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DATE: June 17, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Paul Cranmer, Public Works Services Director
By: Tiffany Lee, P.E., Interim Principal Civil Engineer
SUBJECT: RESOLUTION NO. 7642 ADOPTING A LIST OF PROJECTS FOR FISCAL
YEAR 2025-26 FUNDED BY SB 1: THE ROAD REPAIR AND
ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2017
CEQA: Not a Project
Recommendation: Adopt
SUMMARY
On April 28, 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill 1 (“SB 1”), which is known as the
Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. SB 1 was enacted to address funding
deficiencies for municipalities to perform routine maintenance and rehabilitation, and to
address safety concerns on local streets and roads. In November 2017, the City started
receiving Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (“RMRA”) funding. For the City
to continue to receive this funding, Arcadia must identify specific projects and show proof
that the funds are budgeted in the City’s Fiscal Year 2025-26 Capital Improvement
Program (“CIP”).
It is recommended that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 7642, adopting a list of
projects for Fiscal Year 2025-26 funded by SB 1: The Road Repair and Accountability Act
of 2017. The total budgeted amount of RMRA funding included in the Fiscal Year 2025-
26 CIP for street and road repairs is $1,500,000.
BACKGROUND
On April 28, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1 into law to address road
maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety projects on local streets and roads. SB 1
is funded through an increase in gasoline fuel excise taxes, diesel fuel sales taxes, and
vehicle registration fees. A percentage of the new RMRA funding has been apportioned
by formula to eligible cities and counties to enhance existing street Maintenance of Effort
(“MOE”) levels. The MOE for each City was established by the State Controller’s Office
and is based on the average amount of monies spent on local-street and road projects,
during Fiscal Years 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20.
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To receive RMRA funding, the City must continue to budget and spend that three-year
average of discretionary funds on street improvement projects. The idea behind this
approach is for cities to continue current funding levels to improve streets and roads,
enhancing this effort with the additional RMRA funding.
The City of Arcadia’s three-year average MOE is $2,015,411. A total of $2,030,758 in
street related General Fund expenditures were recorded during the previous reporting
period, exceeding the MOE average and making the City eligible to receive RMRA
funding this year. It is estimated that the City of Arcadia will receive approximately
$1,492,270 in RMRA funding in Fiscal Year 2025-26. It is important to note that while
other transportation funds, including Measure R, Measure M, and Highway Users Tax Act
(“HUTA”), may be used for street maintenance and rehabilitation, such funds may not be
used to meet the MOE three-year average requirement.
RMRA funds can only be used for projects that include road maintenance and
rehabilitation, road safety projects, railroad grade separations, traffic control devices, and
complete street components, including active transportation purposes, pedestrian and
bicycle safety projects, transit facilities, and drainage and storm water capture projects.
DISCUSSION
Prior to receiving an apportionment of RMRA funds, the City must annually submit a list
of proposed projects that will utilize RMRA funds in the upcoming Fiscal Year to the
California Transportation Commission (“CTC”). Subsequently, the proposed projects
must be approved and adopted as part of the City’s Operating or CIP budgets, or later
amended into the budget. The following project is proposed for submission to the CTC to
receive RMRA funding, and is included in the City’s Fiscal Year 2025-26 Capital
Improvement Program:
Fiscal Year 2025-26 Pavement Rehabilitation Program – The project will
resurface approximately 1.1 miles of City roadways with rubberized asphalt.
Roadway segments include Altura Road (from Monte Verde Drive to Encanto
Drive), Campesina Road (from Catalpa Road to Volante Drive), Don Pablo Drive
(from Foothill Boulevard to Cul de Sac end), Oakwood Drive (from Virginia Drive
to Grand View Avenue), and White Oak Drive (from Elkins Avenue to Highland
Oaks Drive). Other repair items to be included in the proposed project schedule
are localized asphalt concrete dig-out repairs and minor repairs to concrete curb
and gutters, sidewalks, and cross gutters.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
This action of adopting a list of proposed funding allocations does not constitute a project
under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”), as it can be seen with certainty
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that it will have no impact on the environment. CEQA will be reviewed, as appropriate, for
each project listed in the proposed resolution, when those plans are effectuated.
FISCAL IMPACT
The total amount of RMRA funding that will be included in the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Capital
Improvement Program for street and road repairs is $1,500,000. This amount includes all
balances that were remaining from previous RMRA funding. It has been estimated that
the City of Arcadia will receive approximately $1,492,270 in funds from RMRA. Any
unused funds from the upcoming Fiscal Year can be carried over and used in the following
years.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the City Council determine that this action does not constitute a
project under the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”); and adopt Resolution
No. 7642 adopting a list of projects for Fiscal Year 2025-26 funded by SB 1: The Road
Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.
Attachment: Resolution No. 7642