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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Bi-State Development Agency Act is amended
5by changing Section 2 and adding Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (45 ILCS 105/2)  (from Ch. 127, par. 63s-2)
7    Sec. 2. (a) Of the Commissioners first appointed one shall
8be appointed to serve for a term of one year, one for two
9years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five
10years from the third Monday in January following his
11appointment. Beginning with the appointment to be filled in
12January of 2004, and the expiration of each term of each
13commissioner thereafter, and each succeeding commissioner
14thereafter, the Chairman of the County Board of the County of
15Madison or the County of St. Clair, as the case may be, shall,
16by and with the advice and consent of the respective County
17Board, appoint a successor who shall hold office for a term of
18five years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his
19successor has been appointed and qualified. The commissioners
20shall elect a chairman of the Illinois delegation annually from
21among themselves.
22    (b) The Chairman of the County Board of St. Clair County
23shall appoint a commissioner for the term expiring in January,

 

 

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12004 and in the following year the Chairman of the County Board
2of Madison County shall appoint a commissioner for the term
3expiring in January of that year. Successive appointments shall
4alternate between the Chairman of the St. Clair County Board
5and the Chairman of the Madison County Board, except as may be
6modified by the provisions of subsection (c).
7    (c) In the event that a tax has been imposed in Monroe
8County consistent with the provisions of Section 5.01 of the
9Local Mass Transit District Act, the Chairman of the Monroe
10County Board shall, upon the expiration of the term of a
11commissioner who is a resident of the County in which 3 of the
12then remaining commissioners reside, appoint a commissioner
13with the advice and consent of the Monroe County Board. The
14commissioner appointed by the Monroe County Board shall hold
15office for a term of 5 years and a successor shall be appointed
16by the chairman of the Monroe County Board, with the advice and
17consent of the Monroe County Board. The appointments of the 4
18remaining commissioners shall then continue to alternate
19between St. Clair and Madison County so that each County shall
20continue to retain the appointments of 2 commissioners. To the
21extent that this subsection (c) conflicts with any other
22provision of this Section or Section 3, the provisions of this
23subsection (c) control.
24    (d) A county authorized to appoint commissioners that does
25not contract for light rail service with the Bi-State
26Development Agency and does not pay for that service in part

 

 

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1with county-generated revenue shall be limited to one
2commissioner. When the term of an existing commissioner expires
3from the county without light rail service and there is another
4commissioner from that county serving an unexpired term, the
5commissioner leaving shall be replaced by an appointee from a
6county contracting for light rail service; this process shall
7continue until the county without light rail service has only
8one commissioner. At that point, that one commissioner will
9continue to be appointed as previously authorized by this Act.
10(Source: P.A. 93-432, eff. 6-1-04.)
 
11    (45 ILCS 105/10 new)
12    Sec. 10. Urbanized Area Formula Funding program; Madison
13Mass Transit District.
14    (a) As used in this Section:
15    "Agency" means the Bi-State Development Agency.
16    "District" means the Madison Mass Transit District.
17    "Federal formula" means the Urbanized Area Formula Funding
18program under 49 USC 5307.
19    (b) The Agency shall pass through to the District on an
20annual basis the amount of federal formula assistance equal to
21100% of the Alton/Wood River urbanized area formula allocation
22as capital assistance, on the basis that the District is the
23exclusive provider of public transit service in the Alton/Wood
24River urbanized area with total responsibility for capital and
25operating expenses to deliver such services. The District shall

 

 

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1be responsible for any obligations associated with the receipt
2of these funds as required by the Federal Transit
3Administration.
4    (c) The Agency shall pass through to the District 100% of
5that portion of the federal formula funds allocation generated
6to the St. Louis urbanized area as a result of the District's
7filing of National Transit Database statistics for passengers
8miles and revenue miles for those transportation services
9operated and reported by the District, including motor bus,
10demand response, and vanpool services, as defined by the
11Federal Transit Administration. The Agency shall use the
12Federal Transit Administration Unit Values of Data, published
13annually in the Federal Register, to calculate this allocation
14each year. The District shall be responsible for any
15obligations associated with the receipt of these funds as
16required by the Federal Transit Administration.
17    (d) The Agency shall retain the federal formula funds
18allocated by the Federal Transit Administration to the region
19on the basis of Madison County, Illinois population and
20population density within the St. Louis urbanized area.
21Additionally, the Agency shall retain those federal formula
22funds allocated on the basis of regular fixed route and
23seasonal services operated and reported by the Agency in the
24St. Louis urbanized area. These revenues shall constitute the
25total financial commitment and payment in full for:
26        (1) all claims, debts or obligations, rights,

 

 

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1    liabilities, direct or indirect, made or asserted by the
2    Agency, arising out of any previous service agreements,
3    issues, or relationship between the District and the Agency
4    occurring on or before June 30, 2019; and
5        (2) any capital or operating subsidy for the MetroLink
6    Light Rail System, as currently configured or as may be
7    extended in the future. The Agency shall afford the
8    District's bus passengers and vehicles full access to the
9    MetroLink system without any additional fees or surcharges
10    above and beyond those fares typically charged residents of
11    the St. Clair County, the City of St. Louis, Missouri, or
12    St. Louis County, Missouri, for comparable distance trips,
13    subject to any agreement between the Agency and the
14    District existing on the effective date of this amendatory
15    Act of the 101st General Assembly, until such time
16    MetroLink is extended into Madison County.