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Supervisor Briggs recommending the Board consider directing staff to take necessary actions to initiate the County of El Dorado's withdrawal as a Member Agency of the Sacramento Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority. (Est. Time: 30 Min.)
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The Sacramento Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers Authority (SPTC-JPA) is a public entity formed in 1991 for the purpose of purchasing 53 miles of the Placerville Branch right-of-way from Southern Pacific. The purchase was completed in September 1996. There are four member agencies of the SPTC-JPA: the County of El Dorado, the City of Folsom, the County of Sacramento, and the Sacramento Regional Transit District. The SPTC-JPA is funded by each member agency contributing a share towards an annual Operating Budget approved by the SPTC-JPA Board. The SPTC-JPA Board ususally meets four (4) times per year and consists of five (5) directors, four (4) of whom are current members of the Sacramento Regional Transit District Board of Directors, the County of El Dorado and the County of Sacramento Boards of Supervisors, and the City of Folsom City Council. A fifth, at-large, director is selected by the four (4) regular directors. The current director at-large is City of Rancho Cordova Councilmember Linda Budge. Although the SPTC-JPA purchased the right-of-way from Southern Pacific in September 1996, the SPTC-JPA is an ongoing agency with the purpose of preserving the corridor for transportation uses and overseeing property management.
The purpose of the Joint Powers Agreement for the Acquisition and Preservation of the Southern Pacific Placerville Branch Railroad Right-of-Way is: "to provide for the acquisition of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company's Placerville Branch ("Placerville Branch"), and to provide reciprocal use agreements for transportation and transportation preservation uses as may be desired by the member agencies through the creation of a joint powers authority." Upon the acquisition of the Placerville Branch in 1996, the SPTC-JPA and its member agencies entered into the Reciprocal Use and Funding Agreement "to establish their joint and severable rights and responsibilities with respect to the acquisition, ownership, use, operation, improvement, maintenance and eventual disposition of the rail corridor."