A secret committee of Fresno’s regional planning could be serving as the vehicle to help special interest groups leverage $2 million in tax dollars and exploit a loophole to lower the threshold of approval to extend Measure C, Fresno County’s half-cent, multi-billion dollar transportation tax, a new complaint alleges.
A complaint filed Sunday with the Fresno County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Unit alleges that Fresno’s Council of Governments and Transportation Authority are violating California’s marquee transparency laws to host the shadow committee and their efforts could be teetering on the verge of misusing taxpayer funds in support of political advocacy surrounding the prospective ballot measure…