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REPORT - GOSONOMA - NOVEMBER 2020 TRANSPORTATION SALES TAX BALLOT MEASURE
BACKGROUND: The Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA) Board has been discussing when and how to ask voters to continue support for a local tax for transportation. In March 2019, then SCTA Chair Landman formed the Measure M ad hoc committee to help focus the approach. Members of the ad hoc are Chair Susan Gorin and Directors Bagby, Gurney, Landman, Rabbitt and Rogers. The SCTA advisory committees reviewed the strawman proposal in late January and early February. In February and March, the SCTA Board took public comment and deliberated on the strawman. The direction to SCTA staff was to drop the proposed structure, simplify the content and provide greater detail on the overall expenditure plan. The DRAFT Expenditure Plan, GoSonoma, was developed to include four programs in two categories: (Category A) fix roads and fill potholes and improve traffic (65%); (Category B) improve alternatives to cars, fight cl...
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