Bill Text: CA AB251 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-20 - From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB251 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB251-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 251 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Knight
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
An act to amend Section 130051 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 251, as introduced, Knight. Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority.
Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority with specified powers and duties relative to
transportation planning, programming, and operations in Los Angeles
County. The authority is governed by a 14-member board of directors,
including the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, 2 public members and
one Los Angeles city council member appointed by the mayor, 4 members
appointed from the other cities in the county, the 5 members of the
board of supervisors, and a nonvoting member appointed by the
Governor.
This bill would provide for the appointment of one member by the
city councils of the Cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa
Clarita, as specified, and would delete one of the public members
appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles. The bill would
also exclude the Cities of Palmdale, Lancaster, and Santa Clarita
from the selection of the 4 members appointed from other cities in
the county,
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 130051 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
130051. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority consists of 14 members, as follows:
(a) Five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
If the number of members of the Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors is increased, the authority shall, within 60 days of the
increase, submit a plan to the Legislature for revising the
composition of the authority.
(b) The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles.
(c) Two One public
members member and one member of the
City Council of the City of Los Angeles appointed by the Mayor of the
City of Los Angeles.
(d) One member jointly appointed by the city councils of the
Cities of Lancaster, Palmdale, and Santa Clarita. The member shall be
a mayor or a member of the city council of one of those cities, and
shall serve a one-year term on a three-year rotating cycle. For years
two and three of the cycle, the member shall be jointly appointed in
the same manner from one of the other two cities that has not yet
had an elected representative serve as the member during the same
cycle. Thereafter, the three-year cycle shall be repeated in the same
order. Upon the initial appointment of a member pursuant to this
subdivision, the position of one of the public members appointed
pursuant to subdivision (c), as it read prior to enactment of the act
amending this section the first year of the 2009-10 Regular Session,
as determined by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles by lot, shall
be vacated.
(d)
(e) Four members, each of whom shall be a mayor or a
member of a city council, appointed by the Los Angeles County City
Selection Committee. For purposes of the selection of these four
members, the County of Los Angeles, excluding the City of Los Angeles
and the Cities of Lancaster, Palmdale, and Santa
Clarita , shall be divided into the following four sectors:
(1) The North County/San San
Fernando Valley sector.
(2) The Southwest Corridor sector.
(3) The San Gabriel Valley sector.
(4) The Southeast Long Beach sector.
The League of California Cities, Los Angeles County Division,
shall define the sectors. Every city within a sector shall be
entitled to vote to nominate one or more candidates from that sector
for consideration for appointment by the Los Angeles County City
Selection Committee. A city's vote shall be weighted in the same
proportion that its population bears to the total population of all
cities within the sector.
The members appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall be
appointed by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee upon an
affirmative vote of its members which represent a majority of the
population of all cities within the county, excluding the City of Los
Angeles and the Cities of Lancaster, Palmdale, and Santa
Clarita .
The members selected by the city selection committee shall serve
four-year terms with no limitation on the number of terms that may be
served by any individual. The city selection committee may shorten
the initial four-year term for one or more of the members for the
purpose of ensuring that the members will serve staggered terms.
(e)
(f) If the population of the City of Los Angeles, at
any time, becomes less than 35 percent of the combined population of
all cities in the county, the position of one of the two
public members appointed pursuant to subdivision (c), as
determined by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles by lot, shall be
vacated, and the vacant position shall be filled by appointment by
the city selection committee pursuant to subdivision (d)
(e) from a city not represented by any other
member appointed pursuant to subdivision (d)
(e) .
(f)
(g) One nonvoting member appointed by the Governor.
