City Council
259 N. Wilma Avenue
Ripon, CA 95366
MEMO
To: Honorable City Council
From: Lisa Roos, City Clerk & Finance Director
Date: 06/09/2026
Subject: TDA Claim 25-26
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve the City of Ripon Annual Transportation Development Act Claim and authorize submission to the San Joaquin County Council of Governments for the 2025-2026 Fiscal Year.
BACKGROUND:
On an annual basis, the City of Ripon is required to submit a Transportation Development Act Claim to the San Joaquin County Council of Governments in order to request Local Transportation Fund (LTF) and State Transit Assistance (STA) Fund Apportionments.
In the past, as long as there were no unmet transit needs within the City, the entire amount of LTF funds could be used for streets and road maintenance. The STA Fund Apportionment is used for the operations of the small bus.
DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS:
The City of Ripon allotment of LTF funds for the 2025-26 claim is $1,105,243. The San Joaquin County Council of Governments instituted a policy change beginning in July 2021, requiring 25% of the City’s LTF be “set aside” for transit purposes – even if there were no unmet transit needs, which is $266,601 in this 2025-2026 Claim. The remaining funds are designated for streets and roads maintenance.
Normally, for STA funds, one of the two Efficiency Standards, as summarized below, must be met:
1) The operator’s operating cost per revenue vehicle hour, in the latest year for which audited data is available, must not exceed the sum of the preceding year’s operating cost per revenue vehicle hour and an amount equal to the change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), multiplied by the preceding year’s operating cost per revenue vehicle hours. 2) The operator’s average operating cost per revenue vehicle hour, in the last three years for which audited data are available, must not exceed the sum of the average of the operating cost per revenue vehicle hour for the three years preceding the latest year for which audited data are available and an amount equal to the average in the CPI for the same period.
If either of these efficiency standards are not met, the City will still receive the entire STA allocation of funds, but only a portion can be used for operations and the remaining must be used for capital purposes. For the 2025-2026 Claim, neither of these standards were met, but this fiscal year is still exempt from meeting the efficiency standards, so we will receive our allotment of $15,096 without restrictions on the use of funds.
Attachments:
1. 2025-2026 Template TDA Claim
RESOLUTION NO. 26-19
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RIPON APPROVING THE ANNUAL TRANSPORTATION
DEVELOPMENT ACT CLAIM AND AUTHORIZING
SUBMISSION TO THE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY COUNCIL
OF GOVERNMENTS FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR OF
THE CITY OF RIPON
WHEREAS, previous hereto pursuant to the provisions of the Transportation Development Act of 1971, and amendments thereto, of the State of California, the City of Ripon has become eligible for certain monies pursuant to the above described Act; and WHEREAS, previous hereto the City of Ripon has been requested by the San Joaquin County Council of Governments to submit their annual transportation claim application for said funds; and
WHEREAS, the City Administrator has submitted to the City Council for its approval the proposed annual transportation claim application and supporting information and attachments pertaining thereto, and has requested authorization of the City of Ripon to submit said claim application to the San Joaquin County Council of Governments as required by law, and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Ripon has examined said claim application and supporting information and is desirous of approving the same and authorizing its submission to the San Joaquin County Council of Governments; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Ripon that the City of Ripon does hereby approve the submission of a claim application to the San Joaquin County Council of Governments, pursuant to the Transportation Development Act of 1971, and amendments thereto, for the funds available pursuant to said program to the City of Ripon in the total amount of $2,038,550.00 as follows:
Local Transportation Fund Apportionment, totaling $2,023,454.00 State Transit Assistance Fund Apportionment, totaling $15,096.00 Both Local Transportation Fund Apportionment and State Transit Assistance Fund Apportionment are for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, all as previously submitted to the City Council of the City of Ripon, and on file with said City Clerk.
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Administrator of the City of Ripon be and he is hereby authorized to take all steps which may be necessary to submit said claim application as hereinabove set forth to the San Joaquin County Council of Governments pursuant to its rules and regulations pertaining thereto, and the Transportation and Development Act of 1971, and amendments there to, of the State of California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Ripon this 9th day of June, 2026, by the following vote:
RESULT: ADOPTED BY CONSENT VOTE [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Leo Zuber, Council Member
SECONDER:Michael Restuccia, Council Member
AYES: Barton, Uecker, Restuccia, Zuber, de Graaf
THE CITY OF RIPON,
A Municipal Corporation
By ________________________________
GARY BARTON, Mayor
ATTEST:
By: ___________________________
LISA ROOS, City Clerk