County protects road projects by appropriating road fund balance

In an effort to protect road projects against a future state raid of transportation funding, the County of San Diego appropriated $12 million from the county’s road fund balance for projects in various stages of planning, design, and construction.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 October 14 to establish $12 million of appropriations from the road fund balance into the Detailed Works Program of the county’s Department of Public Works and to designate that money for contingency purposes for planning, review, design, and construction phases of road construction projects current...