Metro - File #: 2019-0210

• File #: 2019-0210
• Type: Motion / Motion Response
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 4/1/2019
• In control: Executive Management Committee
• On agenda: 4/18/2019
• Title: CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING AND FILING the response to Motion 32.3 (Congestion Pricing) by Directors Garcetti, Kuehl, Butts, Solis, and Hahn; and B. APPROVING Next Steps for Congestion Pricing Feasibility Study, which includes: * May 2019: Staff will issue Requests for Proposals for 1) Technical Services (includes Equity Analysis) and 2) Communications Plan and Public Engagement Services; * Summer 2019: Seek Board authorization to award contract; and * Ongoing: Staff will conduct ongoing dialogue with the Board at key milestones during the project development process. An overview of the anticipated process is provided in Attachment E Project Milestones. HAHN AMENDMENT ? Include a lane/different pricing model for the zero emission vehicles; and ? Include Board's ability to appoint the public partnership stakeholder panel and expand the number of the seats.
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Congestion pricing, Eric Garcetti, Funding plan, Hilda Solis, Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, James Butts, Janice Hahn, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Motion / Motion Response, Plan, Project, Public service, Request For Proposal, Ridesourcing, Shelia Kuehl, Traffic congestion, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative
• Related files: 2019-0109, 2019-0649, 2019-0281

Meeting_Body
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
APRIL 18, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: CONGESTION PRICING FEASIBILITY STUDY UPDATE

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. RECEIVING AND FILING the response to Motion 32.3 (Congestion Pricing) by Directors Garcetti, Kuehl, Butts, Solis, and Hahn; and

B. APPROVING Next Steps for Congestion Pricing Feasibility Study, which includes:

* May 2019: Staff will issue Requests for Proposals for 1) Technical Services (includes Equity Analysis) and 2) Communications Plan and Public Engagement Services;

* Summer 2019: Seek Board authorization to award contract; and

* Ongoing: Staff will conduct ongoing dialogue with the Board at key milestones during the project development process. An overview of the anticipated process is provided in Attachment E Project Milestones.

HAHN AMENDMENT
? Include a lane/different pricing model for the zero emission vehicles; and

? Include Board's ability to appoint the public partnership stakeholder panel
and expand the number of the seats.

Issue
ISSUE

On February 28, 2019, the Board passed Motion 32.3 (Garcetti, Kuehl, Butts, Solis, and Hahn, Attachment A), which instructed staff to return to the Board with updates in their April report. This Motion was provided in response to staff's continuing response to Motion 4.1, directing the CEO to present a comprehensive funding plan for the "28 x 2028" initiative. The receive and file Board Report portion is in response to instructions from the Board on the Transformational Initiatives, which include congestion pricing and New Mobility fees.

Background
BACKGROUND
On February 28, 2019, the Board approved staff's recommendations to pursue the Transformational Initiatives that are central to "The Re-Imagining of LA County," which include congestion pricing and New Mobility fees. See Attachment B. These Transformational Initiatives address the widely shared desire to greatly reduce congestion, ...