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Commission Actions
December 2002

  • Revised the roles and responsibilities of the Commission’s advisory committees — the MTC Advisory Council, the Elderly and Disabled Advisory Committee and the Minority Citizens Advisory Committee — and set out the procedures as well as the membership and appointment process for each committee.
    (MTC Resolution 3516)
  • Adopted the final 2003 Legislative Program. Key elements at the state level include lowering the two-thirds super-majority vote requirement for local transportation sales taxes, increasing tolls on Bay Area bridges to enhance transit options and other commute al-ternatives in bridge corridors (with a congestion pricing pilot project on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge), and opposing a merger with the Association of Bay Area Governments. Among initiatives at the federal level, the program calls for a reauthorization bill that preserves the basic principles of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, which is expiring this year.
  • Awarded over $4 million through MTC’s Low-Income Flexible Transportation (LIFT) program to 14 programs that will increase transportation options for low-income persons seeking employment, and particularly for CalWORKS participants who are making the transition from welfare to paid employment.
    (MTC Resolution 3518)
January 2003
  • Adopted the 2003 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) as well as the Federal Air Quality Conformity Finding for the 2003 TIP.
    (MTC Resolutions 3500 and 3487)
  • Approved 10 planning grants totaling $500,000 through MTC’s Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) program to support community-oriented transportation projects in Brentwood, Colma/ Daly City, Cordelia, Fremont, Healdsburg, Larkspur, Millbrae, Santa Rosa, Walnut Creek and an unincorporated area of western Contra Costa County.
  • Acting as the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA), authorized the issuance of $300 million in toll revenue bonds to fund the Regional Measure 1 program of bridge improvements.
    (BATA Resolution 41)

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