Los Angeles Municipal Code Ch. 30 Central City West Transportation Impact Mitigation

A. There is hereby created within the Treasurer’s Office of the City of Los Angeles a special fund to be known as “ Central City West Transportation Impact Mitigation Fund”, hereinafter referred to as “the Fund”, to be administered by the Department of Transportation in accordance with established City practice and in conformance with Government Code Section 66000, et seq.

B. The Fund shall be used for the deposit of fees collected by the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 9 of the Central City West Specific Plan and any other money appropriated or given to this Fund for the mitigation of transportation impacts throughout the Central City West Specific Plan area. Two percent of all fees collected pursuant to the Central City West Specific Plan shall be transferred each year to the Department of Transportation, two percent transferred each year to the Department of City Planning and one percent transferred each year to the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering for administering the Specific Plan.

C. All interest or other earnings from money received into the Fund shall be credited to the Fund and devoted to the purposes set forth herein.

D. The Department of Transportation shall collect fees pursuant to Subsection C of Section 9 of the Central City West Specific Plan and remit all such fees to the Treasurer’s Office for deposit into the Fund.

E. All monies from the Fund shall be expended only as provided in Section 9 of the Central City West Specific Plan and pursuant to the following restrictions:

1. Up to five percent of the revenues placed in the Fund each year shall be used for administrative expenditures, including staff
from the Department of City Planning, Department of Transportation and Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering.
2. Up to 17 percent of the revenues placed in the Fund each year shall be used for local street improvements, such as the
enhancement of the computerized signalization system and the widening of the streets.

3. Up to 15 percent of the revenues placed in the Fund each year shall be used for the acquisition of rights-of-way for construction
of transportation improvements.

4. Up to 25 percent of the revenues placed in the Fund each year shall be used for regional freeway improvements such as
additional ramps on the Harbor and Hollywood freeways.

5. Up to 38 percent of the revenues placed in the Fund each year shall be used for transit improvements, such as a new Metro Rail
transit station.

6. If a Community Facilities District is established to fund a specific transportation improvement or improvements, then money
from the Fund which is allocated for that specific transportation improvement or improvements may be transferred to the Community
Facilities District fund.

F. Expenditures shall be authorized by the General Manager of the Department of Transportation or the Director’s designee, subject to the prior approval for public right of way improvements of the Department of Public Works and subject to the prior approval of the City Council and the Mayor.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 166,706, Eff. 4-3-91.

CHAPTER 31

CITY EMPLOYEES RIDESHARING FUND

Section

(a) There is hereby created within the Treasury of the City of Los Angeles a trust fund known as the “ City Employees Ridesharing Fund,” hereinafter referred to in this Chapter as the “Fund.”

(b) All monies received by the City in each fiscal year from City employees for parking privileges at all City owned lots, or privately owned lots where the City leases space for parking by City employees, shall be deposited in the City Employees Ridesharing Fund. Other monies to be deposited in this Fund shall include all monies collected from City employees for fares in City operated vanpools and for approved personal use of vanpool vehicles; and monies secured from grants or other rideshare incentive programs.

(c) All interest or other earnings attributable to monies in the Fund shall be credited to the Fund.

(d) All monies deposited in the Fund shall be used to pay for costs, exclusive of salaries, incurred in the City employees ridesharing program, to provide for ridesharing enhancements that reduce City employee private vehicle usage in commuting to and from work.

(e) The Fund shall be administered and expenditures shall be authorized by the General Manager of the Personnel Department in accordance with established City practice, provided, however, that no expenditure shall be made from the Fund for any purpose which is contrary to the budget policy of the Personnel Department, as established by the Mayor and City Council with respect to the Fund.

(f) Monies not expended from the Fund in any fiscal year shall not revert to the Reserve Fund, but shall remain in the Fund.

(g) The General Manager of the Personnel Department shall report to the City Council regarding the Fund on an annual basis, within 90 days after the close of the City’s fiscal year. Such report shall identify all receipts into, and all expenditures out of, the Fund, as well as the purposes for which the expenditures were made.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 166,957, Eff. 6-19-91, Oper. 7-1-90. Amended by: Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 176,954, Eff. 10-23-05, Oper. 7-1-05.