Metro - File #: 2024-0998

• File #: 2024-0998
• Type: Program
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 10/9/2024
• In control: Finance, Budget and Audit Committee
• On agenda: 11/21/2024
• Title: CONSIDER: A. ADOPTING the revised Proposition A 5% of 40% Incentive Guidelines (Attachment A); and B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to amend existing agreements between Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and Local Transit Operators to incorporate guideline amendments, and execute all necessary future agreements as pertains to this program.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Access Services Inc., Agreements, Americans With Disabilities Act, Audit, Budget, Budgeting, Community Transportation, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Databases, Earmark, Federal Transit Administration, Guidelines, Local transportation, Paratransit services, Program, Prop A Incentive (Project), Proposition A, Section 5307, Strategic planning, Subsidies, Technical Advisory Committee, Test vehicles, Testing, Transit operators, Transit System, Vehicle tests

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FINANCE, BUDGET, AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 21, 2024


Subject
SUBJECT: PROPOSITION A 5% OF 40% INCENTIVE GUIDELINES

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION


Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. ADOPTING the revised Proposition A 5% of 40% Incentive Guidelines (Attachment A); and

B. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to amend existing agreements between Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and Local Transit Operators to incorporate guideline amendments, and execute all necessary future agreements as pertains to this program.

Issue
ISSUE

The Proposition A 5% of 40% Incentive (Prop A Incentive) Guidelines have not been updated since 2001. Due to COVID-19 pandemic impacts, in 2021 - 2024, program participants requested revisions to the criteria that govern Prop A Incentive funding distribution. This prompted Metro staff to work with program participants to update the guidelines to reflect the changing Los Angeles County transportation landscape and accommodate funding challenges that small local operators are experiencing while maintaining their transit systems.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Prop A Incentive Program earmarks 5 percent of the Proposition A 40 Percent Discretionary funding to promote projects that encourage the development of an integrated local public transportation system that addresses the varied transportation needs of Los Angeles County residents. This includes subregional paratransit, eligible fixed-route services, locally funded community-based transportation services and other specialized transportation services. This funding program was instituted to divert demand from costlier regional paratransit services (i.e. Access Services) by partially funding more cost-effective subregional services operated by local jurisdictions in their respective communities. An additional element of the Prop A Incentive Program consists of small Los Angeles County operators who voluntarily repor...