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Consent-Community Services # 19.
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| Board of Supervisors Meeting |
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| Adopt a resolution certifying Yolo County’s Annual Maintained Mileage Report. (No general fund impact) (Echiburu/Kokkas) |
| Recommended Action |
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Adopt and authorize the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to sign a resolution certifying Yolo County’s Annual Maintained Mileage Report showing that the county maintains 757.542 miles of roadways.
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Direct staff to forward the resolution to Caltrans.
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| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
Champion job creation and economic opportunities
Enhance and sustain the safety net
Preserve and support agriculture
Provide fiscally sound, dynamic and responsive services
This action supports the strategic plan goal of a financially sustainable county government, by providing statistical information that the FHWA and the state use in transportation funding apportionment. |
| Reason for Recommended Action/Background |
Under Section 2121 of the California Streets and Highways Code, every county is required to certify their maintained mileage to the state annually in May. In turn, the state is required to certify public maintained road mileage to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) by June 1.
Due to the construction of new county streets in subdivisions, the installation of authorized gates, road abandonments, and the use of more accurate measuring devices, the number of road miles maintained by the Yolo County Department of Planning, Public Works and Environmental Services has historically fluctuated over time. Public Works staff periodically updates the county’s maintained mileage database to account for these changes. Not included in the total maintained road mileage are state highways, roads within the county’s right of way that are not maintained by the county, and those maintained by a city under a maintenance agreement.
On April 29, 2014, the Board of Supervisors certified the 2013 maintained mileage as 756.946 miles. Due to corrections following field measurements, 757.542 miles of roadways will be reported as the 2014 certified maintained mileage for Yolo County.
Maintained mileage is a factor in a variety of apportionment formulas used to distribute federal and state funds. At the federal level, federal-aid lane miles are used to apportion state shares of the National Highway System Program, the Surface Transportation Program, and the Highway Safety Improvement Program. In turn, the state makes portions of these program funds available to the county, via either formula, or competitive grant processes.
The federal government uses a classification system for all roads based on traffic volumes, degree of access and uninterrupted speed over certain distances. Classifications range from “Local” for low usage and easy access roads, to “Arterials” for the highest usage with longer distances with uninterrupted speeds and some degree of access control. Yolo County has 116.411 miles of the paved roads (15% of the total maintained miles) that are classified as Other Principal Arterial, Minor Arterial or Major Collector, which makes them eligible for federal funds, as described above.
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) also uses the maintained mileage data, along with traffic volume information supplied in the county’s Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) reports, to determine air quality requirements and regulations for this region. |
| Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
| County Counsel has approved the resolution as to form. |
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