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