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local government on the amount and type of production necessary to meet the housing needs of local jurisdic- tions. Tese new goals promise to be more ambitious – and much more enforceable – than what local govern- ments have been accustomed to. Previously ignored if not met, the Governor has suggested that transpor- tation funding could be withheld from jurisdictions that do not meet the soon to be established long-term statewide production goals.


Transportation Funding Stick Te successful passage of Propo-


sition 69 guarantees that transportation funding may no longer be appropriated by the Legislature for non-transpor- tation expenditures. Proposition 69 does allow a governor to borrow trans- portation funds IF the state general fund and all other special funds were exhausted. Any transportation funds that were borrowed must be paid back


with interest. What Governor Newsom seems


to be suggesting is that transportation dollars be used as a stick to those local governments that continuously fail to meet their housing element require- ments. During his press conference he expressed reservations of withholding funds but stressed the need to solve the housing crisis faced by California’s middle class. When asked, he admitted that it may take a few years to create the new goals and linkages of transpor- tation funding to housing production.


The Constitution Last year, Assemblymember


McCarty introduced AB 1759, which would have put transportation funding into escrow accounts for those cities that did not satisfy their housing elements. Tis approach, not unlike that now proposed by Gov. Newsom, seems to test Article XIX of the state constitution. While the Legislature


has statutory authority to appropriate revenues imposed on vehicles, Article XIX states that modified statutory allocations must demonstrate an “equitable, geographical, and jurisdic- tional distribution.” AGC and local government advocates successfully lobbied McCarty to drop the legis- lation with this fact. Equally important, Transportation


Committee chairman and author of SB1, Senator Beall, said this shortly after the Governor’s budget press conference: “We have an obligation to the voters who overwhelmingly supported SB 1 that addresses the enormous local and state backlog of road safety and repairs needs. I certainly hope these funds, dedicated to fill potholes and dangerous road safety projects, will not be delayed.” More will be known as we get


closer to the May revision of his budget proposal. Stay tuned! 


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