SACRAMENTO – California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, is asking the state auditor to audit both the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) because both agencies need to be held accountable for how they spend taxpayers’ money including toll money.
Recent toll hikes are the latest example of the public’s confusion about how MTC and BATA spends their money.
SACRAMENTO – California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), who serves as the chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, has introduced Senate Bill 30 prohibiting the resale, donation, or transfer of decommissioned diesel locomotives for continued use.
SACRAMENTO - California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) today joined CalFire firefighters, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire and a bipartisan group of State Senators to support new legislation to make state firefighting stronger year round instead of seasonally with “The Fight for Firefighters Act.” This comes after the devastating Los Angeles fire and the acknowledgment that fire season is now year round not seasonal. Senator Cortese is a co-author of the bill.
SILICON VALLEY - In an area where the wealth gap between the haves and the have nots could not be more pronounced, more than 50 local, community organizations came together today on a rainy day and provided everything from information on housing, food and mental health to dental & health screenings, flu shots, bike repairs and showers to hundreds of unhoused people attending Senator Cortese’s annual Unhoused Health Fair.
SACRAMENTO – At a critical time as the state of California scrambles to build more privately financed affordable housing, and eventually rebuild from the devastation caused by fires in Southern California, state Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) today introduced Senate Bill 61 – the Private Works of Improvement Contracts: Retention – that would expedite payment of money due to construction contract