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With the skyline of downtown Fresno in the
background, Senator Jim Costa in conjunction with local community leaders, held
a press conference on Thursday afternoon, October 25, 2001 to talk about the
importance of extending Measure "C" for another 30 years.
The site of
the press conference was the closed section of 180 East at the junction of
State Route 180/99 Interchange and many of the participants arrived via a
bright shiny new Fresno Area Express (FAX) "Low Emissions Electric Hybrid
Bus.". The original Measure C, authored by Sen. Costa in 1986, paid for
much of 180 through Fresno and Freeway 168 to Clovis in addition to scores of
other county projects. The current half-cent sales tax program expires in
2007
Costa was supported in his efforts by Co-chairs of the Measure
"C" Extension Steering Committee Octavia Diener, Joe Levy and Gordon Webster,
Jr., Fresno City Mayor Alan Autry, Council of Fresno County Governments Chair
Kerman Mayor Trinidad Rodriguez, Fresno Transportation Authority Chair Clovis
City Councilman Harry Armstrong, and Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce
President Paul Besselievre.
In addition to the above elected
officials and local community leaders, the press conference was attended my many
other members of the Measure "C" Steering Committee including FARRC board
Members John Ferdinandi, Dennis Manning and Tom Bailey The "steering
committee" of which FARRC Chair John Ferdinandi is a member, is charged with
setting forth a specific spending plan for the $2.8 Billion that will be
raised my a renewed Measure C over it's 30 year lifetime. the money will be
used for projects such as rail consolidation, regional highways, public
transportation upgrades and bikeways. If approved by the Fresno County Board of
Supervisors, the measure will be placed on the ballot of the November 2002
general election and will need two-thirds voter approval to pass.
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