effective, and climate-resilient multimodal competitive grant programs. transportation network. • Ensure that growth does not adversely impact existing facilities.
OBJECTIVES
• Encourage on-going maintenance and Goal #4
repair of the existing infrastructure.
A transportation network that supports a
• Support investment in multimodal safety sustainable and vibrant economy. measures to reduce traffic fatalities and
injuries throughout the region. OBJECTIVES
• Support improvements in travel connections • Support local and regional economic to create an integrated, accessible, and development by leveraging planning and seamless transportation network. transportation funds that foster public and private investment.
• Avoid congestion through smart management
of existing transportation facilities. • Provide transportation mobility options • Add capacity only after other options have necessary to conduct essential daily activities been considered and determined to be and support economic growth and prosperity. infeasible, impractical or ineffective. • Support modern regional aviation. • Maximize the cost-effectiveness • Embrace cutting edge and fiscally responsible of transportation improvements. transportation and new technologies that serve • Maximize available funding and support to interconnect systems and that make travel more efficient and cost effective.
new investments that are targeted, effective,
and financially sound. • Support efficient, dependable, resilient, • Encourage investments that increase the and sustainable goods movement. system's resilience to extreme weather events,
natural disasters, subsidence, and pandemics.
9 Goal #5 Guided by the Executive Committee and TWG,
staff further distilled these goals and objectives
A region embracing clean transportation, into five guiding principles that were then used technology, and innovation.
to guide the development of the Allocation Plan:
OBJECTIVES Stewardship
• Fix it First.
• Support innovative mobility solutions that
are accessible, affordable, reduce greenhouse • County-wide Pavement Management Plan. gas emissions, and improve air quality.
• Oversight and Performance Measures, and
• Utilize current and emerging technologies Equity-"No Neighborhood Left Behind" to better manage transportation systems Equity
and services.
• Investment in active transportation and
• Improve predictability and reliability public transit to improve health and mobility of transportation facilities and services. throughout the County including historically underinvested areas.
• Embrace new and emerging intelligent
transportation system (ITS) projects • Improve air quality throughout the County, and programs. especially in historically disadvantaged areas.
Goal #6 • Ensure all areas of the County have their
road repair needs addressed with emphasis
A high level of transparency, performance
on areas not previously addressed-
review, and accountability.
"No Neighborhood Left Behind."
OBJECTIVES • Provide local jobs and access
to training opportunities.
• Provide for continuous collection of
transportation and other related data • Supplemental road repair funds for very low-income areas.
from available sources.
• Incorporate transportation performance • Expand new and innovative public transit services and solutions.
measures, whenever possible.
• Encourage innovation with a goal of providing Sustainability and Resources Conservation
cost effective transportation solutions.
• Maintaining and operating transportation
facilities are much less resource intensive
than rebuilding.
10 • Focus on maximizing the safety and Flexibility
efficiency of the transportation systems, • Expanded Local Needs program allows not on system expansion. real time and long-term flexibility- allows agencies to best address their current
• Roads, highways, and their adjacent
sidewalks are necessary for every type transportation needs and changing future needs, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
of transportation—cars, trucks, buses,
bicycles, and pedestrians. • Allows each agency to tailor the program to their specific needs.
• Electric vehicles will still
rely on roads and highways. • Allows agencies to maximize the use of matching fund programs.
• Provide for Complete Streets and roads that
accommodate vehicles, bikes, public transit • The amendment process contained within and pedestrians. the current measure and to be continued in this measure allows adaptability.
Air Quality and Climate Resiliency
• All projects require environmental • 15-year publicly driven process to evaluate review and must address air quality and the success or shortcomings of the Measure greenhouse gas emission reductions. Renewal with a process to change or adapt, • Well-maintained pavements reduce as necessary.
particulate matter PM10 and PM2.5, • In depth review of performance measures which are the primary pollutants every 5 years by agency staff and the Citizen referenced in the most recent air Oversight Committee (COC) with the quality study. ability to amend the Measure C Renewal
• Congestion reduction and avoidance through Expenditure Plan if key indicators are not met. better operations reduces tailpipe emissions Meeting the needs of Fresno County residents of pollutants, diesel exhaust particular matter requires leveraging State and federal investments and greenhouse gas emissions. with local resources. Even with a new Measure C • Reduce vehicle miles travelled (VMT) here will not be enough funding available to through Public Transit, Active Transportation, address almost $16 billion in transportation and road and highway projects. needs. The Measure C Extension will generate • Harden transportation facilities to increase more than $6.84 billion over the next 30 years, systems' resiliency to extreme weather events. far short of the overall need, therefore, leveraging additional federal and State funding, beyond
• Expand new and innovative public
what the region expects, is critical.
transit services and solutions.
11 SUCCESS OF • SR 180 West: Yuba to James
THE CURRENT Avenues Passing Lanes
• SR 180 East: Temperance to Academy Avenues
MEASURE C
• SR 180 East: Academy Avenue
PROGRAM
to Trimmer Springs Road
Many changes to the existing transportation • SR 180 East: Trimmer Springs system have occurred since voters first approved Road to Frankwood Avenue Measure C in 1986 and again in 2006. The • Friant Road: Copper Avenue current Measure C Program has provided to Millerton Road funding to a variety of transportation projects
• Golden State Boulevard: American
and services including bike, pedestrian and
Avenue to the Tulare County Line
trail projects, public transit improvements,
and other transportation programs and • SR 269: New Bridge/Channel services. New and improved regional and between SR 198 and City of Huron local streets and highways are also reflected • SR 180 West: SR 180 to I-5 in the current Measure C and have been or
• Mountain View Avenue: Bethel
will be constructed by 2027 improving travel
Avenue to the Tulare County Line
flow, increasing safety, and reducing severe
congestion. These improvements include: • Academy Avenue: Manning Avenue to Industrial Park
• State Route (SR) 41: Auxiliary Lane-
Tulare to "O" Street • SR 99 and American Avenue Interchange • I-5 and SR 198 Interchange
• SR 99: North to Cedar Avenues
• Funding for public transit services including
• SR 99: Monterey Bridge
Fresno Area Express (FAX), Clovis Transit, &
• SR 180 East: Clovis to Temperance Avenues the Fresno County Rural Transit Agency • SR 180: Brawley to Hughes/West Avenues • Improvements to local streets and • SR180, SR 41, and SR 168 Braided Ramps roads, bikeway and trails systems, • Willow Avenue, Temperance, Ventura, and pedestrian facilities California, Peach, Herndon, and Shaw Avenues
• Veteran's Boulevard-Shaw to Barstow
and Bullard to Herndon Avenues
• SR 99: Veteran's Boulevard Interchange
12 Promises Made and Promises Kept of the HOW THE PLAN
1986 and 2006 Measure C programs are WAS DEVELOPED
evident by the overwhelming voter approval
in Fresno County. In addition to the vast array The Measure C Renewal Executive of transportation improvements provided Committee and the TWG were formed by these two Measures, they have given in February 2021 to develop the Measure Fresno County the opportunity to compete C Renewal Expenditure Plan. The TWG successfully for additional State and Federal evaluated existing transportation systems transportation funding. and needs, and the Executive Committee The Authority, Fresno COG, the 16 local agencies established goals for the future. There was and the three transit agencies have all successfully recognition that this Measure C Renewal Plan needed to address the existing and
leveraged more than $1 billion additional dollars
from Sacramento and Washington D.C Extending future transportation needs, focusing on Measure C will continue to provide local funds local neighborhoods and community street under local control, in order to leverage and direct and road maintenance, as well as continuing additional state and federal funding to the County. investments in bicycle and pedestrian facilities, transit services, and reducing
Annual Audit of and avoiding congestion on our highways.
