Sacramento County’s Board of Supervisors has long acted as if county funds shouldn’t barely be used to fix more than 2,200 miles of roads within its jurisdiction. Rather, they seem to believe that taxpayers should foot the tab for road upgrades by way of ever-higher sales taxes.
The supervisors’ intentional failure to adequately reinvest in county infrastructure, year after year, has led to the worst roads in the county —worse than any city. And now supervisors will discuss Tuesday whether the roads have gotten bad enough to motivate voters to approve another half-cent sales tax increase.
In a recent survey supervisors will also discuss Tuesday, the answer appears to be no. We’re all in for one bumpy ride…