Item Coversheet

Item Number: 37.



MEETING DATE:  6/14/2016

DEPARTMENT:
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGENCY

DEPT HEAD/DIRECTOR: Brent Barnes

AGENDA ITEM PREPARER: Brent Barnes

SBC DEPT FILE NUMBER:

SUBJECT:

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGENCY - B. BARNES

Approve the County of San Benito Joining the Fix Our Roads Coalition.

SBC FILE NUMBER: 105



AGENDA SECTION:

CONSENT AGENDA

BACKGROUND/SUMMARY:

The Fix Our Roads Coalition is a broad coalition of cities, counties, labor, business, and transportation advocates formed to address California's chronic transportation infrastructure funding shortfall.  They support the following priorities to achieve this:

     - Make a significant investment in transportation infrastructure

     - Focus on maintaining and rehabilitating the current system

     - Invest a portion of diesel tax and/or cap and trade revenue to high priority goods movement projects

     - Raise revenues across a broad range of options

     - Equal split between state and local projects

     - Strong accountability requirements to protect taxpayers' investment

     - Provide consistent annual funding levels



BUDGETED:

No

SBC BUDGET LINE ITEM NUMBER:



CURRENT FY COST:

None

STAFF RECOMMENDATION:

Staff respectfully recommends that the County of San Benito join the Fix Our Roads Coalition.

ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL:


BOARD ACTION RESULTS:

Approved per staff recommendation. (4/0 vote, Supervisor De La Cruz absent)
ATTACHMENTS:
DescriptionUpload DateType
Coalition fact sheet5/31/2016Backup Material