HomeMy Public PortalAbout02 February 8, 2010 Technical Advisory CommitteeDave Barakix
Bill Bayne, City
Tom Boyd, City-
Duane Burk, City
Greg Butler,
Bo Chen, City
Kip Field, City of
Mike Gow, City c
Bruce Harry,
Jonathan Hay,
Tim Jonasson, t
Michael Kashiwagi,
Brad Kutzner, City
Eunice Lovi, Sun
Habib Motlagh
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION
COMMISSION
TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA*
*Actions may be taken on any item listed on the agenda.
TIME: 10:00 A.M.
DATE: February 8, 2010
LOCATION: Beaumont City Hall
Conference Room #2
550 East Sixth Street
Beaumont, CA 92223
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1. CALL TO ORDER
2. SELF -INTRODUCTIONS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS (This is for comments on items not listed on agenda.
Comments relating to an item on the agenda will be taken when the item is
before the Committee.)
5. CMP CHAPTER 7 (Attachment)
6. STIP UPDATE (Attachment)
7. FfIP/RTP UPDATE (Verbal Presentation)
8. MEASURE A MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT BASE YEAR DEVELOPMENT
(Verbal Presentation)
9. ARRA PROJECT STATUS AND POTENTIAL NEXT STIMULUS (ARRA II)
(Verbal Presentation)
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10. LOCAL ASSISTANCE UPDATE (Verbal Presentation)
11. COMMISSION MEETING HIGHLIGHTS (Verbal Presentation)
12. OTHER BUSINESS
13. ADJOURNMENT (The next meeting will be March 15, 10:00 A.M., in
Riverside.)
TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
MINUTES
Monday, November 161 2009
1. Call to Order
The meeting of the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) Technical
Advisory Committee (TAC) was called to order at 10:02 A.M., at Riverside County
Transportation Commission, 4080 Lemon Street, Riverside, CA 92501.
2. Self -Introductions
Members Present:
Others Present:
Dave Barakian, City of Palm Springs
Bill Bayne, City of Cathedral City
Tom Boyd, City of Riverside
Greg Butler, City of Temecula .
Bo Chen, City of Palm Desert
Bruce Harry, City of Rancho Mirage
Tim Jonasson, City of La Quinta
Prem Kumar, City of Moreno Valley
Amir Modarressi, City of Desert Hot Springs
Victor Monz, City of Hemet
Kahono Oei, City of Banning
Juan Perez, County of Riverside
Scott Richardson, RTA
Jim Rodkey, City of Blythe
Patrick Thomas, City of Murrieta
Paul Toor, City of Coachella
Sean Yeung, Caltrans District 8
Matt Adolph, VRPA Technologies, Inc.
Grace Alvarez, RCTC
Khalid Bazmi, RCTC
Cathy Bechtel, RCTC
Patti Castillo, RCTC
Marlin Freenstra, RCTC
Shirley Gooding, RCTC
Abunnasr Husain, RCTC
Shirley Medina, RCTC
Jim Mitsch, Willdan
Basem Muallem, Caltrans
Alex Serena, WRCOG
John Standiford, RCTC
Chris Sunde, Cities of Canyon Lake, Perris, San Jacinto
Georgiena Vivian, VRPA Technologies, Inc.
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3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
M/S/C (Barakian/]onasson) to approve the minutes of
October 19, 2009.
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS
There were no public comments.
5. CMP PRESENTATION
Shirley Medina, RCTC, reminded the TAC that the Congestion Management Program is
updated every two years and it is in line with the federal congestion management
system requirements. Ms. Medina also announced that the CMP Chapter 7,
Transportation Demand Management/Air Quality, is being revised and will be provided
to the TAC next month.
She introduced Georgiena Vivian, VRPA Technologies, Inc., who presented the 2009
level of service analysis on the CMP system.
6. ARRA SAVINGS PLAN
Ms. Medina stated that ARRA funds resulting from low bids need to be reprogrammed as
quickly and as easily as possible. The projects that have not yet been obligated and
have been approved for ARRA funding are the I-10/Indian Interchange and the
SR-74/I-215 Interchange. Staff is working with Caltrans Headquarters and Federal
Highways for the timing of when and how to put the savings on another project.
After ARRA funds have been obligated, there may be redistribution funds available.
7. RIVERSIDE COUNTY CMAQ REPROGRAMMING
Shirley Medina indicated that the County of Riverside had savings from their
SR-60/Valley Way interchange project. The county and RCTC agreed to keep as much
ARRA funding as possible on the project, therefore freeing up CMAQ funds as well as old
Measure A dollars. The county is requesting reprogramming over $1 million in CMAQ
funds savings to a grade separation project on Magnolia.
