Congressman Salud Carbajal sent Monday afternoon a letter to state leaders recognizing the $100 million fund for special districts’ relief in the FY22 Legislative Budget Proposal.
Nine members of the California Congressional Delegation co-signed. . The June 14 letter, sent to Governor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, and Senate pro Tempore Toni Atkins, is a reinforcement of support from a 15-member Congressional Delegation letter to State leadership sent May 11.
“We write today to thank you for considering this need, and we applaud the California Legislature for including a $100 million fund for special districts’ pandemic assistance in its FY22 budget proposal,” the letter reads. “This, among other proposals to assist with port services, transit operations, and utility arrears, would help alleviate financial stresses created for special districts providing essential services to millions of Californians.”
The letter continues: “More than 2,000 of these local governments across the state providing our constituents with fire protection and emergency response, water, wastewater treatment, electricity, solid waste management, healthcare, transportation, resource and agricultural conservation, parks, libraries, cemeteries, air quality management, and more, we hope to see special districts’ assistance preserved and passed in the final FY22 state budget.”
Representatives Jim Costa, Mark DeSaulnier, Ro Khanna, Barbara Lee, Alan Lowenthal, Jimmy Panetta, Jackie Speier, and Mike Thompson joined Carbajal in support of the special districts relief fund.
CSDA thanks these and all federal representatives for their ongoing support of special districts' access to much-needed pandemic assistance. Contact Cole Karr, for more information at colek@csda.net.