1 RESOLUTION NO. 6672-2025
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEBASTOPOL APPROVING A LIST OF PROJECTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025-25 FUNDED BY SB 1: THE ROAD REPAIR AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT of 2017
WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Chapter 5, Statutes of 2017) was passed by the Legislature and Signed into law by the Governor in April 2017 in order to address the significant multi-modal transportation funding shortfalls statewide; and WHEREAS, SB 1 includes accountability and transparency provisions that will ensure the residents of our City are aware of the projects proposed for funding in our community and which projects have been completed each fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the City must adopt a resolution approving a list of projects proposed to receive fiscal year funding from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA), created by SB 1, which must include a description and the location of each proposed project, a proposed schedule for the project’s completion, and the estimated useful life of the improvement; and WHEREAS, the City is estimated to receive an estimated $218,537 in RMRA funding in Fiscal Year 2025-26 from SB 1; and
WHEREAS, this is the eighth year in which the City is receiving SB 1 funding and will enable the City to continue essential road maintenance and rehabilitation projects, safety improvements, repairing and replacing aging bridges, and increasing access and mobility options for the traveling public that would not have otherwise been possible without SB 1; and WHEREAS, the City has undergone a robust public process to ensure public input into our community’s transportation priorities/the project list; and WHEREAS, the City considered the Pavement Management System and other infrastructure priorities to ensure revenues are being used on the most high-priority and cost-effective projects that also meet the community’s priorities for transportation investment; and WHEREAS, the funding from SB 1 will help the City maintain and rehabilitate streets/roads, bridges, add active transportation infrastructure throughout the City this year and into the future; and
WHEREAS, the 2025 Pavement Management Budget Options Report, prepared by Capital Asset and Pavement Service, found that the City’s streets and roads are in “Fair” condition and this revenue will help us increase the overall quality of our road system and over the next decade will bring our streets and roads into a better condition; and WHEREAS, the SB 1 project list and overall investment in our local streets and roads infrastructure with a focus on basic maintenance and safety, investing in complete streets infrastructure will have significant positive co-benefits statewide.
Docusign Envelope ID: F3A1B798-4BB9-4E6F-ABCC-7F02CA2F0D5E 2 NOW, THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, ORDERED AND FOUND by the City Council of the City of Sebastopol, as follows:
1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct.
2. The following previously proposed and adopted projects may also utilize Fiscal Year 2025- 26 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues in their delivery. With the relisting of these projects in the adopted fiscal year resolution, the City is reaffirming to the public and the State our intent to fund these projects with Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account revenues:
Project Name Description Approx.
Locations
Est Useful
Life
Start -
Completion
(Mo/Year)
Bodega Avenue Bike
Lanes and Rehab
Phase 2
Install new ADA curb
ramps, bicycle, and
pedestrian, and
pavement improvements
Bodega Avenue from
Robinson Road to Pleasant
Hill Road; and approx. 200
LF at the city limit bridge
15 07/2023 –
12/2026
Bodega Ave.
Guardrails
Replacement
Replace guardrails from
western city limit to
Valley View Drive
Bodega Ave. from Valley
View Drive to western city
limit
15 10/2024 –
06/2026
3. The City Engineer is authorized to do everything necessary and appropriate to prepare and submit the required documentation to the CTC for the City’s SB 1 project list and the SB 1 expenditures reports for FY 2025-26.
The above and foregoing Resolution was duly passed, approved, and adopted at a meeting by the City Council on the 17th day of June 2025.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City of Sebastopol City Council by the following vote:
VOTE:
Ayes: Councilmembers Carter, Hinton, Maurer, Vice Mayor McLewis and Mayor Zollman Noes: None
Abstain: None
Absent: None
APPROVED: _______________________________________
Mayor Stephen Zollman
ATTEST: _______________________________________________________________ Mary Gourley, Acting City Manager/City Clerk, MMC
APPROVED AS TO FORM: __________________________________________________ Alex Mog, City Attorney
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