Amendment ID: S2481-16-R1

Redraft Amendment 16

RTA

Mr. Tarr, Ms. O'Connor Ives and Mr. Ross move to amend the amendment by striking out section 30 in its entirety and inserting in place thereof the following:-

SECTION 30. Item 1595-6370 of section 2E of said chapter 47 is hereby amended by adding the following words:-; provided, that not more than $2,000,000 of the funds allocated herein shall be distributed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to regional transit authorities that have agreed to remedial plans. Said plans shall include specific financial performance indicators and shall be designed: (i) to eliminate any unfunded deficits within 3 years and to forestall the reoccurence of such deficits, if any, thereafter; (ii) for regional transit authorities for which additional resources could maintain or expand successful service initiatives; (iii) for regional transit authorities to initiate, maintain or expand service to an identified need that is a priority population of the state or municipalities; and (iv) for services and programs operated by the regional transit authorities which the department deems to be a best practice service or program; provided further that the department shall submit a report to the joint committee on transportation and the senate and house committee on ways and means not later than March 15,2019 on the fiscal health and remediation efforts of each regional transit authority that received such mitigation funds.