City Council
MEETING DATE: 1/11/2017
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Fourth Amendment to SunLine Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement
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FROM:
Charles McClendon, City Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council approve the Fourth Amendment to the SunLine Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement
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BACKGROUND:
In May 1977, the County of Riverside and the incorporated cities in the Coachella Valley entered into the SunLine Joint Powers Transportation Agency Agreement in order to collectively provide a public transportation system in the Coachella Valley. Since that time, the agreement was amended twice in the early 1990s related to taxicab regulation, and a third amendment was promulgated in 2013 that eliminated weighted voting.
On May 25, 2016, the SunLine Transit Agency Board of Directors directed its staff to prepare a proposed fourth amendment to the agreement to specify that the Board of Directors may receive compensation for their attendance at Board meetings and Board subcommittee meetings. As a joint powers agencies that includes the County, charter cities and general law cities, SunLine may pay compensation to its Board members consistent with the law applicable to its member agencies. The law places no limits on the compensation to members of the Board of Supervisors and City Council members in charter cities, but general law cities are subject to the limitations in Government Code section 36516. A Fourth Amendment was prepared and circulated to the member agencies, which was adopted by our City Council on August 24, 2016, but some concerns with the language caused one member city to reject the amendment.
DISCUSSION:
The Board has reconsidered the issue and directed staff to prepare a revised version of the Fourth Amendment for consideration by the member agencies. This revised fourth amendment is similar to the previous version in that it specifically authorizes the Board members to receive stipend...
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