Measure Programs This Plan has built-in flexibility that will Current Measure C expenditures and accounts of allow our cities and County to adapt to their the local agencies and the Authority are audited specific transportation needs as they change on an annual basis by an independent audit firm over time. This Plan recognizes transportation programs that maintain and improve our
retained by the Authority. Over the past 34 years,
audit results have indicated that the Measure C quality of life and position us to provide the Program has been implemented, and proceeds type of facilities and services that will be expended, in accordance with the Measure C needed to address our future mobility needs.
Expenditure Plan and enabling legislation.
That practice will continue with this Measure C Members of the Executive Committee:
Renewal Program. Further, through the Citizens reviewed a variety of proposals, Oversight Committee and the Authority, additional considered public input and professional performance indicators will be monitored expertise, conducted two public opinion throughout the new Measure in order to assure polls, and reviewed data and literature that funds are invested efficiently and effectively. from other agencies to prepare this Plan. 13 Members of the Executive Committee
represented the interests of government,
business, and other sectors identified
in Table 1.
TABLE 1
Measure C Renewal Plan Executive Committee
Representative Sectors/Organizations
Sector/Organization
Active Transportation Disability Services Goods Movement Advocacy Services Eastside Fresno County Cities Health Care Services Agriculture Economic Development Labor
Americans with Disabilities Act Education (K-12 and
(ADA) Higher Education) Medical Systems
Building Industry Association Emergency Services Philanthropy Services Business Environment Technology
Cities of Clovis and Fresno Fresno Council of Governments Westside Fresno County Cities Community Based Organizations Fresno County Sheriff Youth/Advocacy Fresno County
County of Fresno Transportation Authority
A list of Executive Committee and
TWG members are available online:
www.measurec.com/
measure-c-committees/
14 EXPECTED expenditures and the promises made in this
MEASURE C plan. The Authority and Fresno COG will
also revisit this expenditure plan in 2042
PROCEEDS (midpoint of the Measure) to potentially
adjust the transportation programs and
If voters approve the Extension of Measure C associated allocations of Measure C proceeds in November of 2022, they will authorize
ensuring that the plan addresses the future
the Authority to continue to collect a ½ cent transportation needs of the county and retail transaction and use tax for 30 years
its residents as determined through a
(between July 1, 2027 and June 30, 2057).
comprehensive public engagement process.
This is not a new or an added tax, but simply Finally, the Authority will have the option of an Extension of the existing Measure C tax. issuing bonds to deliver Measure C projects and programs contained in this plan to save
This extension will: provide over project costs by delivering them earlier, and to $6.84 billion in new revenues provide Fresno County residents with much- for transportation improvements needed road repairs years sooner than would according to financial projections be possible without bonding. through the year 2057.
COUNTY-WIDE
The $6.84 billion this third Measure will PRIORITIES OF generate is four and one-half times the amount THE NEW PLAN that is expected to be collected during the
current Measure C Program (approximately
Through many months of intense discussion and
$1.2 to $1.5 billion) through June 2027. public input, the following Measure C Extension The allocation of these projected sales tax funding program commitments were developed revenues to specific types of transportation
and agreed upon by the Executive Committee
funding programs and improvement projects is and the TWG. The Committees recognized described in the following sections of this plan. that providing Measure C funds for all modes The Authority will prepare and then update of transportation would help meet the quality a Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP) every of life needs of all Fresno County residents, two (2) years in order to verify or modify
thus enabling each of the 16 agencies within
the funding expectations based on the then-
the County to address the specific needs
current fiscal conditions, making sure that of their residents, businesses, and major the projections are consistent with future
industries over the 30-year life of the Measure.
15 The new Plan will: Provide a minimum The Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan of 51.37% of the Measure to the 15 cities program allocations are detailed in Table 2. and Fresno County to maintain and Implementing Guidelines for each of the improve neighborhood and community seven Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan streets and roads. Further, it will fund programs are available on the Authority's public transit, regional highways, street website in early June 2022 at:
and road improvements, and other
transportation programs that improve www.measurecrenewal.com mobility while reducing greenhouse gas
emissions and improving air quality for
all residents throughout Fresno County.
The Plan is committed to "Fix-it First",
"No Neighborhood Left Behind" and
"Improve Safety" principles.
TABLE 2
Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan
Allocation of Funding by Program
Details regarding each of the seven programs are provided below. Appendix B provides the amount of Measure C Renewal funding each local agency is expected to receive over the 30-year period.
Measure C Renewal Program Percent of Total' 30-Year Funding Estimate Local & Neighborhood 51.37% 3,511,000,000
Street Repair & Maintenance
2 Local Control 17.64% 1,208,794,520
Safe Bikes and Pedestrians 1.22% 75,524,940
(Including Safe Routes to School
& Access for People with Disabilities)
Urban & Rural Public Transit 11.88% 811,953,000
5 Major Roads & Highways, 14.60% 997,713,440
Safety Improvement and Congestion Relief
Environmental Sustainability 2.00% 144,000,000
7 Administration 1.30% 86,058,856
Total 100% 6,835,044,756
1 Percentages Rounded to the nearest whole number.
16 Local and These expenditures would address one of the 1 most troubling transportation problems for
Neighborhood
Street Repair and local agencies; how to fund improvements that Maintenance address the aging street and road infrastructure while at the same time preserving roads that are
$3.511 billion or 51.37%
currently in good condition.
A significant increase in funding for our local
street networks including neighborhood streets A minimum base of $100,000 per year shall is clearly the greatest need expressed during the be allocated to each agency under the Local & public engagement process and in the two opinion
Neighborhood Street Repair & Maintenance
surveys. In fact, nearly 81% of those surveyed Program. Every agency that receives Local county-wide strongly agreed that repairing roads Street Repair Program funding must allocate and fixing potholes was their highest priority. no less than 30% of their allocation, as The goal of this program is to improve each of the determined on a 5-year rolling average, individual cities' and the County's unincorporated on areas within their jurisdiction that are areas and communities pavement condition index disadvantaged using the highest 25% census or PCI from the current County-wide average of tracks based on CalEnviro Screen 4.0 and 57 (just above the "Poor" category) to 70, which areas with a median income of less than 80% is within the "Good" category. Improvements that of the statewide median. Restriction remains will be made by the 15 cities and Fresno County to in effect until the Agency's average PCI for address the goal include: the Disadvantaged Areas reaches 65. Once the • Fixing potholes with long lasting repairs. average PCI of 65 is met, that 30% restriction is suspended, as long as those areas do not fall
• Repaving streets. below a PCI of 65 in subsequent years. Agencies • Keeping good roads in good condition must still continue to invest in those areas in through the strategic application of order to raise the overall PCI to 70. preventative maintenance strategies.
