Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Jim Eggemeyer, Director, Office of Sustainability
Subject: Amendment to the Agreement with WageWorks, Inc. to Provide Commute Alternative Benefit Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the agreement with WageWorks for commute alternative benefit services to extend the agreement by 12 months to June 30, 2019, increasing the contract amount by $984,000 for a new not to exceed amount of $2,019,000, and change the County's payment method.
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BACKGROUND:
The San Mateo County Commute Alternatives Program (CAP) was established in December 1991 to comply with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's Regulation 13, Rule 1. Rule 1 required all companies in the Bay Area that employ 100 or more workers, to implement measures to reduce the number of employees who commute in single occupant vehicles. In 1992, the Board approved the initial transit subsidy of $20 per month to help meet that mandate and provide an incentive to employees to use public transit, or other means besides single occupant vehicles when traveling to and from work.
In November 2004, the voters of San Mateo County passed Measure A, a half-cent sales tax to fund transportation-related projects throughout the County for 25 years. Currently, CAP receives $1.2 million annually from Measure A to fund the program.
CAP provides a comprehensive set of services and up to $75 subsidy per month to County employees to use public transit, or vanpool, and up to $20 per month to employees to carpool, walk, or bike to work. Additionally, CAP offers the Commuter Bus program, an Emergency Ride Home program, carpool-only parking facilities, and bike lockers. Currently, an average of 1,100 County employees participate monthly in CAP.
Since 2009, WageWorks has been administering the above-referenced County subsidies and purchasing monthly transit passe...
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