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On November 4, 2004, the voters of San Diego County approved the San Diego
Transportation improvement Program Ordinance and Expenditure Plan (04-01)
extension. The TransNet Extension Ordinance provides that SANDAG, acting as
the Regional Transportation Commission, shall approve a mufti -year program of
projects submitted by local jurisdictions identifying those transportation projects
eligible to use transportation sales tax (TransNet) funds.
On July 3, 2012, per Resolution No. 2012-145, City Council adopted the 2012
Regional Transportation Improvement Program (R T IP) for National City projects
for fiscal years 2013 through 2017, consistent with the table below.
Project Name
FY 13
FY 14
FY 15
FY 16
FY 17
Plaza Boulevard Widening
(NC01)
200,000
332,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
Street Resurfacing (NC03)
520,000
450,000
746,000
813,000
850,000
Traffic Signal lnstaii/Upgrades
(NC04)
50,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
50,000
Highland Avenue Community
Corridor (NC13)*
0
0
0
0
0
4th Street Community Corridor
(NC14)*
0
0
0
0
0
Citywide Safe Routes to School
(NC15)*
0
0
0
0
0
* Active project that received fund'ng in FY 12
SANDAG, in cooperation and conjunction with the local agencies deployed the
RAMS project at the end of fiscal year 2012. The project delivered 15 local
agency RAMS servers, and one Regional server with which all local agency
systems communicate. The RAMS system provides the region and the local
agencies the following benefits:
1. The ability to coordinate on signal plan development both actively and
passively. By sharing timing plans across local jurisdictional bounders,
traffic engineers are able to complete proposed plans more quickly and
efficiently, and reach agreement on modification more readily through
access to better information.
2. A common time source across more than 3,000 traffic signals region -wide,
allowing for timing precision necessary to coordinate signals across
jurisdictional boundaries.
3. A common platform from which current and future efforts can build, such
as the Integrated Corridor Management System (ICM) which is currently in
operation in the Interstate 15 corridor.
Prior to the project transitioning from implementation to ongoing operations,
SANDAG staff worked with SANTEC and CTAC on developing the best
approach to support this newly established, and common platform for all the
traffic engineers within San Diego County. The components included ongoing
I iS operations, methods for addressing software and hardware maintenance,
and funding and monitoring of inter -agency system communication.
To that end, SANTEC and CTAC recommended that a Regional Fund Pool be
established to effectively and efficiently address the three operational elements:
1. Software Maintenance
2. Hardware Maintenance
3. Communication Infrastructure
RAMS operations support costs for FY 2014 are $236,000. National City's "fair
share" contribution (which is based on percentage of local traffic signals
compared to the total number of signals in the RAMS regional network), is
$8,000 - National City maintains 73 traffic signals.
Therefore, staff is requesting City Council authorization to amend the 2012 RTIP
for National City to allocate $8,000 of local TransNet (Prop A) funding for the
Traffic Signal Install/Upgrades Project to satisfy National City's "fair share"
contribution towards the annual cost of Regional Arterial Management System
(RAMS) operations support services for FY 2014.
Once approved, staff will forward the resolution to SANDAG and make said
changes via SANDAG's ProjectTrak, a web -based budget tracking systern for the
RTIP, prior to the September 6, 2013 deadline. SANDAG's Transportation
Committee will review the amendment at their regularly scheduled meeting on
October 18, 2013.