When the overall PCI of the streets within a
• Ensuring that all neighbors, especially jurisdiction either exceeds 80, or the lowest PCI those in disadvantaged areas, see
on any street within the jurisdiction is 70 or
improvements to their local roads.
higher, Local and Neighborhood Street Repair and
• Measuring and monitoring Maintenance program funds in excess of what is progress towards the 70 PCI goal. needed to maintain street condition above a PCI of • Providing additional resources 70 may be utilized as Local Control program funds. to areas of very low income.
17 Local Control Urban and Rural
2 3
$1.209 billion or 17.64% Public Transit
This program provides the local agencies $812 million or 11.88% flexible funding to address their most pressing The goal is to improve public transit programs that unfunded or underfunded transportation needs provide essential mobility services to residents within their jurisdictions. These funds would who do not have options, and for people who be used for a variety of purposes including: may have access to a vehicle but prefer to utilize transit; improve air quality, reduce greenhouse
• Repair sidewalks to create safe routes gas emissions, and help avoid congestion. to school and increase accessibility Transit provides essential services to those for people with disabilities. who have no or limited options. This plan • Supplement Active Transportation will allow for reduced transit fares for seniors, (bike, pedestrian and trails systems) projects. students, veterans and people with disabilities.
It is critical that we ensure the most flexible,
• Further improve public transit services.
reliable, predictable, and affordable transit
• Eliminate bottlenecks on local streets where
services are available for the transit dependent.
road improvements are not complete. Measure C Renewal funding is provided to the • Address environmental sustainability and other three (3) transit agencies within the county important transportation improvements. (Fresno Area Express, Clovis Transit, and the Fresno County Rural Transit Agency). The
The local agencies in Fresno County know
transit agencies would use the funds to:
what their needs are and how best to address
those needs. This plan empowers them to • Add routes as demand increases. make these critical choices for their residents
• Reduced transit fares for seniors, students,
and businesses.
veterans and people with disabilities.
Implementation of Opportunity Corridors is an • Acquire low or zero emission buses. eligible expense within the Measure C Renewal • Provide night and weekend Local Control Program. In addition, certain service as demand dictates. elements of Opportunity Corridors may also be
eligible within the Urban and Rural Transit, Safe • Provide safe, clean, and strategically located bus shelters.
Bikes and Pedestrians, Major Roads and Highways,
and Environment Sustainability Programs. • Provide safer access to public transit services. 18 The transit agencies would also In addition, as with the current Measure, all apply the Measure funds to provide: streets funded by Measure C must have shoulders that accommodate bike lanes. With a
• "Free or reduced fare bus service" to seniors,
few exceptions, these types of projects are very
students, and people with disabilities. low cost when compared to vehicular projects. • Provide new and innovative mobility for Measure C funding in this program should be seniors, students, and people with disabilities. utilized to the largest extent possible to enhance safety, increase availability and leverage these
• Implement innovative lower cost transit
solutions for un-served or under-served areas. State and Federal funding sources. • "Subsidized taxi scrip" to seniors Major Road and
5 (65 years or older) and people with Highways, Safety
disabilities resulting in better service to Improvement And those with special transportation needs and Congestion Relief the growing aging population in Fresno County. $997.7 million or 14.60% The core of the urban and suburban freeway
Transit funding is a significant part of the state
and expressway system has been completed,
and federal transportation funding programs.
and many improvements to rural highways
This has been an established trend that is
have been accomplished during the 1986 and
increasing over time. Measure C funding
2006 Measure programs.
should be utilized to the largest extent
possible to leverage these funding sources. Future improvements to the State Highway System need to be focused on:
Safe Bikes and 4
Pedestrians • Improving safety.
Including Safe Routes To
School and Access For • Reducing and avoiding future congestion.
People With Disabilities • Increasing sustainability.
$75.5 million or 1.22%
• Focusing on multimodal operational
Improvements to the existing and planned
pedestrian, trail, bicycle and Safe Routes to improvements such as auxiliary lanes, School systems have gained prominence around freeway interchange improvements, the State and within Fresno County. There are metering projects, demand management, significant opportunities for funding these types and Smart Corridor concepts that maximize of projects using state and federal funds. capacity of existing facilities. 19 These projects provide for the movement of federal grants, and the Regional Transportation goods, services, and people throughout the Mitigation Fee Program (RTMF). Overall, it county, as well as accommodating goods is anticipated that these programs will add movement from Fresno County industries to another $1.5 billion in funding to the nearly the rest of the State and the nation. Because $1 billion of Measure C funding included in this proposed Measure has a duration of 30 this Measure. Further, it is expected that there years, the Executive Committee and the TWG will also be some Local Development Fees agreed to identify a 15-year improvement included on some of these projects. program, with the second 15 years to be
The RTMF requires that new growth and
addressed near the midpoint of the Measure.
development within the county and each of the
This second 15-year plan will be developed cities contribute to regional street and highway after an evaluation of future needs as well as project costs. The RTMF program was originally an extensive public engagement process. established during the current Measure C program and will be continued under this
Major highlights of this Regional Program include: Measure. The purpose of this RTMF Program • Approximately $998 million or 14.60% for is to ensure that growth and development regionally significant street and highway pay their fair share of impacts to the county's improvements has been divided between transportation facilities. The RTMF is discussed the Urban and Rural areas of the county in more detail later in this Plan. with approximately $749 million or 75% to Environmental the urban areas of Fresno and Clovis and 6
Sustainability
approximately $249 million or 25%, to the $144 million or 2.00% remainder of the county (other cities and the
This program's goal is to improve air quality
county unincorporated area. This funding and greenhouse gas emissions by:
split generally reflects the relative populations
and needs of the urban and rural area. • Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled though support • $35 million will be invested in improvements of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and to Fresno Yosemite International (FYI) Airport. Opportunity Corridors (OC). TOD projects help support developments that will increase
This program relies heavily on leveraged demand for transit though higher density and funding from various sources including the mixed use. OC projects also support higher State Transportation Improvement Program, density and mixed-use developments through the State Highway Operations and Protection conversion of existing auto-centric streets into Program, the State Local Partnership Program, multimodal streetscapes. 20 • Clean Energy. Rather than identify a specific amount for each of • Travel Choice. these subprograms for the life of the Measure, this Renewal Expenditure Plan will allow the FCTA
• Future Technologies.
Board to make that determination every two (2)
• Litter Abatement. years as a part of the Measure C Expenditure Plan Update. For the initial two years of the
• Opportunity Corridors.
Environmental Sustainability Program the split
between these subprograms will be:
Subprogram Percent of Funding
Transit Oriented Development and Opportunity Corridors 0.66% Clean Energy 0.32%
New Technology Projects 0.59%
Travel Choice 0.29%
5 Litter Abatement 0.15%
Total 2%
21 Administration/ However, the Authority is not approving the 7 construction of any projects that may result
Planning
$86.06 million or 1.30% in a direct or indirect physical change in the environment; future voter approval is required
Measure C funding is provided to
prior to establishing any funding mechanism as
the Authority and Fresno COG to:
set forth in Measure C Enabling Legislation; and
• Prepare Expenditure Plan all appropriate state and federal environmental updates and amendments. reviews will be required and completed prior • Develop and administer allocation to any future approval of specific projects. program requirements.
