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Transportation Funding and Priorities Workshop
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File ID: 2019-01563
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Location: Citywide
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Contact: Ryan Moore, Interim Public Works Director, (916) 808-6629; Lucinda Willcox, Program Manager, (916) 808-5052, Public Works Department
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Presenter: Ryan Moore, Interim Public Works Director, (916) 808-6629; Lucinda Willcox, Program Manager, (916) 808-5052, Public Works Department
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Attachment A: Summary of Transportation Needs
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: Historically, transportation infrastructure maintenance, repair, and construction of new facilities have been funded almost exclusively with dedicated transportation funding sources, primarily state and federal transportation funds, gas taxes, countywide transportation sales tax (Measure A), and dedications and fees/taxes on new development.
Almost all these transportation funding sources are not keeping up with inflation and in some cases are declining, while the funding needs to maintain, upgrade, and modernize the transportation network continues to grow. Although the state transportation effort (Senate Bill 1 or SB1) did provide additional funding, there continue to be challenges funding the City's ongoing responsibilities.
The Sacramento Transportation Authority (STA) is exploring a potential supplemental countywide transportation sales tax measure for the November 2020 election. As part of this effort, each agency in the county presented its unmet transportation needs. Readers can review the presentations for all the cities in the region, transit and rail agencies, Sacramento County, Sacramento Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD) and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) at the following link.
http://www.sacta.org/n_news.html
Based on an analysis of existing plans and policies (discussed in the Policy and Sustainability Sections below), City staff ...
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