Board Actions

In February 2008, MCAG Directors made the following decisions -

• Issued a resolution authorizing the Merced County Regional Waste Management Authority to apply for a grant, Local Government Waste Tire Clean-up/Waste Tire Amnesty Event.  Reauthorized the Amnesty Program with a limit of $2,000 per city and $6,500 for the County for fiscal year 2008/09.
• Rejected a lawsuit claim against the Transit Joint Power Authority for Merced County and referred it to First Transit, Inc. (formerly Laidlaw Transit Services, Inc.).
• Appointed Masoud Niroumand to the San Joaquin Valley Housing Trust as the local government-housing professional for Merced County.
• Appointed Dean Wilson to serve on the Citizens Advisory Committee of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.  Appointed Richard Jantz as the alternate.
• Appointed Tom Grave as the Education Representative and Dennis Cote as the Engineering Representative to the MCAG Citizens Advisory Committee.
• Appointed MCAG Director Johnny Mays as the delegate to the California Councils of Government (CALCOG) and Director Gurpal Samra as the alternate delegate.
• Reappointed existing members Bill Spriggs, Jesse Arthur, and Susan Walsh and appointed new members Joe Rivero, Steve Rath, and Jerry O’Banion to represent MCAG on the San Joaquin Valley Blueprint Regional Advisory Committee.
• Approved MCAG staff to host Planners Roundtable meetings, as part of the San Joaquin Valley Blueprint planning process. 
• Adopted a revised Public Participation Plan.
• Awarded the Highway 99 Atwater Freeway Project Study Report contract to Mark Thomas and Company, not to exceed $500,000.
• Awarded the San Joaquin Valley Express Transit Study contract to Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, not to exceed $200,000.
• Awarded Compensation Survey contract to Bryce Consulting, not to exceed $18,500.
• Directed staff to transmit the fiscal year 2008-09 MCAG Work Program to the member jurisdictions (cities and the county). 
• Responded in the negative to Caltrans’ request for funding a study to determine if Highway 99 should be designated a federal Interstate.  The decision was based on questions, such as would making Highway 99 into an Interstate really translate into more economic development, and is the expense more important than construction of Highway 99 to six lanes throughout the San Joaquin Valley.
• Accepted MCAG Executive Director’s employment evaluation and contract renewal and increased salary. 

This page was last updated on November 12, 2008