• Administer and conduct specified activities MEASURE C identified in the other six programs described EXTENSION above including increased oversight and
PLAN PROJECTS
performance monitoring.
Compliance with the Project Commitments
California Environmental Major Road & Highways,
Quality Act Safety Improvement and
Congestion Relief Program
The Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan is not
a "project" under the California Environmental URBAN AND RURAL PROGRAMS Quality Act (CEQA) and, therefore, is exempt This section identifies priority regional streets and from CEQA review. The Plan is designed to highway improvement projects to be implemented provide a funding mechanism for potential future over the life of the Measure C Renewal Program. projects and programs related to the Authority's These projects will be funded with Measure C provision of transportation funding and services. and other transportation funding. Major Road & Highways, Safety Improvement and Congestion
Relief Program (MR&H) projects are defined
as those of regional significance. These projects
tend to be on the State highway system, as those
facilities are regional by nature; however MR&H
Program projects can also include projects on
major local arterials that serve more than one city
or area of the county.
22 Fresno Yosemite Airport (FYI) is also included the Authority and Fresno COG to more as a regional facility as it facilitates passenger accurately predict the first 15 years of and freight travel throughout the county as revenue and will initiate a "real time" well as surrounding counties. assessment of the second 15 years of funding availability in 2041 for review
Because the duration of this Measure is 30
and acceptance in 2042.
years, the MR&H Program has been split into
• Transportation innovations have tended to
two periods; years 1-15, and years 16-30.
occur at the micro level rather than at the
This program split provides a number of
macro. However, macro changes are possible
specific benefits:
and may be likely. A mid-program review will
• It is difficult to determine a comprehensive allow the Authority and Fresno COG, guided list of all regional transportation needs 30+ by an extensive public engagement effort and years into the future. This split approach input from the 16 local agencies, to adjust allows a focus on the first 15 years in order the list of projects for the second 15 years to to establish a firm need, and a second 15 better reflect future transportation needs. years that can be flexible.
The funding projections for the
• It is equally difficult to project 30+ years Measure are provided in Table 3. of revenue. The program split will allow
TABLE 3
Regional Mobility Program Revenues
30 Year Total First 15 Years Second 15 Years
Funding Source 30 Year Period, Year 1-15, Year 16-30,
2027/28-2056/57 2027/28-2041/42 2042/43-2056/57
Measure C Sales Tax $997,713,400 $339,912,500 $657,800,900 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) $430,275,000 $160,830,000 $269,445,000 Federal Aid (BUILD, RAISE, Etc.) $300,000,000 $112,133,000 $187,867,000 State Local Partnership (LPP) $150,000,000 $56,066,000 $93,934,000 State Operations & Maintenance (SHOPP) $200,000,000 $74,755,000 $125,245,000 Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee $450,305,000 $168,316,000 $281,989,000 Total $2,528,293,400 $912,012,500 $1,616,280,900
23 The funding split between the urban and rural Tier 1 projects are shown in Figures 2 and 3. subprograms was based on population, and on Tier 2 Project Lists can be found in Tables 6 the relative highway, street, and road needs of and 7. The Tier 2 lists provide priority projects those areas as described in the Table. that will be considered for Measure C Renewal along with other state, federal and local
This Expenditure Plan contains Tier 1 Urban funding in the second half of the Measure and Rural Project lists for the County (reference (years 16-30). The Tier 2 total costs currently Tables 4 and 5). The Tier 1 projects are included exceed anticipated funding in the second half in the initial 15 years of the Measure C Renewal of the Measure; and may be revised to reflect program while the Tier 2 lists are projects
future project priorities as they are identified
potentially eligible for funding in the second through the RTP/SCS planning process and 15 years of the Measure C Renewal program. through the Authority's and Fresno COGs Tier 1 Urban and Rural lists are both committed
public engagement process.
by approximately 20%. This allows the most
significant priorities for the urban and rural The Expenditure Plan also contains $35 areas to begin the project delivery process million for improvements at FYI Airport. during the first 15-year period.
Fresno COG and the Authority will conduct
It is possible that additional as yet unidentified biennial MR&H Program reviews and funding may become available. The region updates, the purpose of which will be to should have projects "shovel-ready" to ascertain project delivery status as well as take advantage of these types of funding validity of funding availability. Adjustments to opportunities. Should additional funding not delivery schedules and funding contributions materialize, these projects would be eligible may be necessary as a part of these updates. for bonding of second period revenues.
No later than June 30, 2027, Fresno COG and
A live link to the Measure C Projects the Authority will identify projects from the Tier interactive map is provided below or head to: 1 lists for the first seven years of the Measure https://bit.ly/measurecrenewal-interactive-map. C Renewal Program. These projects will be selected based on relative priority, deliverability,
and cash flow. No later than June 30, 2034,
View Map
Fresno COG and the Authority will identify
projects from the Tier 1 lists for years 7-15 of the
Measure C Renewal programs; again, based on
relative priorities, deliverability, and cash flow.
24 Beginning no later than 2041, Fresno projects contained within the Major Roads COG and the Authority will conduct a and Highways, Safety Improvement and comprehensive public engagement process Congestion Relief Program, and other to help guide the effort to establish the list of responsibilities necessary for efficient and projects to be funded during the second half effective implementation of the various of the Measure. No later than 2042, Fresno programs. Enhanced program management COG and the Authority will adopt a list of responsibilities are part of program Urban and Rural projects to be funded and project delivery and separate during the second half of the Measure. from Program Administration.
Construction of the Major Road and Highway Regional Transportation Safety Improvement and Congestion Relief Mitigation Fee Program projects and implemenation of the (RTMF) Program local streets and roads and other programs
The 2006 Measure C Renewal Expenditure Plan
identified in the Expenditure Plan are needed set forth requirements related to implementation as soon as possible. In order to accomplish
of the Regional Transportation Mitigation
this, some level of borrowing may be required. Fee (RTMF) Program. The 2006 Measure C The Authority will determine the extent of ballot included requirements for local Fresno borrowing that is reasonable as the program
County cities and the county (local agencies) to
is implemented. Up to $900 million (13%) of implement Regional Transportation Mitigation the revenues expected to be generated will be Fees pursuant to California Government Code made available for this purpose. Sections 66000, et seg. and remit the proceeds to Program Management the FCTA to supplement construction of projects in the Regional Transportation program. The
If approved by the voters, this Measure C ballot also included enforcement mechanisms Renewal will require substantially more
to ensure all Fresno County local agencies
monitoring, analysis, and reporting than the participated in the program. In response current Measure. The Authority may seek the
to those requirements, and to implement
assistance of a program management firm and/
a consistent regional fee, the local agencies
or additional staff. The primary responsibility formed a Joint Powers Agency (JPA), Fresno of enhanced program management would be
County Regional Transportation Mitigation Fee
to assist with the development and monitoring
Agency (FCRTMFA), pursuant to California
of performance measures as discussed in
Government Code Sections 6500, et seq.
