ECA Newsletter 6-4-18
John’s Soapbox
Vote Wisely My Friends!
Next week, June 11-14, Sonoma County will be holding their budget hearing department by department. I will be physically in attendance on behalf of all the ECA Membership.
What is some of the more interesting things to be discussed next week? One Department that is “near and dear” to many of our members is the Transportation and Public Works Department. Just take a look at some of the Road Projects scheduled for Sonoma County that were recently in a Press Democrat article:
Road Repair Projects
Ferguson Road Mile Marker 10-11.31 (Pavement chip seal)
Furlong Road Mile Marker 10-11.73 (Pavement chip seal)
Poplar Avenue Mile Marker 10-11 (Pavement chip seal)
Bohemian Highway Mile Marker 13.93-18.78 (Pavement overlay)
Grove Street Mile Marker 11.79-13.87 (Pavement overlay)
River Road Mile Marker 30.00-34.21 (Pavement overlay)
Willowside Road Mile Marker 10.16-11.17 (Pavement repair)
Wallace Road Mile Marker 10-11.49 (Pavement repair)
River Road Mile Marker 30-34.24 (Ditching)
Los Alamos Road Mile Marker 10.94-14.30 (Ditching)
Bohemian Highway Mile Marker 10-13.60 (Ditching)
Ross Road Mile Marker 10.61-11.86 (Ditching)
Neeley Road Mile Marker 14.92 (Viaduct replacement)
Summerhome Park Road Mile Marker 10.41 (Viaduct replacement)
Porter Creek Road Mile Marker 19.89-20.19 (Pavement grind and patch)
River Road Mile Marker 12.14-12.54 (Pavement grind and patch)
Tomales Road Mile Marker 10-10.30 (Pavement grind and patch)
Arnold Drive Mile Marker 13.30-13.60 (Pavement grind and patch)
Mountain Road Mile Marker 10.54 (Culvert replacement)
Coleman Valley Road Mile Marker 17.57 (Culvert replacement)
Salmon Creek Road Mile Marker 12.29 (Culvert replacement)
Chiquita Road Mile Marker 11.69 (Culvert replacement)
Bonness Road Mile Marker 10.13 (Culvert replacement)
Bonness Road Mile Marker 10.42 (Culvert replacement)
Lytton Station Road Mile Marker 11.14 (Culvert replacement)
Lytton Station Road Mile Marker 11.16 (Culvert replacement)
West Dry Creek Road Mile Marker 14.96 (Culvert replacement)
West Dry Creek Road Mile Marker 10.45 (Culvert replacement)
Windsor Road Mile Marker 11.99 (Culvert replacement)
Windsor Road Mile Marker 12.21 (Culvert replacement)
Irwin Lane Mile Marker 11.19 (Culvert replacement)
To read the entire article, click here—
As the budget hearings loom, I am hearing that nothing will be proposed to be cut out of the General Fund amount of $12.1 million that is budgeted for 2018 expenditures. Also helping tremendously is the estimated $10 million coming to Sonoma County from the taxes raised by Senate Bill 1 that is helping us out.
SB1 is making many of us quite happy but there are ominous “clouds” on the horizon. The repeal of SB1 effort has turned in their signatures needed to get on the November ballot. The other thing I hear is that polling for the repeal of SB1 is looking pretty good for the folks that want to repeal this tax on fuel that is helping us so tremendously. What can you do about it? First and foremost, vote for candidates who support SB1. Secondly, vote for AB69 tomorrow which would put the tax revenues into an untouchable Lockbox so those funds can only be spent on road projects that they were intended for. Other than that-we wait until the end of June and begin a “war against the Repeal of SB1”.
Vote wisely my friends-there are several candidates out there running for Governor who clearly state they want to kill SB! And that would klll the extra $10 million going into our Sonoma County roads projects listed here. Do you want that?
That’s All Folks-
John
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June 5-Election is Here-
ECA Recommends-
*City of Petaluma-Mayor-Mike Harris
*Sonoma County Supervisor races-David Rabbitt and James Gore
*AB 69 (SB-1 Revenue in a “Lock Box”)-YES
*RM 3 (Bridge Toll Increase for Roadwork)- YES
