“The way California currently spends its infrastructure dollars lacks a long-term vision and a systematic process for prioritizing projects. The administration and the Legislature have not adequately coordinated departments’ activities and their dozens of programs. With the current fiscal crisis only deepening, California’s pattern of borrowing money through general obligation bonds and repaying debt through the General Fund to pay for infrastructure investments will force further spending cuts in healthcare, social services, education and public safety programs.  To deliver on its golden promise, California must think harder and spend smarter on the roads, bridges, levees, schools, prisons and canals it builds. And it must take better care of its assets so that they continue to serve the Californians of tomorrow.” 

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