the Renewal Expenditure Plan and in these
Implementing Guidelines. Enhanced Program
Management could also include managing
25 This Measure Renewal provides for the No later than June 30, 2027, all Measure C continuation of the RTMF program established agencies must extend the RTMF JPA established by the 2006 Measure, including all local agency as a part of the second Measure C, consistent enforcement mechanisms, the perpetuation of with Section 7 of the JPA Agreement. If any the Fresno County RTMF Agency through the city or Fresno County should choose to not life of the Measure and all adopted policies and implement the RTMF, that agency shall forfeit agreements currently in effect pertaining to annually from the Local Control Program, the mitigation fee program. The Measure also an amount equal to the amount of RTMF recognizes that mitigation fees are governed that would otherwise have been paid for by State law, which changes from time to time, development projects within that jurisdiction and stipulates implementation of the program during the year. If an agency chooses to not shall remain in compliance with California law. implement the RTME, that agency shall notify California statute currently requires a major the Authority of such decision and shall file update to the NEXUS in 2028, which will revisit an advisory report with the Authority for each how the fee has been spent on current projects, development indicating the amount of RTMF consideration of future projects, adjustments to that would have been paid. The Authority shall rates, and all other legal program requirements. make a total calculation of RTMF obligation on an annual basis and deduct the appropriate
The Authority, consistent with the adopted and amount of funds for the RTMF from the Local updated Measure C Expenditure Plan, shall have Control Program allocation for that agency. the authority and flexibility to allocate the RTMF
based upon regional priority need within the
county as defined by the biannual update of the
Major Roads & Highways, Safety Improvement
and Congestion Relief Program consistent with
State law governing impact mitigation fees.
26 TABLE 4
Tier 1 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 100 SR 41 /SR 168 / Urban Freeway Connectors - Caltrans $1,194,052 SR 180 Operational Improvement
Study within the FCMA as of
7/20/2022
101 SR 41 / SR 168 / Caltrans $119,405,230
SR 180 Upban Fee ay Connectors -
vithin the FCMA as of
7/20/2022
102 SR 41: Friant Rd Widen SB On-Ramp and Add 1 Caltrans $47,762,092 to Herndon Ave SB Auxiliary Lane - Operational
103 SR 41: Herndon Add Auxiliary Lane to SB SR-41 Caltrans $29,851,307 Ave to Bullard Ave Between Herndon Ave and
Bullard Ave
104 SR 41/ Shields Shields Ave Interchange Caltrans $11,940,523 Avenue Improvement: Expand the
NB Off Ramp to 2 Lanes
for the Full Length
105 SR 41: McKinley Add Auxiliary Lane to Caltrans $29,851,307 Ave to Shields Ave NB SR-41 from McKinley Ave
to Shields Ave
106 SR 41: Van Ness SR 41 Corridor Preservation Caltrans $1,194,052 Ave to San Joaquin Feasibility Study
River (NB/SB)
107 SR 41 / Van Ness Modify Interchange to Caltrans $17,910,784 Ave Interchange add a Direct SB On-Ramp;
Eliminate Broadway St / SR-41
SB On-Ramp; Signalize Ramp
Intersections with Van Ness St
and Add Ramp Metering
to New SB On-Ramp
108 SR 41 / SR 180 SR 41/SR 180 EB to Caltrans $59,702,615 NB Connector NB Connector
27 TABLE 4
Tier 1 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 109 SR 41, SR 99, SR Caltrans $89,553,922
168, SR 180 Smart
Corridor Projects
and SR 180 Within the FCMA
as of 7/20/2022) -
Operational Improvements-
110 SR 99 / Ashlan Ave Reconstruct Interchange - Caltrans $83,583,661 Interchange Includes Golden State Blvd
111 SR 168 Owens Replace At-Grade Intersection Caltrans $59,702,615 Tountain Parkwa with Interchange
terchang
112 SR 99 / Shaw Ave Reconstruct Interchange Caltrans $95,524,184 Interchange
113 SR 99 / Stanislaus Reconstruct Overcrossing - Caltrans $- St Interchange Operational - Included for
eligibility purposes only. 100%
State Funding is Anticipated
114 SR 99 / Tuolumne SR 99/Tuolumne Interchange - Caltrans St Interchange Operational - Included for
Eligibility Purposes Only. 100%
State Funding is Anticipated
115 SR 168 Various Locations; Fowler Ave, Caltrans $29,851,307 Interchanges Bullard Ave, Herndon Ave, Shaw
Ave, & Temperance Ave
116 SR 180 WB to NB Add Additional Lane- Caltrans $23,881,046 SR 99 Connector Operational
117 Blackstone Ave Grade Separate Blackstone Fresno
& McKinley Ave Ave and McKinley Ave to
BNSF Grade Eliminate Existing BNSF At
Separation Grade Crossings - Included
for Eligibility Purposes Only.
Current Measure C (MC2)
Funding is Expected to
Complete the Project.
28 TABLE 4
Tier 1 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 118 Blackstone Bus Blackstone Ave betweer Fresno $5,000,000 Rapid Transit Dakota Ave and SR 180: 6 Lanc
(BRT) Corridor:
Smart Mobility
Improvements
Transit and Pedestrian-Scale
119 East/West Corridor Improvements to Fresno $40,000,000 Corridors West Widen from 2 Lane Undivided
of SR 99 (Shaw, to 4 Lane Divided with Bike
Ashlan, Clinton & Lanes, Sidewalks, Traffic Signals
McKinley Avenues) and Synchronization
between SR 99 and
Grantland Ave
120 Herndon Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Clovis $42,527,367 121 Shepherd Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 3 Lane Clovis $13,289,802 Clovis Ave to Divided, Sidewalks, Bike Lanes
Fowler Ave Street Lights, Curb and Gutter,
Fiber Optics
122 Shepherd Ave: 3 Lane Divided to 4 Lane Clovis $11,960,822 Clovis Ave to Divided, Sidewalks, Bike Lanes,
Fowler Ave Street Lights, Curb and Gutter,
Fiber Optics
123 3 Lane Divided to 4 Lane Clovis $7,973,881
Divided, Sidewalks, Bike Lanes,
Street Lights, Curb and Gutter,
Fiber Optics, Traffic Signal at
Shepherd Ave and Armstrong
124 Temperance Ave: Widen from 2 Lane Undivided Fresno $10,800,000 SR 180 to to 6 Lane Divided with Bike
Clinton Ave Lanes, Trail, Sidewalks, Curb
and Gutter
Total $832,460,570
29 TABLE 5
Tier 1 Rural Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 300 SR 33: Caltrans $10,746,471
Firebaugh to
Mendota
301 SR 43: Passing Lanes Caltrans $11,940,523
SR 99 to Kings
County Line
302 SR 99 / Mendocino Modify/Reconstruct Interchange Caltrans $12,800,000 Interchange
303 SR 99: Dual Roundabout Interchange - Caltrans $10,746,471 Mountain View
Ave and SR 99 aligned at Highway 99 at
the existing Mountain View
vercrossing to align and t
uild roundabout intersectio
control on both sides. Potential
partnership with TCAG.
