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• Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)
Measure M - OCTA administers a variety of
funding programs through Measure M including
Freeway, Transit, Streets and Environmental
Mitigation.
• OCTA Bicycle Corridor Improvement Program
(BCIP) - funded using federal Congestion
Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) funds. Available
to local government agencies in Orange County
for transportation-related projects that reduce
congestion and improve air quality.
• Caltrans - Environmental Justice and Community-
Based Transportation Planning Grants Program
- provide grants for developing and studying the
sustainability of land use plans. Products include
expanded transportation choices, encouragement
of transit oriented and mixed use development,
and a contribution to positive local planning efforts
• Caltrans - Bicycle Transportation Account (BTA) is
an annual program providing state funds for city
projects are designed and developed to achieve
the functional commuting needs and physical
safety of bicyclists.
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - provides
grant funding for several areas including projects
that improve water quality, control water pollution,
and watershed and wetland conservation
8.7 Identify opportunities for bonds,
assessments, fundraising etc.
Explore assessment and/or bond funding
opportunities for construction and on-going
maintenance costs of connectivity improvements
that clearly benefit those financially supporting the
improvements.
General Obligation Bonds make sense when a city
has several different types of facilities it needs to
develop and there is strong community support.
There is a two-thirds voter approval required by
General Obligation Bonds. General Obligation
Bonds are paid for out of the city’s General Tax
Allotment Fund, so the allocation of dollars for park
purposes will compete with the city’s needs for
ongoing operations and other types of needed park
improvements. Only cities with excess general fund
capacity are really able to use General Obligation
Bonds for park and facility development.
Various types of funding options:
• General Obligation Bonds
• Park Bonds
• Revenue Bonds
• Landscape and Lighting Districts
• Mello-Roos
• State Law AB1600
• Fundraising Opportunities
• Grant Programs
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Quimby
Revenue Bonds are a popular way for cities to finance
capital improvements, especially recreation and
park facilities, when the facility being developed
will generate the necessary revenue to pay the debt
service on the bonds. This method is common for
development of sports arenas, convention centers,
theatres and other facilities that generate revenue
through admission, concessions, and rentals. Revenue
Bonds require the city to provide collateral equal
to one and half times the value of the bond issue.
Revenue Bonds do not require voter approval but do
require a four-fifths vote of the city council.
There are two main methods for establishing
assessments to pay for recreation and park facility
development. These are:
• Lighting and Landscape Assessment Districts
• Mello-Roos and other state legislation allowing
cities and park districts to create assessment
districts for capital improvements.
Each of these requires approval by the property
owners who are within the district and are subject to
paying the assessment.
State law AB1600 allows local agencies to impose
an assessment on properties within an improvement
area when the agency can show a nexus that the
improvements being made are a benefit to the
properties being assessed. Under this method, the
agency sends a direct mail ballot to the property
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