Agmt07 City of South San Francisco Transportation Authority Measure A Funds

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Mayor Rosanne Foust I0101e 11"11®89 Vim Mayor Diane Howard nalilurnin Council Members AliciaC. Aguirre 1`til'1 IOUnUUU IBU/ Ull�� Bain Jim Hartnc(t Jeff Ira Barbam Pierce o I v tuber "ED), � e Dear Mayor Garbarino, 1017 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD P.O. BOX39I Redwood City, California 94064.0391 Telephone (650) 790-7220 FAX (650) 261-9102 www.redwoodeity.org Last night the City Council of Redwood City accepted the recommendation from Council Member Howard and myself to accept a 50150 split of the Measure A funds designated for ferry services. I'm writing to share this update with you, and to encourage your Council to approve a similar recommendation so that we can jointly present this recommended allocation in a letter to the Transportation Authority (TA). I've attached a copy of our committee report to Council for your information. Upon completion of this initial step, Redwood City and South San Francisco can then take on the critical work with the Water Transit Authority (WTA) to secure the additional funds that will be needed to make ferry service viable for both our communities. I'd like to thank South San Francisco Vice Mayor Gonzalez, Council Member Addiego, and City Manager Nagel for their frank and open comments during our discussions regarding allocation of the Measure A funds. Certainly we all came away from those meetings with a much better understanding of the issues faced by each of our jurisdictions, a more unified grasp of the intent of Measure A, and the necessity of arriving at an agreement to present to the TA. It was clear that the Measure A funds are insufficient for the funding needs of both cities' ferry services, and that additional funds would be needed. Our Council believes that a split of 50150 is most equitable to all the voters of the County who approved the Measure, but understands that this requires additional immediate efforts to secure the funding for your initial work on the ferry service. Because of our long positive history of collaboration in the water transit effort, Redwood City stands ready to begin work immediately with South San Francisco and the WTA to seek that additional funding. A successful regional fent' system requires funding for multiple sites and will benefit from building on our strong partnership experience. As part of our action last night, the Council authorized the Mayor to send a letter to the Transportation Agency indicating our support for this split at such time as your Council makes its decision. Additionally we approved the continuation of our working in partnership to implement the system.