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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 142-1977 RESOLUTION NO. 142-77 CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH PROCEDU~RE FOR DETERMINING DIS- TRIBUTION OF FEDERAL AID FOR SAFER OFF-SYSTEM (SOS) ROADS City of RESOLVED, by the City Council of the South San Francisco, County of San (City) Mateo, State of California, that, WHEREAS, under the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1976, funds are available to the County and cities for the construction, reconstruction and improvement of any toll-free road not on any federal-aid system and under the jurisdiction of and maintained by a public authority and open to public travel; and WHEREAS, Section 2530(c) of the Streets and Highways Code states that the distribution of funds among the cities within each county and the county shall be determined by agreement between the county and a majority of the cities and that cities shall include a majority of the municipal population within the county; and ~HEREAS, it is in the interest of the County and the cities within the County that these federal funds be made available for use on County roads and city streets to improve safety; and WHEREAS, the City Engineer/Director of Public Works is most competent to recognize safety hazards, high hazard locations and roadside obstacles on or adjacent to the various streets within the city; and WHEREAS, procedures and criteria for determining the distribution of said federal funds must be submitted to the State Department of Transportation prior to any SOS funds being obligated: City of · NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the South San Francisco (City) requests that the following procedure be utilized for the distribution of the Federal Aid For Safer Off-System (SOS) Funds: 1. The City Engineer/Director of Public Works is appointed as the city's representative to the San Mateo County Technical Advisory Con~ittee. 2. The San Mateo County Technical Advisory Committee will determine the Procedures and the criteria for the distribution of said SOS funds between the County and various cities. 3. The San Mateo County Technical Advisory Committee shall determine the fund distribution as stipulated by the aopted procedures and criteria established. 4. It shall be required that the fund distribution be approved by the representatives of a majority of the cities within the County and cities repre- senting the majority of the population in the County. 5. Said procedures and criteria for distribution of SOS funds shall then be transmitted to the Board of Supervisors for approval. 6. Said procedures and criteria for distribution of SOS funds shall be transmitted to the Director of the Department of Transportation for approval. I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly intro- duced and adopted by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at an adjourned reqular meeting held' on the 24th day of Auqust , 1977, by the following vote: AYES, COUNCILMEN Richard A. Battaglia, William A.· Borba, Emanuele N. Damonte, Terry J. Mirri and Leo Padreddii NOES, " None ABSENT, " None APPROVED: Clerk of City of South San Francisco Mayor of City of South San Francisco .