Section 104 FY21 RTA Funding Distribution

Notwithstanding any special or general law to the contrary, for fiscal year 2021, $90,500,000 of the amount transferred in item 1595-6370 of section 2E shall be considered operating assistance and distributed to regional transit authorities as determined by a formula that is based upon clearly established metrics and principles and that has been agreed to by each RTA and approved by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, hereinafter referred to as the department. The operating assistance amount shall be spent to advance the goals and targets in the FY20 Bilateral Memorandum of Understanding between each regional transit authority and the department. The remaining $3,500,000 of the amount under item 1595-6370 of section 2E shall be distributed as performance grants to regional transit authorities. The performance grants shall be distributed to regional transit authorities that best demonstrate compliance with or a commitment to the service decisions, quality of service and environmental sustainability recommendations from the report of the task force on regional transit authority performance and funding established pursuant to section 72 of chapter 154 of the acts of 2018. The department may require each regional transit authority to provide data on ridership, customer service and satisfaction, asset management and financial performance, including farebox recovery, and shall compile collected data into a report on the performance of regional transit authorities and each authority's progress toward meeting the performance metrics established in the memorandum of understanding.

This section sets forth the fiscal year 2021 Regional Transit Authorities funding distribution.