M/S/C (Boyd/Toor) to recommend Riverside County's request to
reprogram Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) funds from
the SR 60/Valley Way interchange project to the Magnolia Grade
Separation project
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8. RTP/FTIP UPDATE
Grace Alvarez, RCTC, stated that Amendments No. 24 and 26 are expected to be
approved in 2010 and Administrative Modification No. 27 about mid -December 2009.
She also stated that regarding RTP Amendment No. 3, staff is working on including all
the new projects going into the 2011 FTIP into the 2008 RTP Amendment No. 3. About
20 projects will be submitted to SCAG by the deadline of November 23, 2009.
9. PROPOSITION 1B LONP GUIDELINES
Ms. Medina stated that the comments for the Proposition 1B LONP Guidelines were due
Friday, November 13. She said that if there are any changes or comments within the
next day or so to let her know and she will forward them to the California Transportation
Commission (CTC).
The guidelines were prepared as a result of AB 672, which allows agencies to move
forward with their projects if there are no Proposition 1B funds available for allocation.
When funds are available, the CTC can repay.
10. STIP FY 2009/10 ALLOCATION PLAN AND 2010 STIP FUND ESTIMATE
Shirley Medina reported that the CTC approved the FY 2009/10 Allocation Plan and 2010
State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) fund estimate report.
The I-215, Scott Road to Nuevo Road design phase did not make the allocation list. The
2010 STIP will be prepared and will be taken to the RCTC board in January 2010.
11. LOCAL ASSISTANCE UPDATE
Sean Yeung, Caltrans Local Assistance, _stated that notices were sent to agencies
regarding upcoming due dates. November 25 is the due date for inactive projects and
extension requests. If an agency has a project on the inactive list, it should send an
invoice to Caltrans or send a justification form. Local Assistance prefers an invoice but
in any case, it should be done just as soon as possible so that Local Assistance will have
time to review the form before being sent to FHWA for their concurrence. For your
information, the more often an invoice is sent, the less likely a project will be on an
inactive list.
The Cooperative Work Agreement (CWA) status report is also coming on the 25th of this
month and one of the actions Local Assistance is requesting is if your project is on the
CWA list and the project is already done, notify Local Assistance and it can be closed out
by April 1, 2010. If it is not done or close to completion, notify Caltrans that all
invoicing can be completed by May 3, 2010. If that is not possible, Caltrans encourages
you to submit a CWA extension request. At the discretion of the department of finance,
they can give up to a three year extension based on the facts and circumstances of the
project.
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Mr. Yeung stated that from time to time Local Assistance would send notices to the
agencies and recently they began sending a Construction Oversight Information Notice
(COIN) as a reminder that if you are working on a project needing any type of federal
money, do not use the local hiring preference but use the hiring standards established
by FHWA. For simplicity, there is a summary of it in the Local Assistance Manual.
12. COMMISSION MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
John Standiford, RCTC, reported that the last Commission meeting was in Palm Springs.
A construction management contract on the SR 74/I-215 interchange in Perris was
approved. Another item that was in the agenda packet that was not a presentation item
was the High Speed Rail. RCTC is a participating agency in the environmental process.
There will be an Ad Hoc committee to look at the issue but RCTC is not taking a position
at this time regarding a particular alignment within Riverside County. There is an
environmental process that will be held and RCTC will act as a facilitator and will host
stakeholder meetings and be part of the process but will not influence it.
There was also a presentation to the Commission on rail in the Coachella Valley. CVAG
is the lead agency on updating the feasibility item on whether or not Amtrak and the
role of the state in financing intercity rail service is essential to the Coachella Valley.
The study will update some of the population's demographic numbers.
In yesterday's three newspapers (Californian, Desert Sun and Press Enterprise) in
Riverside County, RCTC published its annual report.
13. OTHER BUSINESS
In response to a question regarding Maintenance of Effort, Ms. Medina stated that there
is no resolution at this point but further meetings will be held. The categories of the
projects that should be included in the Maintenance of Effort is an issue and there were
some errors pointed out that were occurring at the state level when using the state
controller streets report. The next meeting will be in January of February.
14. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business for consideration by the Technical Advisory Committee,
the meeting adjourned at approximately 10:55 A.M.
Respectfully sub Iced,
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Shirley Medina
Programming and Planning Manager
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