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Consent-Community Services # 20.
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| Board of Supervisors |
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| Adopt resolution certifying Yolo County’s Annual Maintained Mileage Report. (No general fund impact) (Echiburu/Kokkas) |
| Recommended Action |
- 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 757.626 miles of roadways.
- Direct staff to forward the resolution to Caltrans.
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| Strategic Plan Goal(s) |
This action supports the strategic plan goal of safe communities, to address service delivery and critical infrastructure needs in unincorporated communities, by providing statistical information that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the State of California use in transportation funding apportionment.
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| 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 FHWA by June 1.
BACKGROUND
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 Community Services, Public Works Division 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, and un-maintained roads within county right of way.
On April 26, 2016, the Board of Supervisors certified the 2015 maintained mileage as 756.197 miles. Due to corrections following field measurements, 757.626 miles of roadways will be reported as the 2016 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 local access roads, to “Arterials” for the highest usage with longer distances of uninterrupted speeds and some degree of access control. Yolo County has only 116.334 miles of paved roads that are classified as Other Principal Arterial, Minor Arterial or Major Collector, and are eligible for federal funds (15% of the total maintained miles).
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) also uses the maintained mileage data, along with traffic volume information supplied in the state’s Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) reports, to determine conformity with air quality regulations. |
| Collaborations (including Board advisory groups and external partner agencies) |
| Caltrans receives and processes the resolution and report. |
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