Total Cost $18M
304 SR 99 / SR 43 / Reconstruct Interchange - Caltrans $29,851,307 Floral Ave Partial Funding -
Interchange S90M Total Cost
305 SR 145 Widen 2 Lane Undivided to Caltrans $6,018,024 (Madera Ave): 4 Lane Divided, Sidewalks,
0.12 Mile N/O Bike Lanes, Curb and Gutter,
Whitesbridge Ave Streetlights
to 0.25 Mile N/O
Nielsen Ave
306 SR 168/ Academy Construct Roundabout- Caltrans $4,179,183 Ave Roundabout 67% SHOPP Funding
307 SR 180 / Academy Add Right Turn Channelization - Caltrans $5,970,261 Ave Intersection Operational -
50% SHOPP Funding
308 SR 180: Add Passing Lanes between Caltrans $10,746,471 Between Kerman Kerman and Mendota -
and Mendota Operational
309 SR 180 West: 2 Lane on New E-W Alignment- Caltrans $95,524,184 I-5 to Junction Phase 1
SR 33 / SR 180
30 TABLE 5
Tier 1 Rural Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 310 SR 198: Idd Passing Lanes betweet Caltrans $10,746,471 NAS Lemoore VAS Lemoore and I-5
and 1-5 Operational
311 SR 269 / SR 145 Intersection Improvements Caltrans $- Operational (Roundabout) -
Ancipate Funding is
312 SR 269 / SR 198 Intersection Improvements Caltrans
Anticipated
313 Academy Ave long Academy Ave from S Various $23,881,046 19 to SR 168, Reconstruct an
Rectangular-Rapid Flashin
beacons, Install Sidewalk
Install Lighting, Add Bufferec
Bike Lanes and Provision for
Connectivity to Potential Future
314 Academy Ave - Bridge/Roadway Widening Parlier $6,328,477 City Limits to
Dinuba Ave
315 ayne Ave 2 Lane Undivided Fresno $362,992
ilenn Ave to I- to 4 Lane Divided County
316 Manning Ave Along the Corridor from SR 99 Various $9,552,418 East of SR 99 to Orange Cove City Limits,
Reconstruct and Rehabilitate
Pavement, Install Traffic Signals,
Add Vehicle Turn Lanes, Provide
Crosswalk Improvements,
Install Sidewalk, Add Buffered
Bike Lanes and Provision for
Connectivity to Potential Future
ATP Projects
31 TABLE 5
Tier 1 Rural Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 317 Millerton Rd Friant Rd to Sky Harbor Dr- Fresno $35,821,569 Widen to 4 Lanes Divided. County
Total Cost $40M
318 Reed Ave Reconstruction of Roadway, Reedley $5,000,000 Reconstruction -
Phase 2
319 Reed Ave - South Widen Reed Ave from 2 Lanes to Reedley $29,851,307 Ave to SR 180 4 Lanes from South Ave to SR 180
Total: $320,067,175
32 FIGURE 2
Tier 1 Urban Project Map
FRIANT
• Tier 1 Projects
Tier 2 Projects
AUBERRY
Fresno Incorporated Area
Clovis Incorporated Area
Fresno Sphere of Influence
Clovis Sphere of Influence
*I COPPER
Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area
121 123
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NEES
102 -103- 120 ALLUVIAL
HERNDON
109 103 -115
-105 SIERRA
BULLARD
112 1001 109 BARSTOW
0051
SHAW
100 FGETTYSBURG
100 109
LASHLAN
110- T 100 DAKOTA
109 110- SHIELDS
105
107 -105 101S
100 124
227 OLIVE
109 BELMONT
108 TULARE
KINGS CANYON
•CALIFORNIA -107 1226
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GRANTLAND BRYAN HAYES POLK AMERICAN LOCAN DE WOLF LEONARD MCCALL CORNELIA BLYTHE ORANGE CEDAR: MAPLE 1. CHESTNUT WILLOW L PEACH MINNEWAWA CLOVIS SUNNYSIDE FOWLER ARMSTRONG TEMPERANCE ROAD A
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34 Not to scale
Coalinga
Tier 2 Projects
• Tier 1 Projects 310
306
Tier 1 Rural Project Map
FIGURE 3
TABLE 6
Tier 2 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 200 SR 41 / Ashlan Ave Ashlan Avenue Interchange Caltrans $136,133,075 Improvement - Reconfigure
Interchange to either a Single
Point Urban Interchange
(SPUI) or a Diverging Diamond
Configuration. Additional Study
Required to Determine the
Appropriate Design
201 SR 41 / Bullard Ave Caltrans $136,133,075
nterchange to either a Single
Point Urban Interchange
202 SR 41 / Divisadero Reconfigure for SB Dual Right Caltrans $4,946,168 St On/Off Ramps Turns; and EB Dual Left Turns
on Divisadero at NB On-Ramp
203 SR 41 / Shaw Ave haw Avenue Interchang Caltrans $30,251,794 nprovement - Add a 3rd Lat
o the SB On Ramp for Ramp
Meter Queuing and a 3rd Lan
to the SB OfF-Ramp at the
Terminus
204 SR 41: Corridor Preservation Caltrans $411,424,405
Van Ness Ave to the Operational Improvement
San Joaquin River Projects
205 SR 41, SR 99, SR Smart Corridor Projects ($5 Caltrans $204,199,613 68, SR 180 Sma million / Mile @54 Miles
orridor Proiec along SR 41, SR 99, SR 168
as of 7/20/2022) Operational
Improvements - Phase 2
206 SR 99: Central Ave / Chestnut Ave / Caltrans $164,872,280 Central Ave & SR 99 - Improve Interchange
hestnut Av Dependent on the Extension c
terchane leasure C
35 TABLE 6
Tier 2 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 207 SR 99 / Widen Undercrossing Fresno $32,160,683
Herndon Ave to 5 Lanes
208 SR 168/ Shepherd New Interchange Clovis $75,758,056 Ave Interchange
209 Blackstone Bus Blackstone Ave between Dakota Fresno $75,629,486 Rapid Transit Ave and SR 180: 6 Lane Divided
(BRT) Corridor - to 4 Lane Divided with Class
Smart Mobility IV Bicycle Facilities, Midblock
Improvements Pedestrian Crossings, Transit
and Pedestrian -
210 Clovis Ave: Construct new 4 Lane divided Clovis $12,100,718 Auberry Rd arterial with bike lanes, traffic
ouplet Nor signal at Copper and Clovis
Copper A Avenues
211 Clovis Ave: Unconstructed to 6 Lane Clovis $10,966,276 Behymer Ave Divided, Sidewalks, Bike
to Copper Ave Lanes, Street Lights, Curb and
Gutter, Fiber Optics, Bridge at
212 Copper Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 6 Lane Clovis $22,688,846 Willow Ave to Divided, Sidewalks, Bike Lanes,
Clovis Ave Street Lights, Curb and Gutter
iber Optics
213 Enterprise Trail Pedestrian Bridge Over SR 168 Clovis $37,814,743 East of Temperance
214 Grantland Ave: 4 Lane Divided 6 Lane Divided Fresno $9,075,538 Ashlan Ave to with Bike Lanes, Sidewalks,
N Parkway Dr Curb, Gutter, and Trail
215 Grantland Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Fresno $14,265,701 Belmont Ave to Divided with Bike Lanes,
Shields Ave Sidewalks, Curb, Gutter,
and Trail
36 TABLE 6
Tier 2 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 216 Grantland Ave: Grantland Ave - SR 180 to Fresno $10,746,471 SR 180 to Belmont: 2 Lane Undivided
Belmont Ave to 4 Lane Divided
217 Jensen Ave: 4 Lane Divided 6 Lane Divided Fresno $18,559,476 Clovis Ave to with Class 1 Bike Path / Trail
Temperance Ave
