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Land use committee forwards $22.5 million SB1-funded street-repair list to full Board
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use & Transportation Committee voted to send a list of local street and curb-ramp projects that would receive an estimated $22.5 million in FY2019–20 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account funds (established by Senate Bill 1) to the full Board with recommendation.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee voted April 15 to send to the full Board a resolution approving a list of local streets and curb-ramp projects to be funded from FY2019–20 Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) money created by California Senate Bill 1. Oscar Quintanilla, a capital finance analyst with the Department of Public Works, told the committee the department identified projects that would receive an estimated $22,500,000 in local streets and roads funds next fiscal year.
Quintanilla said the five projects would cover roughly 148 residential blocks and “over 388 compliant curb ramps” across the city and that the department receives RMRA funds annually via a state formula. He also pointed supervisors to maps in the packet showing how the RMRA awards relate to other expected city transportation funding.
Committee members praised the department’s work but flagged implementation problems at the contractor level. Supervisor Safaie said some contractors are pulled off smaller neighborhood projects when they are also working on larger arterial jobs, leaving pedestrian and curb-ramp work incomplete; she used recent paving on Masonic Avenue as an example and said residents called her after crews left barriers up for days. Chair Aaron Peskin and other members had no substantive questions and took the motion from Supervisor Safaie to send the resolution to the full Board with recommendation “without objection.”
The resolution implements the state requirement that local jurisdictions adopt an annual list of projects eligible for RMRA distribution and will appear on the Board’s April 23 agenda for final action.
