The state is taking the county’s road repair money

The unincorporated Coastside will have even less money for road repairs in the coming year. 

Proposition 42 requires that gasoline sales tax revenues be used annually for state and local transportation purposes. But the state has used a declaration of emergency to take about $2.4 million from San Mateo County since 2003, according to the Examiner.

San Mateo County supervisors approved the street maintenance cuts earlier this month, reducing by 10 percent the number of secondary streets maintained at the "good" level, as measured by the Government Accounting Standards Board. Under the reduced maintenance plan, the county will be required to maintain 65 percent of the county’s 160 miles of secondary roads at a "good" level, as compared with 75 percent previously.