"Californians simply want transportation fees and taxes to fund our roads and highways".
On Wednesday of the week of March 29, Governor Jerry Brown and California legislative leaders unveiled a $52 billion transportation bill.
To win support from truckers, who face a big increase in taxes, Brown and legislative leaders agreed to restrict future regulations on greenhouse gas emissions related to commercial trucks.
Democrats hold two-thirds majorities in the Senate and Assembly, and they needed almost every one of those votes to get the measure through. Cannella said he and Brown had hammered out a deal at the governor's mansion just before the vote took place.
The base excise tax will jump 12 cents per gallon for regular gasoline and 20 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. That charge would range from $25 to $175 depending on the value of the vehicle.
The push for approval created a sense of urgency barely a week after Brown released the negotiated proposal alongside Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount, and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles. "Show us that you know how to spend it wisely, '" said Baker. "Tonight's vote to approve this critical transportation funding package was a long overdue step", said Senator Mike McGuire. Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove) spoke of the hardships the tax and fee increases will impose on poor and middle-class Californians.
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The transportation funding package will provide cities and counties with significant annual revenue streams to make local infrastructure improvements like rebuilding and paving local roads and streets and bridge fix. The hikes would generate an estimated $5.2 billion in annual revenue, according to the governor's office. It would prohibit spending the new revenues on anything but transportation. As a result, it led to $130 billion in repairs for road infrastructure. Jerry Brown never ceases to disappoint. They took a courageous stand today that said they will not tolerate the status quo. The ads cost about $1 million, said Kathy Fairbanks, a spokeswoman for the Fix Our Roads Coalition. "This evening, what the Democrats did is, they actually made the burden of living in California that much harder". The money will be used for repairs to roads and bridges as well as for anticongestion projects.
The money extractions will pour $5.2 billion a year into state coffers for ten years.
They set Thursday as a self-imposed deadline to pass what would be the largest road deal in California in more than a quarter century, widely cast as the first true test of Democrats' ability to use a two-thirds majority in both houses they won in the November election. "Those who benefit pay", he stated strongly. The cost of inaction is growing every day. The other half will go directly back to municipalities for local roads. Now the legislature diverts $1 billion a year from weight fees to the general state budget.
"This bill has been a work-in-progress for the past two years".
"For over two years, I have fought for real solutions to California's transportation problems", Cannella said in a statement. It passed the Senate appropriations committee Monday on a party-line vote.
The funds will be allocated to fix local streets and transportation infrastructure, including potholes, public transportation, and improvements to walking and biking corridors. I'm sure the four-term California governor is confident he would have accomplished a lot more had any of his three presidential campaigns (in 1976, 1980 and 1992) produced a victory. "The more we delay fixing our roads, the more costly the repairs will become".
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