September 21, 2021
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Overview:
OCTA’s mission is to develop and deliver transportation solutions to enhance quality of life and keep Orange County moving. Since its formation in 1991, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has planned and delivered transportation improvements throughout the 34 cities and unincorporated areas of Orange County.
OCTA keeps people moving in the state’s third largest county by:
OCTA also administers Measure M, a ½ sales tax for transportation improvements renewed by Orange County voters in 2006. Measure M provides funding for freeway improvements, regional and local streets and roads projects and transit improvements.
Primary Funding Sources:
Local transportation sales tax, state and federal transportation funding
Total Members:
35: the county and 34 incorporated cities
Population Represented:
3,150,000
Staff:
474 administration, 865 union = 1339 total
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Board Makeup:
Section 130052 of the Public Utilities Code defines the 18 member governance structure of the board. Members include: (1) five members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors; (2) five city member with one from each of the five supervisor districts selected by the City Selection Committee members within each district on a population-weighted voting basis; (3) five city members, with one from each of the five supervisor districts, elected on a “one city, one vote” basis by the City Selection Committee members within each district; and (4) two public members appointed by a majority vote of the other 15 voting members of the Authority. In addition, the Director of Transportation, District 12, who shall be appointed by the Governor as a nonvoting member.
A city that is within more than one supervisorial district shall be considered part of the district where the highest percentage of the city’s population resides. Under this circumstance, the entire city’s population shall be used for population-weighted voting purposes. Each city member shall be a mayor or a city council member serving within the county. Terms of office of each city member shall be determined by the City Selection Committee. A city member’s term shall cease if he or she no longer serves as a member of a city council or as the mayor of a city.
Each public member shall be a resident of Orange County who is not then serving, and has not within the last four years served, as an elected official of a city within the county, as an elected official of any agency or special district within Orange County, or as an elected official of the county. Each public member shall serve for a term of four years.
Executive Director:
Darrell Johnson
CALCOG Board Representative:
Patrick Harper, Council Member, City of Fountain Valley
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