For City Council Meeting June 10, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Tanya Williams, City Manager
FROM: Tim Sullivan, Assistant City Manager
Title
Request City Council Adopt Resolution No. 8357, Adopting a List of Projects Funded by Senate Bill 1: The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 for Fiscal Year 2025/2026.
Body
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution identifying a list of projects funded by Senate Bill 1: The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 for Fiscal Year 2025/2026.
BACKGROUND:
On April 28, 2017, the Governor signed Senate Bill 1 (SB-1), also known as the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. This legislation addresses basic road maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety needs on state highways and local streets and roads. The California State Association of Counties provided a very succinct summary of the SB-1 provisions, which is included as Attachment 1. Some of the key provisions of SB-1 include:
The estimated annual funding supported by SB-1 is $5.2 billion, including $1.5 billion apportioned to local cities and $1.5 billion to counties for local streets and road repairs. As of November 1, 2017, the California State Controller (Controller) began depositing various portions of this funding into the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA). A percentage of this new RMRA funding was apportioned by formula to eligible cities and counties pursuant to Streets and Highways Code (SHC) Section 2032(h) for basic road maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety projects on the local streets and roads system.
Pursuant to Streets and Highways Code (SHC) Section 2030(a), the objective of the Local Streets and Roads Program is to address deferred maintenance on the local streets and roads system through the prioritization and delivery of basic road maintenance and rehabilitation projects, as well as critical safety projects. Cities and counties receiving ...
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