Advocacy
Advocacy
SACOG’s Legislative team tracks bills moving through the State Legislature and Congress each year, and presents SACOG board members with analysis of key legislation of interest to SACOG. The Board of Directors adopts state and federal advocacy principles that determine the issues SACOG will follow.
SACOG 2021 Advocacy Principles
Transportation
- Ensure robust transportation funding that meets the needs of
our growing Sacramento region by pursuing new and reformed
transportation funding methods and sources to implement the
Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy
(MTP/SCS) and invest in and protect the transportation
infrastructure needed to implement the region’s economic
prosperity plan.
- Ensure federal and state funding sources are stable, predictable, flexible, and adequate to operate, maintain, rehabilitate, and expand the
Sacramento Region Greenhouse Gas Reduction Pilot Program
Green Means Go is a multi-year pilot
program to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the six-county
Sacramento region by accelerating infill development, reducing
vehicle trips, and electrifying remaining trips. Local
jurisdictions will designate Green Zones, in which they must take
specific actions to promote infill development and reduce
existing barriers and provide new transportation options. State
funding is needed to help implement these actions and further
incentivize local development and housing production.
CA Legislature Passes Senate Bill 1
On April 6, the Legislature approved the
Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (SB 1) by a two-third
vote of both houses.
SACOG CEO James Corless hosted a webinar with Celia McAdam Executive Director of the Placer County Transportation Planning Agency and SACOG staff on what SB 1 means for the Sacramento Region. The webinar can be viewed here.