May 20, 2025
Public Works
DATE: May 20, 2025
TO: Mayor Martinez and Members of the City Council
FROM:
Daniel Chavarria, PE, Director of Public Works
Robert Armijo, PE, Deputy Director of Public Works / City Engineer
Hillal Hamdan, PE, Senior Civil Engineer
Subject:
Agreement with West Contra Costa Transportation
Advisory Committee (WCCTAC) for I-80/Central Avenue
Improvement Project Funding
FINANCIAL IMPACT: WCCTAC Board of Directors will fund this project and secure a single funding agreement for $1,811,000 in
Subregional Transportation Mitigation Program (STMP)
funds to City of Richmond for Engineering Grants.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL
ACTION:
None.
STATEMENT OF THE
ISSUE:
Public Works staff are recommending the approval of a
Cooperative Agreement that is needed for authorization
and transfer of the funds; the funds received are
considered new, unbudgeted revenue and will be
allocated to the Central Avenue project.
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
ADOPT a resolution to ACCEPT and APPROPRIATE the
Subregional Transportation Mitigation Program funds in
the amount of $1,811,000 to the City of Richmond and
AUTHORIZE the city manager to sign the cooperative
agreement with West Contra Costa Transportation
Advisory Committee - Public Works Department (Hillal
Hamdan 510-621-1612/Robert Armijo 510-620-
5477/Daniel Chavarria 510-620-5478).
DISCUSSION:
AGENDA
REPORT
May 20, 2025
The West Contra Costa Transportation advisory committee (WCCTAC) established its first transportation impact fee in 1997 through the Subregional Transportation Mitigation Program (STMP). These fees are authorized under Assembly Bill (AB) 1600, also known as the Mitigation Fee Act, which allows for the collection of fees to fund capital improvements that mitigate the effects of new development. The purpose of STMP is to ensure that new developments contribute to a range of regional transportation infrastructure projects. All projects are grouped into categories such as local street and intersection improvements, complete street projects, transit and station related improvements and freeway and interchange improvements.
On December 14, 2018, the West Contra Costa Transportation Advisory Committee (WCCTAC) Board of Directors approved an appropriation of up to $700,000 in 2006 Subregional Transportation Mitigation Program (STMP) funds to the City for the interchanges on I-80 at San Pablo Dam Road and Central Avenue. This project is considered a local street and intersection improvements category, one of the eleven categories identified in the 2006 STMP.
On September 29, 2023, WCCTAC Board of Directors approved an additional appropriation of $1,111,000 in 2019 STMP funds to the City to support the I-80/Central Avenue Interchange Improvements (Phase 2) Project. Furthermore, they approved combining the original funding allocation of $700,000 and the subsequent funding allocation of $1,111,000 into a single funding agreement of $1,811,000 in STMP funds to the City. Ultimately, the WCCTAC approved Resolution 24-01, authorizing the executive director to execute the funding agreement for $1,811,000, in STMP Funds for the I-80 Central Improvement Project (Attachment 1). This project was one of only 20 identified and funded in the 2019 STMP by the WCCTAC.
Given that the I-80 at San Pablo Dam Road project was completed in 2019, City staff are seeking adoption of a resolution to accept and appropriate funds and authorize the execution of the cooperative agreement between WCCTAC and the City of Richmond for an amount of $1,811,000 to support the I-80 /Central Avenue Improvements Project (Attachment 2 and 3).
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
Attachment 1 – WCCTAC minutes approving Resolution No. 24-01 Attachment 2 – Proposed Resolution
Attachment 3 – Conceptual Image of I-80/Central Avenue Improvements Project