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• e ' ,401/4 - ____ _GOVERNtN-G-BOD tAND V ' ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Implementation of this sales tax is authorized under GOVERNING BODY AND the Local Transportation Authority and Improvement ADMINISTRATION Act,California Public Utilities Code Section 180000 et seq. In enacting this ordinance,voters will authorize The Alameda CTC is governed by a Commission the Alameda County Transportation Commission comprised of 22 members,with the following (referred to herein as the Alameda CTC)to have the representation: responsibility to administer the tax proceeds in accordance with all applicable laws and with the • All five Alameda County supervisors Transportation Expenditure Plan(TEP). Funds • Two Oakland representatives collected for this tax may be spent only for the • purposes identified in the TEP,as it may be amended One representative from each of the other 13 as described in the implementation guidelines. Under cities no circumstances may the proceeds of this • AC Transit transportation sales tax be applied to any purpose BART •other than for transportation improvements benefitting Alameda County.Under no circumstances The Commission is assisted by staff dedicated to may these funds be appropriated by the State of implementation and monitoring of sales tax projects California or any other governmental agency. and programs.The total cost assigned for salaries and benefits for administrative employees shall not exceed 1%of the revenues generated by the sales tax. The Alameda County Transportation Commission was created in July 2010 through a merger of two The total cost of administration of this tax,including existing agencies: the Alameda County all rent,supplies,consulting services and other Transportation Improvement Authority,which overhead costs will not exceed 4%of the proceeds of administered the existing Measure B half-cent the tax.In addition,$XXX has been budgeted to transportation sales tax,and the Alameda County repay a loan from the Alameda CTC for the election Congestion Management Agency,which was costs of the Measure. responsible for long-range planning and programming of transportation funds.The merger INDEPENDENT WATCHDOG was designed to save taxpayer money by developing COMMITTEE a single,streamlined organization focused on planning, funding and delivering countywide The Independent Watchdog Committee will have the projects and programs with local,regional,state and responsibility of reviewing and overseeing all federal funds in the most efficient and effective expenditures of sales tax funds by the Alameda CTC. manner to serve the county's transportation needs. The Independent Watchdog Committee(IWC) The merger has resulted in millions of dollars of reports directly to the public. savings to taxpayer's on an annual basis.