To: Board of Supervisors
From: Warren Lai, Public Works Director/Chief Engineer
Report Title: Approve Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account Project List for Unincorporated Contra Costa County, Countywide.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
ADOPT Resolution approving a list of projects for Fiscal Year 2025/2026 funded by the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account funds, and DIRECT staff to submit the list of projects to the California Transportation Commission. (All Districts)
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% allocation to Local Road Funds from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) program in the approximate amount of $21.7 million.
BACKGROUND:
A landmark transportation funding package titled the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 1), was signed into law by Governor Brown on April 28, 2017, to generate new revenue to fund California's significant funding shortfall to maintain the state's multimodal transportation network.
Senate Bill 1 (SB1) increased several taxes and fees to raise over $5.4 billion annually in new transportation revenues. SB1 prioritizes funding towards maintenance, rehabilitation and safety improvements on state highways, local roads and bridges and to improve the state's trade corridors, transit and active transportation facilities.
SB1 funds were made available to cities and counties starting in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017/2018 and comprises two components-an increase in the original gas tax revenue (Highway Users Tax Account, or HUTA) that local agencies have been receiving prior to 2017 and RMRA program funds.
SB1 includes performance and reporting requirements of local public agencies to be eligible to receive their apportionment of RMRA funds. The information and recommendations in this report, once approved by the Board of Supervisors, will fulfill these requirements.
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