SEC. 8A.109. ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF REVENUE.
§ 8A.109
The Board of Supervisors may dedicate motor vehicle-related tax revenues to the transportation agency, and the Mayor, Board, and Agency must work to develop new funding sources—including taxes or special assessments that the Agency can propose directly to voters or affected parties without needing approval from city leadership.
The Board of Supervisors can direct money from gas taxes and vehicle-related fees to the transportation agency. The Mayor, Board of Supervisors, and the Agency are supposed to find new ways to pay for the Agency's work. Unless state law blocks it, the Agency can propose new taxes or fees directly to voters or property owners without getting permission from the Mayor or Board first. The Agency can also study different funding ideas to figure out what might work.
- Controversial:This section gives the Agency power to propose taxes and special assessments directly to the public without mayoral or supervisorial approval, which delegates significant fiscal authority away from elected representatives and may be contentious.
- Complex:Subsection (b) is a long, heavily parenthetical sentence with multiple conditional clauses and exclusions that obscures the core grant of authority to the Agency.
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Official text
(a) To the extent allowed by law, the Board of Supervisors may, by ordinance, dedicate to the Agency revenues from sources such as gas taxes, motor vehicle licensing taxes or other available motor vehicle-related revenue sources.
(b) The Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and the Agency diligently shall seek to develop new sources of funding for the Agency's operations, including sources of funding dedicated to the support of such operations, which can be used to supplement or replace that portion of the Municipal Transportation Fund consisting of appropriations from the General Fund of the City and County. Unless prohibited by preemptive state law, the Agency may submit any proposal for increased or reallocated funding to support all or a portion of the operations of the Agency, including, without limitation, a tax or special assessment directly to the electorate for approval, or to the owners of property or businesses to be specially assessed, or to any other persons or entities whose approval may be legally required, without the further approval of the Mayor or the Board of Supervisors. The Agency shall be authorized to conduct any necessary studies in connection with considering, developing, or proposing such revenue sources.
(Added November 1999; Amended by Proposition A, Approved 11/6/2007)