Residents urge board to prioritize infrastructure funding, request ZIP‑code breakdowns
During public comment on the county budget survey, residents urged supervisors to prioritize long‑standing infrastructure needs — sidewalks, lighting, drainage and a North Shore resilience center — and asked for geographic (ZIP‑code) results to target funding to underserved areas.
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Ivana Uriarte told the Board she appreciated the county's community budget survey and urged supervisors to direct more discretionary funding toward infrastructure needs in historically underserved and unincorporated communities, highlighting sidewalk gap closures, street lighting, crosswalks, shade infrastructure and the North Shore Community Resilience Center as priorities. "This reinforces the need to increase discretionary funding for the UCI so these long standing infrastructure needs can move forward," Uriarte said.
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