Minutes | Regular Meeting
TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES
October 26, 2017
Present:
Lily Falomir City of Calexico
David Dale City of Calexico
Terry Hagen City of El Centro
Abraham Campos City of El Centro
Isabel Alvarez City of Imperial
Joel Hamby City of Westmorland
Ed Delgado County of Imperial
Veronica Atondo County of Imperial
Others:
Virginia Mendoza ICTC
David Salgado SCAG
Erika Garcia The Holt Group
Kevin Hovey Caltrans
Anh-Vu Pham Caltrans
Debora Ledesma-Ribera Caltrans
Melissa Hewitt Kimley-Horn
Matt Gleason SCAG
Deborah Mcgarreg So Cal Gas
1. The meeting was called to order at 10:05 a.m. A quorum was present and introductions were made. There were no public comments made.
2. A motion was made to adopt the minutes for September 28, 2017. (Falomir/Campos) Motion Carried.
3. SCAG ITS Regional Architecture
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) has developed the Regional ITS Architecture to address ITS project and deployments that require connectivity and information exchange across the six-county region. SCAG is commencing an update to the Regional ITS Architecture to include topics such as congestion value pricing, connected and autonomous vehicles, and updates in goods movement, non-motorized transportation, regional traveler information, big data, and more. Ms. Hewitt presented the topic and answered questions.
4. ICTC Updates / Announcements
Ø Transit Planning Updates (By Virgnia Mendoza):
- ICTC staff developed an RFP and released it on September 1, 2017 to complete an update to the 2011 Short Range Transit Plan (SRTP). A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting was held on September 22, 2017 at the ICTC offices. Bids were due on October 6, 2017.
- The TDA Triennial Review performance audit was presented to the Commission for approval at their last meeting.The Commission approved the audit and is posted on the ICTC website. The audit evaluates performance measures for transit operations.
Ø Transportation Planning Updates (By Virginia Mendoza):
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- ICTC staff is requesting that agency staff provide project updates on all programmed 2019 FTIP projects by October. ICTC staff will work with cities and county staff to meet the 2019 FTIP submittal to SCAG.
stated that the SB 1 workshop schedules have been distributed. The SLPP Program is under Prop B, 50% match road maintenance project, match with LTA money.SB 1 proposing 50% formula 50% competitive 100 million. SB 1 as long as the bill is in affect revenues will be there. Be prepared to use first year allocations. Best number we have available based on the state. Mr. Baza stated we are still working with Caltrans on border inspection on expansion. Coming up with a solution to come up with a proposal.(canopy in both areas). City of Calexico spread ½ million on traffic opening with Phase 1.
The CTC has indicated that it will not have estimates available for this program until the end of July/early August timeframe, agencies are recommended use the League of Cities estimate as a placeholder. The CTC has indicated that following the submittal of the budgeted list of projects, the local agency would have flexibility to administratively update or change the project list, but must report on SB1 expenditures on projects.
Brawley $608,000 Holtville $139,000
Calexico $920,000 Imperial $416,000
Calipatria $176,000 Westmorland $52,000
El Centro $1,034,000 County of Imperial $10,600,000
Source: cacities.org TOTAL $13,945,000
Ø LTA Updates (By Virginia Mendoza):
- Ms. Mendoza stated that the City of Brawley and the City of Calexico are the two agencies pending to expend all their LTA Bond monies. Both agencies have provided staff with information on the projects and an expected date of completion. Both projects should be wrapped up by mid-2018.
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- Ms. Mendoza the LTA Bond for City of Brawley and City of Imperial. Calexico has a 6 million balance on bond. City of Calexico rolled a road maintenance project.
Mr. Baza stated that these are bond money. The money was used for new project maintenance we can help with on the bond project or whatever list is available.
1. SB 1 Update
Ms. Mendoza stated that the SB 1 workshop schedules have been distributed. The SLPP Program is under Prop B, 50% match road maintenance project, match with LTA money.SB 1 proposing 50% formula 50% competitive 100 million. SB 1 as long as the bill is in affect revenues will be there. Be prepared to use first year allocations. Best number we have available based on the state. Mr. Baza stated we are still working with Caltrans on border inspection on expansion. Coming up with a solution to come up with a proposal.(canopy in both areas). City of Calexico spread ½ million on traffic opening with Phase 1.
The CTC has indicated that it will not have estimates available for this program until the end of July/early August timeframe, agencies are recommended use the League of Cities estimate as a placeholder. The CTC has indicated that following the submittal of the budgeted list of projects, the local agency would have flexibility to administratively update or change the project list, but must report on SB1 expenditures on projects.
Brawley $608,000 Holtville $139,000
Calexico $920,000 Imperial $416,000
Calipatria $176,000 Westmorland $52,000
El Centro $1,034,000 County of Imperial $10,600,000
Source: cacities.org TOTAL $13,945,000
5. SCAG Updates / Announcements: (By Mr. Salgado)
- SCAG has set the date of November 9th for a joint Economic and Housing Summit. The event will be held in downtown Los Angeles at the L.A. Hotel.
- There will be a Tool box Tuesday on October 31, 2017 regarding the 2020 RTP/SCS: Local Input & Envisioning Process from 10:00am to 12:00pm.
- SCAG will be dark in the month of January.
6. Cities and County Planning / Public Works Updates:
- There were various local agencies that gave an update n their local projects in process.
7. Caltrans Updates / Announcements
- Ms. Blake has a Power Point Presentation on Local Assistance Environmental, Training for Imperial County Agencies. .
- There will be scheduled closures for projects on SR 98 and SR78. Staff is working with the Public Information Office to get reasonable advanced notice.
- Ann Fox is the new Deputy District Director.
- The scheduled June TAC meeting will be replaced with the Caltrans – Imperial External Teambuilding Meeting.
Mr. Pham Ms. Ribera had the following updates and announcements:a flyer of the deadlines for the projects from the engineer update.
- A handout was provided to the committee.
- Please transmit invoices by November 10, 2017 to avoid being flagged for inactivity. A complete list of inactive projects can be found at the link provided below.
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/LocalPrograms/lnactiveprojects.htm
8. General Discussion / New Business
- There were none.
Meeting adjourned at 11:26 a.m.