218 Jensen Ave: Fruit 2 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Fresno $7,305,808 Ave to Martin Divided with Bike Lanes,
Luther King Blvd Sidewalks, Curb, Gutter,
and Trail
219 Jensen Ave: Marks 2 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Fresno $10,966,276 Ave to Fruit Ave Divided with Bike Lanes,
Sidewalks, Curb, Gutter,
and Trail
220 Jensen Ave: 4 Lane Divided 6 Lane Divided Fresno $32,475,301 Orange Ave to with Bike Lanes, Sidewalks,
Clovis Ave Curb, Gutter, and Trail
221 McCall Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to Clovis $37,814,743
Shaw Ave to 6 Lane Divided, Sidewalks,
Shepherd Ave Bike Lanes, Street Lights,
Curb and Gutter, Fiber Optics;
Primarily Development Funded
222 Shaw Ave: 4 Lane Divided to Fresno $4,053,740
lythe Ave t 6 Lane Divided
rawley Av (Retrofit)
223 Shaw Ave and Install Traffic Signal, Widen Clovis $1,925,527 Leonard Ave Shaw Ave for Second Through
Lane and Left-Turn Lanes
224 Shepherd Ave: 2- and 3-Lane Undivided to 4 Clovis $30,251,794 Armstrong Ave Lane Divided, Sidewalks, Bike
to Del Rey Ave Lanes, Street Lights, Curb and
Gutter, Fiber Optics
225 Shepherd Ave: 3 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Fresno $1,512,590 Cedar Ave to Divided with Bike Lanes and
Willow Ave Sidewalks, Curb & Gutter
37 TABLE 6
Tier 2 Urban Projects
Project ID Title Description Agency Inflated Project Costs 226 Temperance Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 6 Lane Fresno $27,831,651 Jensen Ave to Divided with Bike Lanes, Trail,
Belmont Ave Sidewalks, Curb and Gutter
227 Temperance Ave: Widen from 2 Lane Undivided Fresno $20,006,549 SR 180 to to 6 Lane Divided with
Clinton Ave bute and rai, sidewalks
228 Willow Ave: Complete widening to 6 Lane Clovis $1,683,512 Barstow Ave to Divided Where Needed and
Copper Ave Add Bike Lanes
229 Willow Ave: 2 Lane Undivided Fresno $7,425,303
Ciner Ave to to 4 Lane Divided County/
City of
Fresno
230 Willow Ave: Willow - International Ave Fresno $946,881 International Ave to Copper Ave Southbound:
to Copper Ave Widen to 3 Lanes
Southbound
Total: $1,591,926,081
38 TABLE 7
Tier 2 Rural Projects
Inflated
Project ID Title Description Agency Project Costs
400 SR 41: Upgrade Existing Intersections Caltrans $143,696,024 Central Ave to to Interchanges
American Ave
401 SR 99/ Adams Interchange Improvements Caltrans $30,251,794 Interchange
402 SR 99 and Dinuba Construction of Flyover from SR Selma $60,503,589 Fly-Over 99 to New Intersection at Golden
State Blvd near Dinuba Ave
403 SR 99 / Manning Interchange Improvements Caltrans $22,688,846 Ave Interchange (Ramp Improvements)
104 SR 145 Widen 2 Lane Undivided to Caltrans $9,075,538 (Madera Avenue): 4 Lane Divided, Sidewalks,
Church Ave to Bike Lanes, Curb and Gutter,
0.25 Mile S/O Streetlights
Jensen Ave
405 SR 180 West: 2 Lane on New E-W Alignment - Caltrans $60,503,589 I-5 to Junction SR Phase 2
33 / SR 180
406 Academy Parkway: New 4 Lane Expressway Kingsburg $9,075,538 Mountain View
Ave to Simpson St
407 Manning Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Fresno $12,961,381 Alta Ave to Divided County/
Hill Ave City of
Reedley
408 Manning Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to 4 Lane Fresno $16,695,965 Buttonwillow Ave Divided County/City
to Alta Ave Reedley
409 Manning Ave: Reconstruct and Widen Manning Reedley $6,050,359 Buttonwillow Ave Ive from 2 to 4 Lanes betwee
to Englehart Ave buttonwillow Ave and Englehart Av
410 McCall Ave: Lane Widening - 2 to 4 Lanes Fresno $15,000,000 Griffith Ave to SR County
180
39 Inflated
Project ID Title Description Agency Project Costs
411 Millerton Rd & Traffic Signal Fresno $5,294,064
Marina Dr County
412 Shaw Ave and Install Traffic Signal; Widen for Fresno $2,849,719 Academy Ave NB & SB Right-Turn Lanes; County
WB Right-Turn and Left-Turn
Lane; EB Right-Turn Lane
413 Shaw Ave: 2 Lane Undivided to Fresno $19,875,429
McCall Ave to 4 Lane Divided County
Academy Ave
Total: $414,521,837
40 • Receive, review, and recommend action
CITIZEN
on other periodic reports, studies, and
OVERSIGHT plans from responsible agencies including
COMMITTEE the Authority, Fresno COG, the Cities, the
County or other agencies. Such reports,
A Citizen Oversight Committee (COC) was studies and plans must be directly related to established as a part of the 2006 Measure. That Measure C Extension programs, revenues, committees efforts have been helpful in analyzing or expenditures. local agency conformance to Expenditure Plan • Review and comment upon Measure C requirements. Each year their findings are an Extension expenditures to ensure that they important part of the Measure C Annual Report. are consistent with the Expenditure Plan.
This proposed Measure will continue efforts of
• Annually review how sales tax receipts are
the COC with a number of key changes to help
being spent and publicize the results.
increase local agency accountability for Measure
C funds spent, and to make it easier to ensure that • Present committee recommendations, all COC seats remain filled during the duration findings, and requests to the public and of the Measure (reference the Implementing the Authority in a formal annual report.
Guidelines available online in June 2022 at
www.measurecrenewal.com).
Additional responsibilities and minor changes
to COC membership are also included in the
Implementing Guidelines. COC responsibilities
generally include the following:
• Receive, review, inspect, and recommend
action on independent financial and
performance audits related to the planning
and implementation of the Measure C
Extension program.
41 The enabling legislation requires that the Authority
ADMINISTRATION
be represented by nine (9) members including:
Fresno County Transportation • Two (2) members of the Board of Supervisors Authority Structure appointed by the board, consisting of one (1) Under the Measure C
member from Rural district 1, 4, or 5 and one
Renewal Extension Program (1) member from Urban district 2 or 3.
The Authority will continue to administer the • Two (2) members representing the City of Measure C Renewal Extension Program in Fresno, consisting of the mayor thereof and compliance with its special enabling legislation.
a member of the city council of that city
If the Measure C Extension is approved by Fresno appointed by the city council.
