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Policy Advisory Committee

Thursday, April 14, 2005
4:00 PM

Conference Room B-104
Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)
3331 North First Street
San Jose, California

Agenda

1.

CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL

  
2.

ORDERS OF THE DAY

  
3.

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS: This portion of the agenda is reserved for persons desiring to address the Committee on any matter not on the agenda.   Speakers are limited to 2 minutes.  The law does not permit Committee action or extended discussion on any item not on the agenda except under special circumstances.  If Committee action is requested, the matter can be placed on a subsequent agenda.  All statements that require a response will be referred to staff for reply in writing.

  
4.

Receive Committee Staff Report.  (Verbal Report)  (Gonot)

  
5.

ReceiveChairperson’s Report. (Verbal Report)   (Kishimoto)

  
6.

Receive City Grouping Report. (Verbal Report) (Haywood)

  

CONSENT

7.

Approve Minutes of March 10, 2005.

  

BUSINESS REFERRED TO COMMITTEE BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS/ GENERAL MANAGER

8.

Review and recommend that the VTA Board of Directors approve the programming of FY 2005-06 Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program Manager (TFCA 40%) funds to projects, and further approve a fund exchange with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) whereby VTA would exchange TFCA 40% funds for Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) funds to be used to fund the Bicycle Expenditure Program (BEP) projects. (Gonot)

  
8.X.

Review and recommend that the VTA Board of Directors adopt a support position for SB 680 (Simitian), which allows the Board of Directors of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to impose a surcharge of up to $5 on motor vehicles registered in Santa Clara county for an eight-year period to fund various transportation improvements. (Gonot)

  
9.

Review and recommend that the VTA Board of Directors adopt the proposed process and criteria for programming federal Surface Transportation Program (STP) funds to local streets and roads rehabilitation projects in FY 2005-06. (Gonot)

  
10.

Discuss the Draft Long-Term Transit Capital Investment Program Public Review. (Gonot)

  
11.

Receive and file the Programmed Projects Quarterly Monitoring Report from January through March 2005. (Gonot)

  
12.

Receive and file the Service Management Plan, Fiscal Years 2006/2007. (Tucker)

  
13.

Review the Committee Work Plan.   (Mereigh)

  

OTHER

14.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  
15.

ADJOURN

  

NOTE COMMITTEE MEMBERS: In order to establish a quorum for this meeting, members are asked to call the Office of the Board Secretary (408) 321-5680 or E-mail: board.secretary@vta.org before 5:00 p.m. on the day prior to the meeting. Thank you for your cooperation.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), those requiring accommodations or accessible media for this meeting should notify the Board Secretary’s Office 48 hours prior to the meeting at (408) 321-5680 or e-mail: board.secretary@vta.org, TDD (408) 321-2330. VTA’s Homepage is located on the Web at: http://www.vta.org