Infrastructure
California’s aging infrastructure is not keeping pace with the growth of our state. This is causing problems for public safety, wasting time and productivity in traffic backups, shortages in natural resources, and danger to average citizens.
Roads & Highways
- Growth should pay for growth.
- Traffic congestion is a state problem.
- Cut the red tape and fix the roads!
Budget shortfalls have caused public safety to suffer. The early release of prisoners and the realignment of state prisoners to county jails puts California families at risk. Stockton will break their record for homicides in 2011. The state has taken money from municipalities and that has hurt public safety. Fewer police, diversion programs cut, and people in dire need have created a climate that allows crime to flourish. Even when the criminals are caught, we have to choose the worst of the worst because prison space is very limited.
Public Safety first - The state budget must support keeping the state a safe place to raise a family.
- The money for realignment needs to be guaranteed.
- Ensure stable funding for cities.
- No state cuts to municipal police and fire protection departments.
Failing infrastructure has put the public at risk.
Infrastructure Safety
- Ensure that pipelines are inspected and replaced.
- Levies need to be assessed, maintained, and in some cases rebuilt.
For many reasons, California has not built infrastructure to keep pace with growth. It is already hard enough to build anything in California; highway construction is no exception. Projects take too long, are brought to a virtual standstill by environmental studies, and are mired in multi-level bureaucratic agencies. Worse, developers that are busy building new communities are not paying for the needed infrastructure to support their communities. Remember, growth pays for growth.
The Delta is the most productive farmland in the State of California. Water storage and conveyance is also a hotly contested issue in this district. We are ground zero for California’s water problems. The Delta and California’s water supply is one earthquake away from an epic disaster. Many of the Delta’s levies are in dire need of being rebuilt. Worse, is the lack of storage capacity in the Delta water system. Salt-water intrusion and lost farmlands are also major concerns for the Delta.
California needs more water, more water storage, more water sources, and more water ideas.
- Support for more water storage.
- Prevent salt water intrusion into the Delta.
