{"id":264,"date":"2015-08-13T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/08\/13\/golden-state-in-special-session-on-transportation-funding-governance-2-governance-proposals\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:26:00","slug":"golden-state-in-special-session-on-transportation-funding-governance-2-governance-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/golden-state-in-special-session-on-transportation-funding-governance-2-governance-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State in Special Session on Transportation Funding &#038; Governance. 2 Governance Proposals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we talked about business &amp; labor leaders in California proposing an increase in fees and taxes to generate $6 billion for road funding. \u00a0This week the\u00a0California Economic Summit\u2019s Infrastructure action team suggested transportation governance overhaul including:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Creating additional regional financing authorities<\/strong>\u00a0authorized to build and maintain transportation and goods movement projects\u2014and to enter into public-private partnerships to fund these projects, conduct environmental analysis on a regional scale, and tap new user-generated revenue streams to support the investments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expanding the authority of new Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts<\/strong>\u00a0(EIFDs) to invest in state roads and highways, railroads, and ports. While state law prohibits this type of investment today, lawmakers should reconsider these restrictions\u2014and allow more communities to use EIFDs to support road and goods movement projects by tapping local resources and revenues generated from the increasing value of the land.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caeconomy.org\/reporting\/entry\/whats-missing-from-californias-transportation-special-session\">\u00a0California Economic Summit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we talked about business &amp; labor leaders in California proposing an increase in fees and taxes to generate $6 billion for road funding. \u00a0This week the\u00a0California Economic Summit\u2019s Infrastructure action team suggested transportation governance overhaul including:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Creating additional regional financing authorities<\/strong>\u00a0authorized to build and maintain transportation and goods movement projects\u2014and to enter into public-private partnerships to fund these projects, conduct&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}