Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-214-R2

2nd Redraft TRP 214

MBTA Capacity and State of Good Repair Reporting

Messrs. Keenan, Eldridge, Lewis and Moore moved that the proposed new text be amended by striking out section 80 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

“SECTION 80. (a) The secretary of transportation shall prepare a report that includes an analysis of: (i) the consolidation of core administrative functions of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation as required by section 5 of chapter 6C of the General Laws; (ii) the achievement of goals identified by the healthy transportation compact in section 33 of said chapter 6C; (iii) the progress or achievements of the performance and asset management advisory council; (iv) the development of a long-term statewide transportation plan pursuant to subsection (d) of section 30 of said chapter 6C; (v) the work of the internal project controls unit required by subsection (c) of section 39 of said chapter 6C; (vi) the amount of taxes assessed pursuant to section 24 of chapter 161A of the General Laws; (vii) the department and the authority’s progress in achieving the benchmarks in sections 60 and 61 of chapter 46 of the acts of 2013; (viii) the department’s removal of employee salaries from capital expenditures, including an update of the number, if any, of employee salaries funded by capital expenditures and the cost of the salaries; (ix) the parking pilot program required by section 80 of said chapter 46; and (x) obtaining mitigation payments from private entities to cover capital and operating costs generated by the impacts of nearby developments.

(b) The report shall further include an analysis and assessment of current capacity constraints, safety conditions and the state of good repair of the commonwealth’s transportation system, including all modes of surface transportation. The assessment shall analyze the current planned operating and capital expenditures of the department, including the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the regional transit authorities, and shall consider and state the baseline of the surface transportation revenues currently available and projected to be available from all sources in all modes of surface transportation, regardless of the fund in which they are kept, from fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2027. The baseline assessment shall: (i) project spending for the maintenance of the existing system, the completion of all expansion projects the commonwealth is legally bound to complete and capital improvements and projects included in the fiscally-constrained, long-range transportation plans mandated by federal law; (ii) consider and incorporate any additional expenditures necessary to implement the most recent capital plans of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The report shall recommend specific and quantified potential new revenue sources pertaining to both operating and capital funds in fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2027, in order to fully address any deficiencies in capacity, safety or state of good repair identified in its assessment; provided, that the report’s revenue recommendations shall consider the needs of both the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the statewide transportation system and provided further that said report may include recommendations beyond own-source revenues and shall remain consistent with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority fare policy set forth in section 61 of chapter 46 of the acts of 2013.

(c) The secretary shall provide status updates of department and authority actions relative to the items identified in this section with the joint committee on transportation not later than August 15, 2015 and October 15, 2015 and shall file its final report with the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, the joint committee on transportation and the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than December 15, 2015.  Thereafter, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Fiscal and Management Control Board, established in section 80A, shall provide monthly updates to the joint committee on transportation.