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Escondido council approves boost to Safe Routes to School funding, directs larger annual allocation
Summary
The Escondido City Council unanimously approved a one-time $35,000 increase and directed staff to raise the Traffic & Community Safety Commission’s annual allocation from $50,000 to $200,000 (using Measure I funds) to implement priority Safe Routes to School life-safety projects affecting 33 schools.
Escondido’s City Council voted unanimously to boost funding for Safe Routes to School projects and to direct staff to expand the Transportation Commission’s budget for future traffic-safety work.
The council authorized a one-time increase that will allow four near-term traffic-management projects to proceed and directed the city manager to increase the commission’s ongoing annual allocation from $50,000 to $200,000, with the additional amounts identified to come from Measure I funds. Staff said the one-time supplemental request includes $85,000 of project work this fiscal year and that $35,000 of that amount would come from Measure I; the broader life-safety package identified by staff totals about $1.9 million.
Joe Gilart, Escondido’s director of public…
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