FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, June 24, 2021

CONTACT:
MayorPress@sandiego.gov

SAN DIEGO Maintaining his focus on repairing and upgrading San Diegos long-neglected infrastructure, Mayor Todd Gloria today unveiled his plans to fund critical transportation, stormwater, parks and recreation, City facilities, and technology projects in the upcoming fiscal year that begins on July 1.

Under the Mayors plan, the City will use $145 million in debt proceeds to help finance a lengthy list of projects.

We are taking action to address the decades-long neglect of our infrastructure now instead of kicking the can down a pothole-riddled road, Mayor Gloria said. This $145 million investment in key infrastructure projects across our city will fix roads, upgrade city facilities, and improve quality of life for residents.

The funding breaks down into five categories:

• Mobility and transportation: $59.4 million
• Stormwater: $49.6 million
• Parks and recreation: $20.7 million
• City facilities: $14.7 million
• Information technology: $550,000

Nearly half of the funding for transportation upgrades $28.4 million will go to Mayor Glorias Sexy Streets initiative, which prioritizes road repairs in historically underserved communities. This funding supplements the roughly $10 million for road repair that Mayor Gloria included in his unanimously approved budget. The Mayor will ask members of the City Council to provide lists this summer of priority street and road projects to be considered for Sexy Streets funding.

Additional projects slated to receive funding include:

• $11 million to reconstruct Gold Coast Drive and Parkdale Avenue in Mira Mesa
• $4 million to realign Alvarado Road in the College Area
• $2.7 million to repair the roof of the federal building in Balboa Park
• $2.1 million to improve public access to the coast at Bermuda Avenue in Ocean Beach
• $12.6 million to help renovate the Botanical Building in Balboa Park
• $1.7 million to plan the new Chollas Triangle Park in El Cerrito
• $1.6 million for Hickman Fields Athletic Area in Kearny Mesa
• $940,000 for libraries in Ocean Beach and San Carlos
• $250,000 for the fire station in Skyline Hills
• $40,000 for Wightman Street Neighborhood Park in City Heights
• $10.3 million to install or upgrade streetlights
• $4.8 million to repair sidewalks
• $280,000 to improve guard rails
• $30.4 million to improve drainage
• $18.7 million for watershed management

The financing plan will be presented to the Active Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in a special meeting today at 2 p.m. before going to the full City Council for consideration.

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