HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 4233 RESOLUTION NO. 4233
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF HUNTINGTON BEACH URGING SUPPORT OF AB 2752
(PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS)
WHEREAS, the California State Legislature and the citizens
of Orange County have given the Orange County Transit District
(OCTD) the responsibility for providing needed public transit
services throughout the County; and
There is ever increasing demand to add new routes and
reduce headways on existing OCTD fixed routes aimed towards
completing the system and providing hiizher levels of service
to the people of Orange County by providing localities through-
out the County with service responsive to specific community
characteristics ; and
The OCTD is greatly limited in instituting these higher
levels of service because of obstacles inherent in its enabling
legislation which are extensive enough to prohibit the OCTD from
expanding into programs that provide higher Levels of service
as the OCTD cannot implement service where it might compete
with an existing system; and
The competition need not be significant and there need be
no finding of actual competition, only that the potential exists;
and OCTD must purchase the system with which it may compete
before service is implemented; and
Because the purchase price requirements for existing systems
are not based on fair market value but are based on gross revenues ,
the purchase formula places an unfair financial burden on the OCTD
and the people of Orange County; and
Recent Dial-A-Ride litigation involving the City of Orange
Dial-A-Ride system illustrates that the impacted taxicab company
projected an annual net profit loss of approximately $200 following
the implementation of Dial-A-Ride; and
The current purchase formula in the OCTD enabling legislation
dictates that before the Transit District can continue to operate
the City of Orange Dial-A-Ride it must acquire the impacted
taxicab company at a cost of $1. 3 million; and
The OCTD must either purchase the existing system for $1. 3
million or cease operation of a Dial-A-Ride service that in its
infant stages has been carrying up to 18, 000 passengers a month; and
The restrictions found in OCTD's enabling act are peculiar
to the Transit District in Orange County and nine other transit
agencies in the State of California have no such restrictions
or costly buy-out procedures; and
All current and proposed community-level systems would be
operated by private enterprise utilizing their own employees and
operating strategies under contract to OCTD; and
The OCTD board policy has been established always to involve
private enterprise whenever possible and it is not the intent of
the OCTD to adversely affect private enterprise; and
Repealing the competition and purchase provisions in the
OCTD enabling act would make the District 's legislation consistent
with existing statutes applicable to municipalities and the
majority of transit districts throughout the State; and
Assembly Bill 2752 has been introduced before the 1975-76
California State Legislature, and if adopted, would delete the
requirement that the District purchase an existing transit service
prior to establishing any transit service or system which may com-
pete with the existing transit service or system; and
The Bill, if adopted, establishes a three step procedure
for determining just compensation for private transportation
systems in the event there is competition from the Orange County
Transit District,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Huntington Beach does support the passage of
Assembly Bill No . 2752 which would devise workable guidelines
for meeting the public transit requirements of the people of
Orange County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this Resolution be
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forwarded to State Senators Dennis Carpenter and James E.
Whetmore, and Alfred E. Alquist, Chairman of the Public Utilities
Transit and Energy Commmittee, Assemblymen Robert E. Badham,
John V. Briggs, Robert H. Burke, Paul B. Carpenter, Bruce Nestande
and Richard Robinson, Walt Ingalls, Chairman Assembly Transporta-
tion Committee, and the Orange County Transit District .
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 3rd
day of May, 1976.
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ATTEST: Mayor
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Administrator City Attorn y
APPROVED BY INITIATING DEPARTMENT:
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NO FISCAL IMPACT
FISCAL IMPACT -- BUDGETED
FISCAL IMPACT -- NOT BUDGETED�____..-
REQUIRES FINANCIAL 'I?.
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Res. No. 4233
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ssc
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of
members of the City. Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative
vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 3rd day
of May 1976 by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen:
Bartlett, Pattinson, Coen, Gibbs, Siebert, Shenkman, Wieder
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
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City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California