{"id":490,"date":"2016-04-28T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/04\/28\/trend-west-coast-solution-to-low-road-funding-incremental-sales-tax\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:44:00","slug":"trend-west-coast-solution-to-low-road-funding-incremental-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-west-coast-solution-to-low-road-funding-incremental-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"TREND. West Coast Solution to low road funding? Incremental sales tax."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What proposal is being bandied about to improve local transportation funding in California?\u00a0<\/strong>incremental sales tax\u00a0for counties to raise transportation revenue<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the recommended benchmarks for a local transporation incremental sales tax in California?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Flexibility &amp; Inclusiveness.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Need\u00a0local sales tax authority that can adapt to changing transportation needs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clear bonding authority.\u00a0<\/strong>Leverage the sales tax revenue for bonds &amp; other financial mechanisms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sound familiar?<\/strong>\u00a0Local TIRZs for transportation funding have been or are being created in South Padre and Weatherford, TX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/sales-tax-revenue-bonds-provide-46102\/\">Orrick |\u00a0Sales Tax Revenue Bonds Provide Critically Needed Transportation Funding Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What proposal is being bandied about to improve local transportation funding in California?\u00a0<\/strong>incremental sales tax\u00a0for counties to raise transportation revenue<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the recommended benchmarks for a local transporation incremental sales tax in California?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Flexibility &amp; Inclusiveness.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Need\u00a0local sales tax authority that can adapt to changing transportation needs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clear bonding authority.\u00a0<\/strong>Leverage the sales tax revenue for bonds &amp; other financial mechanisms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sound familiar?<\/strong>\u00a0Local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local-government","category-special-districts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}