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AGENDA REPORT
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Item to be presented by:
Caravalho
SUBSEQUENT NEED ITEM
DATE: May 14, 1996
SUBJECT: AB 2495 - MTA REORGANIZATION PLAN
DEPARTMENT: City Manager
BACKGROUND
The need to take action on this item is immediate and came to the attention of the City
Manager, by fax, on Monday, May 13, 1996. This is a subsequent need item which arose after
the posting of the agenda.
A letter was received from the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors to notify the City
Council that the State Assembly will take action on the MTA Reorganization Plan Thursday,
May 16, 1996. The Margett Legislation, AB 2495, is vital to ensuring a representative to the
MTA Board which meets all the needs of the County's 88 cities.
RECOMMENDATION
Council to entertain a motion to take action on this immediate subsequent need item which
arose after the posting of the agenda.
Council to support the proposal and contact the State Assembly representative to vote in favor
of AB 2495 (Margett).
ATTACHMENT
Letter from Board of Supervisors
agnrpt.ab2495.dmg
URGENT MEMO
May 10, 1996
To:
From:
Re:
CITY MANAGERS
MICHAEL D. ANTONOVICH
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
SUPERVISOR FIFTH DISTRICT
URGENT MEMO
MICHAEL D. ANTONOV
Chairman, Board of
Member, Metropolit
URGENT MEMO URGENT MEMO
tion Authority
NOTIFICATION TO CITY gOUNCIL
ASSEMBLY TO TAKE ACTION ON MTA REORGANIZATION PLAN
THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1996
The State Assembly is scheduled to take action on the Margett
Legislation (AB 2495) on Thursday, May 16.
The Margett Legislation (AB 2495) is vital to ensuring a
representative MTA board which meets all the needs of the
county's 88 cities and its dispersed population and employment
centers.
Margett (AB 2495) will make the following changes:
• increase the current four seats for the California League of
Cities Council members to eight
• maintain the Los Angeles' representation to its Mayor, one city
council member and two citizen appointees
• maintain Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor representation
by all five supervisors
• eliminate alternates
I urge your city council to take immediate action in support of
this proposal and contact your assembly representative and ask
them to vote in favor of the Margett Legislation (AB 2495).
If you have any questions regarding the legislation, please
contact me or Habib Balian of my staff for additional assistance.
ROOM 869,. KENNETH HAHN HALL OF ADMINISTRATION, 500 WEST TEMPLE STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012
TELEPHONE (213) 974-5555 • FAX(213)974-1010
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STATEMENT OF SUPERVISOR MIRE ANTONOVICH TO THE ASSEMBLY
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, MAY 10j, 1996
Thank you Chairman Bowler and members of the Assembly
Transportation Committee for holding this hearing.
Transportation is one of the most critical issues facing the
10 million residents of the 88 cities and vast unincorporated
areas of Los Angeles County.
Traditionally, Los Angeles County's 87 cities and
unincorporated communities have been shortchanged in the
allocation of transit resources. The $300 million dollar a mile
downtown oriented subway under construction continues to rob the
other 87 cities of much needed transit improvements by funding
hundreds of millions of dollars in cost -overruns -- all at the
expense of the 87 cities and unincorporated areas.
The key challenge is to create a comprehensive
transportation system that serves all of our communities and
economic centers.
In my years on the Los Angeles County Transportation
commission, I discovered that large portions of the North County,
including 1,700 square miles of the Antelope Valley, literally
were not even included on the LACTC maps. In fact, for many
years, 86 of the county's cities had only 2 representatives on
the LACTC Board.
We started moving toward an efficient, representative board
with the passage of AB 152, which merged the RTD and LACTC, and
added representatives from two independent cities. However, the
current configuration still gives power to Los Angeles City out
of proportion to its population.
Even though it has only one third the population of the
other 87 cities and unincorporated areas, it has almost half the
seats on the board. Its dominance on the board has resulted in a
Los Angeles City -based system, which has left the other 87 cities
out in the cold, underserved, as billions of taxpayers' dollars
have been poured down a sinkhole. With its 467 square miles, Los
Angeles City is only one tenth of the area of the county - and
MORE
ROOM 869, KENNETH HAHN HALL OF ADMINISTRATION, 500 WEST TEMPLE STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012.
TELEPHONE (213) 974-5555 • FAX(213)974-1010
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could fit in a small corner of the Antelope Valley where over
55,000 workers commute into the Los Angeles Basin.
However, the cities political dominance has shortchanged the
Antelope, Santa Clarita, San Gabriel, Pomona and San Fernando
Valleys along with the South Bay communities comprising 3,600
square miles and 6 1/2 million people.
A recent Arthur Anderson audit shows that the subway is one
of the costliest public works projects in the nation, and that
construction is plagued with design and safety problems. Current
figures show that the cost per mile is over $300 million - that's
more than six times the estimated cost per mile for light rail.
The Margett Legislation corrects this inequity and achieves
a truly regional system - a representative MTA Board which will
serve the county's dispersed population and employment centers
with appropriate technology for the area.
Under Margett's legislation, the City of Los Angeles would
retain its current number of votes but the independent cities
would be given four additional votes. The alternates would be
eliminated and the Board of Supervisors would remain the same.
By comparison, the Kuykendall Legislation is no improvement
and perpetuates the unfairness by reducing the representation for
the 87 cities and unincorporated communities.
Again, Margett's reform legislation will achieve a
comprehensive transportation system for the county' ten million
people, 88 cities and vast unincorporated areas.
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