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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MAY 3, 2016 <br />TITLE: <br />AMEND SITE LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH <br />THE ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION <br />AUTHORITY FOR BUS PASSENGER <br />SERVICES AT THE SANTA ANA REGIONAL <br />TRANSPORTATION CENTER <br />(STRATEGIC PLAN NO, 3, 2C) <br />CITY MAjII GER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on I" Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute the First Amendment to the Site <br />License Agreement with Orange County Transportation Authority, for the term beginning May 3, <br />2016, through the remaining three of five one-year renewal options to be granted at the City's <br />discretion, to compensate the City $2,282 annually for the use of the license area for bus <br />passenger services at the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center, subject to nonsubstantive <br />changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) is a regional transportation hub that <br />brings together Amtrak, Metrolink, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA), and <br />interstate bus services. It is open to the public seven days a week from 5:00 a.m. to midnight. <br />The facility contains approximately 35,000 square feet of total rental space, including ten bus <br />bays. Currently, four bus bays are licensed to OCTA, five are licensed to private bus operators, <br />and one bus bay remains vacant. <br />In 2009, the City entered into Site License Agreement No. N-2009-046 with OCTA for the use of <br />four bus bays at the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (Exhibit 1). Bus Bays 1, 2, and 3 <br />primarily service OCTA commuter services Monday through Friday. Bus Bay 10 services OCTA <br />bus Route 59, which operates seven days a week. Earlier this year, OCTA contacted the City <br />requesting to license one additional bus bay for the implementation of Bravo! Route 560 service <br />starting in June 2016. This new route will operate every 12 minutes during rush hour and every <br />18 minutes, midday, between SARTC and Goldenwest Street in Westminster. Every other trip will <br />serve Long Beach. Route 560 will travel Seventeenth Street and Westminster Avenue along the <br />same route as OCTA's existing Route 60 but with fewer stops. This new rapid bus service will <br />25H-1 <br />