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Public Works outlines special-district budgets; board questions SR 41 impact-fee accounting and consolidation options
Summary
Public Works presented proposed FY25-26 special district budgets for roads, water and sewer; supervisors raised consolidation and right-sizing as priorities and a public commenter questioned a jump in road impact fee revenues and how fees will be applied to the State Route 41 project.
The Madera County Public Works Department presented the proposed FY2025-26 special districts budgets on June 9, describing operations for roughly 120 road districts and 33 water and sewer districts and listing nearly $18 million in road-district fund balances.
Dominic Tyburski, Public Works, walked supervisors through maps and line-item tables showing lane miles, connections and proposed budgets by supervisorial district. Staff highlighted grant-supported water and sewer improvement projects (about $5.6 million completed recently and $9.1 million underway) and said Measure T has supplemented district work, enabling more miles of road surfacing in recent years.
Board questions: consolidation, right-sizing and evacuation routes Supervisors asked about opportunities to combine underfunded districts and to 'right-size' maintenance assessments where communities have paid low rates for decades and can't sustain…
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