Where the money comes from
Key Takeaway: Most transportation revenue comes from state road funds (HUTA and SB 1), the voter-approved Measure D sales tax, state and federal grants, and disaster reimbursements that arrive after storm and fire repairs.
How transportation revenue can be used
Key Takeaway: Revenue labeled "flexible" can fund any transportation purpose, such as maintenance, repair, or safety work. State law and voter approval limit it to transportation.
General Fund contributions to transportation
The General Fund also pays the share of debt service on disaster financing above what the Road Fund pays. The Road Fund pays up to $2.0 million a year, and the General Fund pays the remainder.
Where the money goes
Key Takeaway: The County spent money on disaster response and repair in every year of this period. The County has had seven federally declared disasters in the past ten years.
County Service Areas
Assessments and taxes include benefit assessments, property tax shares, and related tax relief subventions. They exclude interest, disaster reimbursements, and other CSA revenue.
Explore the detail
Every figure on this page traces to the rows below. For program spending, expand a program type to list its projects. Copy pastes into Excel, including any expanded projects.
Notes and definitions
Period and scope
- Fiscal years run July 1 to June 30. FY 2017-18 ends June 30, 2018.
- FY 2026-27 is excluded because only the first quarter had posted and most of its revenue was not yet recorded.
- All amounts are actuals in nominal dollars. No budgets, estimates, or projections appear on this page.
Program spending
- Program spending is what each fund paid for work by the Public Works Transportation Division within the Community Development and Infrastructure Department (CDI), plus capital assets, contributions to other agencies, and transfers for capital projects.
- Shown separately and excluded: in debt service on disaster financing, and in refunds of prior-year revenue.
- Transfers between these funds, and debt principal entries with their offsetting entries, net to zero in every year and are excluded.
Debt financing and disaster reimbursements
- Bond and loan proceeds count as revenue when received. Repairs after the 2022-23 winter storms were financed through a 2024 bond issue and an internal loan.
- Federal and state disaster reimbursements count as revenue when received and are applied to bond principal.
- Principal payments post with an offsetting entry, so each dollar of repair work is counted once in program spending.
- Revenue totals include both the financing and the later reimbursements that repay it. Read debt financing as a timing bridge, not additional resources.
Negative values and reconciliation
- Negative amounts are fair-value adjustments to interest earnings and reversals or true-ups of prior-year insurance, disaster, and grant revenue.