City of Palmdale Receives Measure R Sales Tax Funding

Wednesday March 03, 2010

Ara Najarian, Chair of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors, joined Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich and Metro's CEO Art Leahy in presenting Measure R sales tax money to the Palmdale City Council for use in improving transportation systems in the City of Palmdale. Palmdale Mayor James C. Ledford, Jr., accepted the Measure R check during the Palmdale City Council meeting.

Shown presenting and accepting the Measure R check before the Palmdale City Council is Antonovich, Palmdale Mayor James C. Ledford, Jr., Leahy and Najarian.

The Measure R payment to the City of Palmdale totals $531,008 collected through February, 2010. The City of Palmdale is projected to receive $80.8 million over the 30 year span of Measure R.

Measure R, a new half-cent sales tax approved by the voters in November 2008 is expected to generate approximately $40 billion over the next 30 years. As part of the measure, local cities within Los Angeles County receive 15% of the funding to use for major street resurfacing, pothole repair, improving traffic congestion, bikeways, pedestrian improvements signal synchronization and transit improvements.