{"id":233489,"date":"2016-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/guest-editorial-budget-proposes-road-neighborhood-improvements-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:00:00","slug":"guest-editorial-budget-proposes-road-neighborhood-improvements-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/guest-editorial-budget-proposes-road-neighborhood-improvements-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest editorial: Budget proposes road, neighborhood improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Scott Sherman<\/p>\n<p>The Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) budget recently proposed by Mayor Kevin Faulconer is a balanced budget that will keep San Diego going on the right track.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The budget would increase funding for roads 189 percent since 2014. That\u2019s over 200 miles of roads that would be completed if this budget is approved by the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the budget would fund an additional $6.4 million in new and replaced sidewalks and streetlights.<\/p>\n<p>It would also commit $5.8 million in increased spending for storm channel and drain cleanings. This is great news since District 7 is particularly susceptible to flooding during heavy rainstorms.<\/p>\n<p>The FY17 budget would also increase hours at a number of recreation centers and fund $2.5 million in park improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic improvements in the Mission Valley area is also included. $1.4 million would be invested in traffic signal optimization to ease congestion in the area as well as major improvements on the Friars Road and state Route 163 intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Other District 7 specific improvements would include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replacing synthetic turf at Pershing Middle School Joint Use Field in San Carlos<\/li>\n<li>Repaving the San Carlos Recreation Center and Allied Gardens Library parking lots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not only will this budget improve city services, it is also fiscally responsible. The proposed budget would allocate $20.8 million to fund the Pension Payment Stabilization Fund and $7.6 million to fully fund General Fund reserves at 14.75 percent. These measures would ensure that the city would have the resources needed during an economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Scott Sherman represents District 7 on the San Diego City Council.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Scott Sherman The Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17) budget recently proposed by Mayor Kevin Faulconer is a balanced budget that will keep San Diego going on the right track.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":233104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11557","_seopress_titles_title":"Guest editorial: Budget proposes road, neighborhood improvements","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11557,11551,11593,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mission-valley-news","category-news","category-no-images","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}