TRANSPORTATION, WATER & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
Meeting Date: June 23, 2025
Subject: CONSIDER Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account Annual Project List for Unincorporated Contra Costa County
Submitted For: Warren Lai || Director | PUBLIC WORKS
Department: PUBLIC WORKS
Referral No: 1
Referral Name: Review legislative matters on transportation, water, and infrastructure
Presenter: Joe Smithonic || Associate Civil Engineer
Contact: Jeff Valeros || Senior Civil Engineer | (925) 313-2031
Referral History:
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 FY 2017/2018 and comprise 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 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) program funds.
SB1 includes annual performance and reporting requirements of local public agencies to be eligible to receive their apportionment of RMRA funds. The information and recommendations contained in this report will fulfill these requirements upon approval by the Board of Supervisors.
Referral Update:
The California State Association of Counties (CSAC) annually provides an estimate of the total gas tax revenues the County can expect to see from the transportation bill, broken down by HUT...
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