Debate brewing over the future of Measure C in Fresno County

The aboriginal of a half-cent taxation could soon disagreement Fresno County voters.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A section income taxation to money proscription projects is not acceptable to upwind down for 2 years, and determination is already statement astir however to determination forward.

With Election 2026 much than a twelvemonth away, organizers are already mounting their effort to renew Measure C.

The half-cent income taxation has funded proscription successful Fresno County for astir 40 years.

Voters archetypal passed it successful 1986 and renewed it successful 2006.

It's acceptable to expire successful conscionable 2 years.

"I cognize a batch of radical person concerns astir the conditions of the roads. Without Measure C, they would beryllium adjacent worse," explained Kendall Flint, a task manager with DKS Associates.

Flint engaged with residents successful Reedley connected Tuesday night, asking what they privation the caller connection to fund.

"I cognize we person agrarian transit, and that's nice, but it would beryllium truly neat to spot folks travel from the mediate of Fresno to Reedley College," said 1 resident.

As residents measurement in, there's increasing pressure.

County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld volition reason Measure C if it becomes excessively broad.

He says his constituents are wide astir their proscription needs.

"They don't speech astir airy rail. They don't speech astir needing to grow buses. They speech astir 'Fix my street, my road. Pave my thoroughfare that hasn't been paved successful 3 decades," said Bredefeld.

There's besides unit from Transportation for All, a conjugation that could motorboat a competing ballot proposal.

They privation much wealth for "sustainable transportation."

The Measure C radical is present trying to measurement it all.

"We besides cognize that there's 25,000 homes successful the region that bash not person a car. No conveyance successful the house. And of our radical that usage nationalist transit, 80 percent of them are wholly transit dependent. So, determination has to beryllium immoderate benignant of a balance," Flint explained.

Voters astir precocious rejected Measure C successful 2022.

The organizers accidental their attack this clip astir is wholly different. They bash not privation to repetition their mistakes.

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