County voters in November 2022, the Authority
• One (1) member representing the City of
will continue to be responsible for administering
the Measure C Programs in accordance with Clovis appointed by the city council of that city. plans and programs outlined in the Renewal • Two (2) members representing the other Expenditure Plan and subsequent updates of the cities within the county, consisting of one (1) Plan. In addition, the enabling legislation includes Westside member appointed by a committee provision for a Citizen Oversight Committee comprised of the mayor or each of those (COC). The COC was formed in 2007 under the cities west of State Route 99, and one (1) current Measure Program. Details regarding the Eastside member appointed by a committee Committee are contained in the Implementing comprised of the mayors of each of those Guidelines. The Expenditure Plan will continue cities east of State Route 99. to be prepared by the Authority and Fresno COG • Two (2) members of the public-at-large, and approved by the Fresno COG Policy Board consisting of one member appointed by the and by the Authority. board of supervisors with the appointee residing outside of the incorporated areas
of Fresno and Clovis, and one member
appointed jointly by the cities of Fresno and
Clovis with the appointee residing within
the incorporated area of Fresno or Clovis.
42 The 2006 Measure C Extension added two new modes (streets, highways, public transportation, members to the Authority Board. These two bikeways, aviation, etc.). If funds are available positions were identified as "Public Members-at- for any projects beyond those listed in Large" with one seat identified as urban and one the Renewal Expenditure Plan, they will as rural. The urban member was to be appointed be drawn from that list. As stated before, jointly by the City of Fresno and City of Clovis, all updates of the Renewal Expenditure Plan while the rural member was to be appointed will be subject to public review and public by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors. hearings. While these candidate projects may It has been difficult to keep the urban seat change and priorities for funding may occur, filled. Under this proposed Measure C Renewal there are more than enough project needs Program, the urban member appointment within the County to be addressed using will remain the responsibility of the two cities all types of funding, including Measure C. and the rural member appointment will be It will be vital during development of each the responsibility of the Board of Supervisors. Expenditure Plan Update to consider financing However, if either position remains unfilled for all transportation modes in order to ensure a nine (9) consecutive months, said member(s) will balanced and efficient transportation system. be appointed by the Authority Executive Director: All of the projects and programs included in An appointee of the Executive Director will serve the Expenditure Plan are considered essential to a full term, after which the responsible agencies meet the transportation needs of Fresno County. will have an opportunity to choose the successor.
Measure C Expenditure Plan Update
As with the current Measure C Program, Fresno COG preforms a biennial update of the the goal of the Authority and Fresno COG approved Expenditure Plan. Fresno COG and will be to continue to fulfill the Promise of Authority staff work with member agencies and Measure C by delivering projects. affected stakeholders to review and update the Expenditure Plan taking into consideration the
PLAN UPDATE AND status of project delivery, funding availability,
APPROVAL PROCESSES
and performance indicators. The Fresno COG
Regional Transportation Plan and Policy Board receives the Draft Expenditure Sustainable Communities Strategies
Plan and its updates and schedules public
In compliance with schedules mandated in
hearings to review the Plan. After adoption of
federal and State law, Fresno COG regularly
prepares the Regional Transportation Plan/ any Expenditure Plan updates by the Policy Board, the Plan is transmitted to the Authority
Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS)
for their consideration and approval.
every four (4) years that updates and renews a
list of candidate projects for all transportation
43 Strategic Implementation Plan The Authority shall notify Fresno COG, The Authority will prepare a Strategic the Board of Supervisors, and the city council Implementation Plan which provides of each city in the county and provide them detailed guidance to local agencies on the with a copy of the proposed amendments. use of Measure C funds. The Authority The amendment is then approved by the updates this plan every two years. Board of Supervisors and then approved by a majority of the cities constituting a majority of
Expenditure Plan Amendments the population residing in the incorporated Fresno COG has the primary responsibility areas of the county. The proposed amendments for initiating official amendments of the shall become effective immediately upon Expenditure Plan. Fresno COG prepares completion of the approval process. proposed amendments to be considered by the
COG Policy Board. Amendments approved by Independent Financial Audits the Policy Board are then transmitted to the Currently, the Authority annually commissions Authority for consideration. If approved by the independent financial audits of the Measure C Authority Board, amendments are incorporated programs and receipts. If the Measure is renewed into the Expenditure Plan. by the voters, the Authority would continue to conduct independent financial audits
The Authority Board may also initiate Expenditure consistent with its enabling legislation.
Plan amendments. The Authority shall take
all appropriate actions to give highest priority Bonding to the projects and programs in the approved The FCTA Board may consider bonding Expenditure Plan, and if any amendments delay or of future revenues if project needs, and delete any project in the initial plan, the Authority deliverability exceed cash flow. Bonding will shall hold a public hearing and adopt a resolution not be used until first determining that the initiating the amendments. benefits of accelerated project or program delivery outweigh the additional cost of
interest on narrowed funds.
44 FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact the Authority or Fresno COG to inquire about the Measure C Renewal Extension process, discuss the candidate projects and programs contained in this Plan or to learn more about the current Measure C Extension Program.
Fresno Council of Fresno County
Governments Transportation
Fresno COG Authority
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Visit the Fresno COG Website at Visit the Authority Website at www.fresnocog.org for more information, www.measurec.com for more information, to sign up for our email list, and to receive to sign up for our email list, and to receive updates on Measure C planning activities. updates on current Measure C projects.
A copy of the implementing guidelines will be available June 2022 at:
www.measurecrenewal.com
MEASURE
C
45 APPENDIX A
Draft Measure C Renewal
Ballot Language
Without raising tax rates, shall an ordinance
to repair potholes, keep local roads in good
condition; upgrade structurally declining
bridges/overpasses; improve highway safety,
911 emergency vehicle access, air quality,
public transit services; protect low-cost senior
transportation options and create local jobs;
be adopted, continuing the voter-approved
transportation ½¢ sales tax (established 1986),
providing approximately $228 million annually
for 30 years; requiring audits, public oversight/
spending disclosure, local control?
46 APPENDIX B
Local Program Allocations by Agency
Percentage MC 30-Year Allocation
Agency
Clovis 10.83% $519,210,059
Coalinga 1.55% $74,562,264
Firebaugh 0.77 % $36,943,703
-owler 0.68 % $32,599,858
Fresno 48.13% $2,307,800,260
Huron 0.69 % $33,128,585
Kerman 1.48 % $71,008,461
Kingsburg 1.29% $61,935,554
Mendota 1.12 % $53,838,196
Orange Cove 0.92% $44,073,084
Parlier 1.41% $67,641,387
Reedley 2.38% $114,213,410
San Joaquin 0.43 % $20,611,555
Sanger 2.51 % $120,149,116
Selma 2.24% $107,380,161
County of Fresno 23.57% $1,130,223,774
Total 100 % $4,795,319,460
Urban area receives the majority of the funding.
Transit Agency Formula Measure C 3 30-Year
Clovis 10% $81,195,300
FAX 70 % $568,367,100
FCRTA 20 % $162,390,600
Total 100% $811,953,000
Transit allocation split 70% FAX, 20% FCRTA, and 10% Clovis Transit. Estimates only and subject to change. 47