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Clackamas officials push to protect ODOT accountability and avoid renewed tolling as lawmakers weigh new funding tools
Summary
Local officials at the Jan. 13 Clackamas C4 meeting urged preserving accountability provisions from last yearC2B4s transportation package and warned against reintroducing tolling; Rep. Mark Gamba outlined a two-step approach to set maintenance standards and compute a road-user charge to stabilize funding.
Representative Mark Gamba told Clackamas jurisdictions on Jan. 13 that the region must find a durable way to fund road maintenance, not simply revert to past approaches.
"What I'm doing is what I hope to be a first step in creating a new system," Gamba said, describing a proposal that would require ODOT to produce an empirical set of maintenance standards and then calculate a per-mile charge to fund preservation. The goal, he said, is to separate maintenance funding from larger "new shiny things" so preservation is protected by a stable revenue mechanism.
The comments came amid heightened concern about the stateC2B4s short-session response to…
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