188.8
. (a) From the funds programmed pursuant to Section 188 for
regional improvement projects, the commission shall approve programs
and program amendments, so that funding is distributed to each county
of County Group No. 1 and in each county of County Group No. 2
during the county share periods commencing July 1, 1997, and ending
June 30, 2004, and each period of four years thereafter. The amount
shall be computed as follows:
(1) The commission shall compute, for the county share periods all
of the money to be expended for regional improvement projects in
County Groups Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, as provided in Section 188.
(2) From the amount computed for County Group No. 1 in paragraph
(1) for the county share periods the commission shall determine the
amount of programming for each county in the group based on a formula
that is based 75 percent on the population of the county to the
total population of County Group No. 1 and 25 percent on state
highway miles in the county to the total state highway miles in
County Group No. 1.
(3) From the amount computed for County Group No. 2 in paragraph
(1) for the county share periods the commission shall determine the
amount of programming for each county in the group based on a formula
that is based 75 percent on the population of the county to the
total population of County Group No. 2 and 25 percent on state
highway miles in the county to the total state highway miles in
County Group No. 2.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), that portion of the county
population and state highway mileage in El Dorado and Placer Counties
that is included within the jurisdiction of the Tahoe Regional
Planning Agency shall be counted separately toward the area under the
jurisdiction of the Tahoe Regional Transportation Agency and may not
be included in El Dorado and Placer Counties. The commission shall
approve programs, program amendments, and fund reservations for the
area under the jurisdiction of the Tahoe Regional Transportation
Agency that shall be calculated using the formula described in
paragraph (2) of subdivision (a).
(c) A transportation planning agency designated pursuant to
Section 29532 of the Government Code, or a county transportation
commission created by Division 12 (commencing with Section 130000) of
the Public Utilities Code, may adopt a resolution to pool its county
share programming with any county or counties adopting similar
resolutions to consolidate its county shares for two consecutive
county share periods into a single share covering both periods. A
multicounty transportation planning agency with a population of less
than three million may also adopt a resolution to pool the share of
any county or counties within its region. The resolution shall
provide for pooling the county share programming in any of the
pooling counties for the new single share period and shall be
submitted to the commission not later than May 1 immediately
preceding the commencement of the county share period.
(d) For the purposes of this section, funds programmed shall
include the following costs pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
14529 of the Government Code:
(1) The amounts programmed or budgeted for both components of
project development in the original programmed year.
(2) The amount programmed for right-of-way and right-of-way
support costs in the year programmed in the most recent state
transportation improvement program. If the final estimate is greater
than 120 percent or less than 80 percent of the amount originally
programmed, the amount shall be adjusted for final expenditure
estimates at the time of right-of-way certification.
(3) The engineer's final estimate of project costs, including
construction support, presented to the commission for approval
pursuant to Section 14533 of the Government Code in the year
programmed in the most recent state transportation improvement
program. If the construction contract award amount is less than 80
percent of the engineer's final estimate, excluding construction
support, the department shall notify the commission and the
commission may adjust its project allocation accordingly.
(4) Project costs shown in the program, as amended, where project
allocations have not yet been approved by the commission, escalated
to the date of scheduled project delivery.
(e) Project costs shown in the program may not be changed to
reflect any of the following:
(1) Differences that are within 20 percent of the amount
programmed for actual project development cost.
(2) Differences that are within 20 percent of the amount reported
at the time of allocation pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision
(d) for actual right-of-way costs calculated at the time of
acceptance of a project construction contract.
(3) Construction contract award amounts, except when those amounts
are less than 80 percent of the engineer's final estimate, excluding
construction support, and the commission has adjusted the project
construction allocation.
(4) Changes in construction expenditures, except for supplemental
project allocations made by the commission, including supplemental
allocations made pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 188.9.
(f) For the purposes of this section, the population in each
county is that determined by the last preceding federal census, or a
subsequent census validated by the Population Research Unit of the
Department of Finance, at the beginning of each county share period.
(g) For the purposes of this section, "state highway miles" means
the miles of state highways open to vehicular traffic at the
beginning of each county share period.
(h) It is the intent of the Legislature that there is to be
flexibility in programming under this section and Section 188 so
that, while ensuring that each county will receive an equitable share
of state transportation improvement program funding, the types of
projects selected and the programs from which they are funded may
vary from county to county.
(i) Commencing with the four-year period commencing on July 1,
2004, individual county share shortfalls and surpluses at the end of
each four-year period, if any, shall be carried forward and credited
or debited to the following four years.
(j) The commission, with the consent of the department, may
consider programming projects in the state transportation improvement
program in a county with a population of not more than 1,000,000 at
a level higher or lower than the county share, when the regional
agency either asks to reserve part or all of the county's share until
a future programming year, to build up a larger share for a higher
cost project, or asks to advance an amount of the share, in an amount
not to exceed 200 percent of the county's current share, for a
larger project, to be deducted from shares for future programming
years. After consulting with the department, the commission may
adjust the level of programming in the regional program in the
affected region against the level of interregional programming in the
improvement program to accomplish the reservation or advancement,
for the current state transportation improvement program. The
commission shall keep track of any resulting shortfalls or surpluses
in county shares.
(k) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), in a region defined by
Section 66502 of the Government Code, the transportation planning
agency may adopt a resolution to pool the county share of any county
or counties within the region, if each county receives no less than
85 percent and not more than 115 percent of its county share for a
single county share period and 100 percent of its county share over
two consecutive county share periods. The resolution shall be
submitted to the commission not later than May 1, immediately
preceding the commencement of the county share period.
(l) Federal funds used for federal demonstration projects that use
federal obligational authority otherwise available for other
projects shall be subtracted from the county share of the county
where the project is located.