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Supervisors approve plan to repair county roads
The roads between Ventura County's cities will be repaired every seven years and eventually brought into better condition under a plan approved Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors.
Today, 45 percent of the roads in the unincorporated parts of the county are rated "fair" or below, based on the condition of the pavement, county Transportation Department Director Butch Britt told the board.
He said it will cost about $51 million over the next five years to bring the roads to an average grade of 70 on the 1-to-100 scale.
Most of the money about $38 million will come from Propositions 1A and 1B. Proposition 1A makes it harder for the state to use the gasoline sales tax for anything other than road maintenance, and Proposition 1B allows the state to raise $20 billion in bond money.
The county will start seeing money from Proposition 1A in the 2008-09 fiscal year, starting at $6 million per year, Britt said. Proposition 1B will start to pay off in 2007-08, with $20 million coming by 2011, Britt said.
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