2025 Public Hearing Notice
The Citizen’s Watchdog Committee (CWC) invites you to provide your input on 2000 Measure A expenditures, including the results of the annual compliance audit for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.
Join us at the annual public hearing:
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. (time certain)
In Person: VTA Headquarters, 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134 - Conference Room B-106
Via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86577175373 Webinar ID: 865 7717 5373
Contact the Office of the Board Secretary for questions. Sign language and interpreter services will be provided upon request at least five days prior to the meeting. Written comments are accepted until 10:00 a.m. on May 6 by email to board.secretary@vta.org.
For more detaisl, please visit the Accela Meeting Portal
In November 2000, the voters in Santa Clara County approved Measure A, a 30-year half cent sales tax devoted to specified public transit capital improvement projects and operations. Measure A passed by a 70.3 percent majority vote.
Collection of the 2000 Measure A sales tax began on April 1, 2006 and will continue through March 31, 2036.
The VTA Board of Directors is responsible for implementation of the 2000 Measure A Program and for all policy-related decisions including the composition, implementation schedule and funding level of projects.
The Measure A ballot listed 14 specific projects or project areas:
- Extending BART from Alameda County to the cities of Milpitas, San Jose and Santa Clara
- Providing connections from the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport to BART, Caltrain and VTA light rail
- Extending light rail from downtown San Jose to the East Valley
- Purchasing low-floor light rail vehicles
- Improving Caltrain by double-tracking to Gilroy and electrifying from Palo Alto to Gilroy Increasing the level of Caltrain service
- Constructing a new Palo Alto Intermodal Transit Center
- Improving service in major bus corridors
- Upgrading the Altamont Commuter Express (ACE) Service
- Improving Highway 17 Express Bus Service
- Connecting Caltrain with the Dumbarton Rail Corridor
- Purchasing zero-emission buses and constructing support facilities
- Developing new light rail corridors
- Funding operating and maintenance costs for increased bus, rail and paratransit services
The 2000 Measure A ballot also specified the following mandatory requirements:
- The sales tax would end 30 years after implementation.
- An independent Citizens Watchdog Committee of private citizens, not elected officials, who comprise VTA's Citizens Advisory Committee, would, among other duties, review all expenditures and issue reports to
Santa Clara County
Citizens Watchdog Committee
An independent Citizens Watchdog Committee of private citizens, not elected officials, who comprise VTA's Citizens Advisory Committee, would, among other duties, review all expenditures and issue reports to Santa Clara County residents on how the funds are being spent.
Citizens Watchdog Committee Annual Reports
Fiscal Year 2023 Expenditures Dashboard
