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President
David Session
(Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc.)

Vice President
Fred Derr, P.E.
(Frederick Derr & Company)

Secretary
Jim Paulmann
(Wilson Miller)

Treasurer/Manatee Chamber Member
Neil Spirtas (Manatee Chamber of Commerce)

Sarasota Chamber Member
Del Borgsdorf (Sarasota Chamber of Commerce)

STARTUPS
South Tampa Bay Area Transportation Partnership
PO Box 155 Bradenton, FL 34206

Executive Director
Michael Guy

• STARTUPS will support a bill that would provide for indexing the local option gas tax to the CPI.
    

• STARTUPS will support incentive-based legislation for those counties that have passed the full local option gas tax. For example making the T.R.I.P. program 75% State and 25% local match for those counties, rather than the current 50%-50% match program for all counties.
    

• STARTUPS will support adjusting the tolls on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge to be comparable to the tolls on similar facilities within the state of Florida.
  

• STARTUPS will support a bill amending Section 338.165 Florida Statutes to include that one quarter (¼) of the Skyway toll revenues collected be used to fund the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority (TBARTA.)
  

• STARTUPS will support restoration and protection of the State Transportation Trust Fund and the retention of funding for programs i.e. T.R.I.P., C.I.G.P., etc.
    

• STARTUPS will support the local option rental car surcharge for regional transportation including airports.
    

• STARTUPS will support the practice of utilizing mobility fees as a tool for mitigating transportation impacts.
    

• STARTUPS will support improvements to Port Manatee to take advantage of the Panama Canal expansion.
    

• STARTUPS will support the U.S. Department of Transportation flexing Federal Transit Administration capital grant funds to local transit providers for capital purchases and/or operation and maintenance.

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