PREPARED BY: MATT RODRIGUEZ DATE OF MEETING: 06/162024
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CONSIDER ADOPTING RESOLUTION SUPPORTING STATE-WIDE AND REGIONAL FUNDING FOR BAY AREA PUBLIC TRANSIT AGENCIES, AND SENATE BILL 63 (WIENER/ARREGUIN) PROPOSED LEGISLATION FOR 2025-26
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS
The following Major Policy Areas: Building a Healthy Community and Enhance Community Resilience are contained in the recently adopted FY 2025-27 City Council Priority Work Plan, adopted April 7, 2025
BACKGROUND
On May 5, 2025, the City Council, by majority vote via minute action: (1) Acknowledged a list of active 2025-26 State of California Legislation recently introduced which may impact the City's adopted policy interests; and (2) Authorized the City Manager to coordinate any appropriate legislative advocacy, action or response on behalf of the City, jointly with Mayor Arturo Cruz and the City's Lobbyist, to any State Legislator(s), State of California Legislative Policy Committee(s), and/or Governor as deemed necessary.
Sustainable Transit Funding Needed
Bay Area regional transit agencies are facing substantial operating funding shortfalls to sustain vitally needed transit operations. Unfortunately, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is facing a projected budget shortfall of $385 million, and AC Transit is facing a shortfall of $60 million annually, and both agencies will face drastic service cuts by 2027.
The State of California has been underfunding transit operations state-wide as compared to many other states for decades. In 2019, transit agencies in the Bay Area received, on average, less than 16 percent of their operating funding from the state, compared to 21 percent state funding in Chicago, 30 percent in New York City, 44 percent in Boston, and 50 percent in Philadelphia.
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