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City of Fresno introduces tax plan to cover expected lost revenue once Measure C ends next year 51%
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7/23/2026, 10:45:44 PM
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The Fresno City Council will be asked at their next meeting to place a general sales tax proposal before voters on the November 2026 general election ballot to help cover a projected shortfall of tens of millions of dollars that will likely come after Measure C expires next summer, with no other replacement legislation in sight.
Thursday’s news conference comes after the Fresno County Board of Supervisors ordered a study of Measure C’s presumptive successor — known as Better Roads Safe Streets — at their meeting last week.
The study, which was approved through a 3-2 vote split among the governing body’s ideological lines , will very likely not be completed before the deadline to place a measure on this year’s general election ballot.
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said at the news conference the supervisors “effectively killed any opportunity” for the measure to be voted on this year.
County residents will likely have to wait until 2028 to vote on the Better Roads initiative.
The city’s proposal, introduced as the Fresno Public Safety Infrastructure Restoration and Essential Services Act, will implement a sales tax that will slide in to replace what residents already pay for as a part of Measure C.
City leaders stressed that this means residents will not be voting on a tax increase.
The act is being sponsored by the mayor, Fresno Council President Nelson Esparza and Councilmember Mike Karbassi.
“I would rather not be standing here,” Esparza said after introducing the tax plan.
“Measure C has served this county well over the decades, and I would rather have had a continuation of that, but that’s not where we find ourselves, and it’s incumbent upon us to shield Fresno families from the devastating surface impacts that await if we do nothing.”
This is a developing story.
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