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TVTC Strategic Expenditure Plan 2022 Update │ Chapter 1: Introduction Draft Final Report │ April 29, 2022 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND AND HISTORY In 1991, the seven jurisdictions of Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore, Danville, and San Ramon signed a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) that established the Tri-Valley Transportation Council (TVTC). The purpose of the JPA was for the joint preparation of a Tri-Valley Transportation Plan/Action Plan (TVTP/AP) for Routes of Regional Significance (RRS) and cost sharing of recommended improvements. The TVTP/AP was prepared and presented to all member jurisdictions in April 1995, and updated in 2000. The TVTP/AP created a common understanding and agreement on the Tri-Valley’s transportation concerns regarding prioritizing projects for funding and implementation. In addition to the project priorities, the TVTP/AP also recommended the development of a Tri-Valley Transportation Development Fee (Fee or TVTDF) to allocate a fair share of regional infrastructure cost to go towards new development. The first nexus study for the fee program was completed in 1995 and justified allocating the unfunded cost needed to complete all of the 11 projects identified in the TVTP/AP to new development. The TVTC, however, recommended scaling back by roughly two-thirds the total the maximum fee allowed under the nexus study. The TVTC and its member jurisdictions subsequently created and adopted the TVTDF in 1998 through a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement (JEPA). The original Strategic Expenditure Plan (SEP) was adopted in 1999. The JEPA called for a periodic update of the fee program to reflect any significant changes in population growth, project status, and other conditions that would require revisions to the fee program. The TVTP/AP was again updated in 2000 to reflect projects that were completed, project schedules and/or funding plans shifted, traffic patterns changed; and new regional transportation projects were identified through various traffic studies. The TVTC responded to these changes by directing the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) to conduct a new fee nexus study to update the fee, and potentially the project list. Completed and adopted in early 2008, the next TVTC nexus study, identified 22 new projects that the TVTC elected for eligibility to receive funding from the TVTDF. The first 11 projects were adopted into the original program in 1995. The second set of 11, were new projects that were included in the 2008 Nexus Study. A revised fee structure was released by TVTC for consideration by each member agency in late 2008. While each member agency communicated support for the revised fee structure, it was not approved by all member agencies pending preparation and approval of a corresponding SEP. A TVTC SEP Subcommittee was therefore formed to commence an update to the SEP. To facilitate the progress of existing projects while an update to the SEP was underway, an Interim Funding Plan was approved by TVTC in April 2010. The Interim Funding Plan matched the programmed amounts and priorities established in the 2004 SEP Update. It also included a revised disbursement timeline to reflect the current Joint TVTDF account balance and projected fee collections over the next five years—which reaffirmed TVTC’s commitment to high priority projects. In 2011, an update to the SEP incorporated estimated TVTDF revenues over a 10-year horizon. The SEP 2011 Update recommended allocating funding to all of projects on List A and several projects on List B, at an approximate total of $60 million between FY10/11 and FY 19/20. The TVTC SEP 2011 Update was adopted on February 10, 2011. In October 2013, TVTC signed a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement to establish the TVTC as a separate agency that is responsible for planning, coordinating, and receiving disbursement of traffic