Our Track Record

California Alliance for Jobs has played a critical role in helping to pass more than $35 billion in state and local transportation funding measures. Other Alliance achievements include:

Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
An $11 billion bond measure to improve state and regional water infrastructure.

Proposition 22, The Local Taxpayer, Public Safety, and Transportation Protection Act(2010).Prop. 22provides additional protections to ensure that transportation and local government tax revenuesare not raided by the state legislature andprohibits transportation bond debt service from being paid from the State Highway Account.

Gas Tax Swap(2010).
The Gas Tax Swap, a legislation package, repealed the sales tax on gasoline and replaced it with a gas excise tax to assure that the taxes paid at the pump are deposited into an account dedicated for transportation improvements.

Proposition 1A Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act. (2008) Prop 1A is a $9.9 billion voter approved bond measure to help fund California’s high-speed rail system.
Propositions 1A-1E (2006) The largest infrastructure bond package in California history, propositions 1A-1E created $37 billion in infrastructure bonds and dedicated $1.5 billion a year in gasoline sales tax revenue to transportation.

Transportation Sales Tax (2004) The Alliance helps four counties win local transportation sales tax measures–Sacramento, Contra Costa, Marin and San Mateo–racking up more than $12 billion in transportation funding.

Regional Measure 2 (2004) Approved by Bay Area voters in 2004, Regional Measure 2 (RM 2) was created to reduce congestion in crowded bridge corridors. The measure increased tolls on state-owned Bay Area bridges by $1 to pay for a series of transportation infrastructure projects.

Measure N (2004) The Alliance led a successful campaign to approve an advisory measure to expand the Los Vaqueros reservoir in Contra Costa County.

Proposition 42 (2002) Proposition 42 dedicated state sales taxes on gasoline to transportation projects.

Measure BB (2002). Measure BB aimed to seismically retrofit BART facilities serving Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and the City and County of San Francisco.

In 2002, the Alliance was the largest supporter of San Francisco’s $1.3 billion bond measure to revamp its Hetch-Hetchy water system.