City Council
MEETING DATE: 2/25/2015
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Third Amendment to SunLine Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement
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FROM:
Tracey Martinez, Deputy City Clerk
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council approve the Third Amendment to the SunLine Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement.
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BACKGROUND:
Cathedral City entered into a Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement in 1983. The purpose of this agreement was to provide Public Transit to the Coachella Valley. The First Amendment to the Agreement was made and entered into in June of 1991 to regulate, license and franchise taxicabs and alternative transportation doing business in the Coachella Valley. The Second Amendment to the Agreement was made and entered into in October of 1991 for the purpose of authorizing SunLine to levy and collect a business license tax on the business providing taxicab services in the Coachella Valley.
DISCUSSION:
In February of 2013, the City received a letter indicating that on January 23, 2013, the SunLine Transit Agency Board of Directors recommended that its member agencies approve the Third Amendment to the SunLine Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement. The purpose of this amendment is to delete "weighted voting" from Sections 3(G) and 3(H) of the Agreement. This deletion is recommended because it is no longer possible to calculate each member agency's weighted vote.
Weighted voting, as contained in the Agreement, allocates votes to each of SunLine's member agencies based upon each agency's "number of annual transit service hours requested by that respective party as reflected by the SunLine budget for the then current fiscal year." Weighted voting entitles each Board Member to vote one vote for each annual transit service hour budgeted for the party which the member represents." Transit service, however, is not provided based upon requests for service hours by member agencies. Moreover, transit service in the Valley is neither allocated nor accounted for based upon service hours in any particular jurisdiction. It is consequently impossible to calculate any member's "weighted vote" as provided in the Agreement. The Board of Directors therefore has recommended that the Agreement be amended to eliminate the anachronism of "weighted voting."
As a follow-up, SunLine staff contacted the City Clerk's Department to verify the approval of the Third Amendment to the JPA with SunLine. After researching the legislative history it is apparent that this item was never taken to Council for approval and therefore that needs to be done at this time. Staff recommends that the City Council review the attached "Third Amendment" to the Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement and approve as recommended by the SunLine Transit Agency Board of Directors.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact with this action.
ATTACHMENTS:
- Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement including the First Amendment and Second Amendment
- Third Amendment to the Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement