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Staff Update on City Efforts to Advocate for Accelerated Repaving of East 14th Street
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This is a staff update to the Facilities and Transportation Committee on various efforts to advocate for the accelerated repaving of East 14th Street in San Leandro.
BACKGROUND
As highlighted at the March 7, 2018 Committee meeting, one of the City's longstanding priorities at the state level is the facilitation of repaving East 14th Street as soon as possible given the neglected state of the road surface. Because this road is State Route 185, responsibility for its maintenance rests with Caltrans. This priority is also reflected in the City Council's adopted state legislative platform and has been the focus of numerous conversations, meetings and site visits led by the Mayor, members of the Council and staff over the past several years.
In an effort to assist the City in the achieving the above-referenced goal, Assembly Member Bonta's office organized a meeting in early 2018 that included the Caltrans District 4 Director as well as City staff. At the meeting the District Director confirmed that a segment of East 14th Street from Bayfair Drive to Hesperian Blvd is already scheduled for repaving in fall 2018. Attendees at the meeting also continued to push for ideas that would facilitate repaving the remainder of East 14th Street on an accelerated timeline.
The District Director also informed City staff that Caltrans planned to submit a request to the California Transportation Commission (CTC) to formally program SB1 funds for repaving the remaining sections of East 14th Street. However, even with this potential infusion of SB1 funds, the remaining repaving work is not programmed to take place for another three to four years. SB1 funds are not guaranteed given a voter recall effort that will appear on the November 6th state-wide ballot as Proposition 6.
In an effort to accelerate this repaving schedule, the Di...
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