AGENDA
LOS
ANGELES COUNTY
METROPOLITAN
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
REGULAR
BOARD MEETING
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Metro Headquarters
3rd
Floor - Board Room
One
Gateway Plaza, Los
Angeles
Thursday, August 28, 2003 – 9:30 a.m.
Call
to order:
Directors:
Zev
Yaroslavsky, Chair
Frank
Roberts, 1st Vice Chair
James
Hahn, 2nd Vice Chair
Mike
Antonovich
Yvonne
Brathwaite Burke
John
Fasana
Don
Knabe
Tom
LaBonge
Martin
Ludlow
Gloria
Molina
Pam
O’Connor
Beatrice
Proo
Antonio
Villaraigosa
Doug
Failing, Ex Officio
Chief
Executive Officer – Roger Snoble
Board
Secretary - Michele Jackson
Ethics
Officer - Karen Gorman
Inspector
General – William Waters
General
Counsel - County Counsel
1.
APPROVE Consent Calendar Items: 2, 10, 11, 13, 16 & 17
NOTE COMMITTEE AUTHORITY ITEM: 6
CONSENT
CALENDAR
2.
APPROVE Minutes of Regular Board Meeting held July
24, 2003.
10.
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (3-0) approval of a
consolidated and enhanced policy for the naming of all
Metro properties that will supercede several existing policies, and ensure
that Metro properties are named in a timely, cost-effective manner for the maximum
benefit and convenience of our customers.
11.
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (3-0) approval of 7%
as the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
(DBE) annual goal for Federal Fiscal Year 2004
(FFY04).
13.
PLANNING & PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (3-0) AND EXECUTIVE
MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (3-0) adoption of revised
position on SB314 (Murray) – would authorize
the Metro to impose an additional 0.5% transaction and use tax for 6 years or
less. SUPPORT WORK WITH
AUTHOR
16.
FINANCE AND BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (4-0-1) authorizing the Chief
Executive Officer to appoint Bear Stearns & Co. and Lehman Brothers, Inc. as
co-senior managing underwriters and remarketing agents for one or more series of
auction rate securities to be issued to refund portions of the Proposition
C 1993-B and 1995-A bonds in a negotiated sale.
17.
FINANCE AND BUDGET COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (5-0) execution of Amendment No.
4 to Contract No. PS-5110-0970 with Optisource Technologies, to increase the
contract amount by $55,000, for the continued provision
of data imaging and archiving services through December 31, 2003,
increasing the contract amount from $193,185 to $248,185.
APPROVED
UNDER COMMITTEE AUTHORITY
6.
PLANNING & PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE RECEIVED AND FILED report on the
annual New Starts Rating Report to be filed with
the Federal Transit Administration for the Exposition Light Rail Transit (LRT)
Project and two associated studies that have recently been completed for the
project:
·
Peer Review Panel Report, June 2003
·
Value Engineering Study Report, June 2003
NON-CONSENT:
3.
Chief Executive Officer’s Report
4.
Chair’s Report
7.
PLANNING & PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED (3-0) AS AMENDED BY PROO
adoption of the 2003 Short Range Transportation Plan
for Los Angeles County with revisions.
PROO
AMENDMENT:
Revise the fifth bullet for page 23 to read, “Examine in consultation
with freight industry representatives, including shippers, ports, and affected
local jurisdictions, freight movement strategies to reduce congestion on key
freeways, such as the I-710 during peak commute periods.
Develop recommendations which address local, state, or federal regulatory
changes that would be necessary for implementation.”
12.
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT COMMITTEE FORWARDED TO THE FULL BOARD
WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION DUE TO CONFLICTS authorizing the Chief Executive Officer
to renew policies for the Non-Contract and AFSCME
Group Insurance Plans, including medical, dental, life, accidental death and
dismemberment, and long-term disability coverages for a one-year period
beginning January 1, 2004.
21.
RECEIVE oral update on the Universal Fare System implementation.
22.
CONSIDER:
A.
authorizing the Chief Executive Officer to enter into an agreement
between the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (Metro) for the permanent
transfer of 24 strands of excess fiber optic cable assets, for a one
time payment of $1,000,000 within 90 days of commencement of agreement; and
B.
approving a 20-year indefeasible right of use agreement under which Metro
would be granted use of conduit and fiber-optic infrastructure owned by the City
of Los Angeles for the purpose of connecting Metro’s existing fiber optic to the
newly purchased strands for a one-time payment of $250,000 upon commencement of
agreement.
23.
HOLD a public hearing on the resolution of necessity for the acquisition
of project Parcel No. ES-654 for the Eastside Light Rail
Project – West Portal project enhancements, between Gless Street and
U.S. Highway 101 and adopt the Resolution of Necessity authorizing the
commencement of an eminent domain action to acquire the subject parcel.
REQUIRES 4/5 VOTE OF THE BOARD
24.
ADOPT the Metro Administrative Code.
14. CLOSED SESSION:
A.
Conference with Real Property Negotiators concerning Price and/or
Terms of Payment (G.C.54956.8)
Negotiator:
Velma Marshall
Eastside
Light Rail Transit Project
|
Parcel
No. |
Owner |
Property
Interest |
|
ES-598 |
M-C
Investments |
Fee
Simple |
|
|
|
Improvements
pertaining to Realty |
B. Conference
with Legal Counsel-Existing Litigation – G.C. 54956.9 (a):
1. Hernandez v. Metro
SC071505
2. Ryan v. Metro
YC045080
C.
Conference with Legal Counsel-Anticipated Litigation – G.C.
54956.9(c)
(One Case)
D.
Conference with Labor Negotiator – G.C. 54957.6:
Agency
Negotiators:
Roger Snoble and Brenda Diederichs
Employee
Organizations:
Amalgamated Transit Union, Transportation Communications Union, United
Transportation Union, and Engineers and Architects Association
Consideration
of items not on the posted agenda, including: items to be presented and (if
requested) referred to staff; items to be placed on the agenda for action at a
future meeting of the Board; and/or items requiring immediate action because of
an emergency situation or where the need to take immediate action came to the
attention of the Board subsequent to the posting of the agenda.
COMMENTS
FROM THE PUBLIC ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST WITHIN BOARD’S SUBJECT MATTER
JURISDICTION
ADJOURNMENT