Napa’s flood control district could lose out on millions in state reimbursement funding for Napa River projects
Napa County has joined an effort to raise an early alarm about flood control agencies potentially losing out on millions of dollars if the state doesn’t take action to extend a deadline. Specifically, a loss of access to reimbursement funds would happen if the funding from Proposition 1E — a $4.09 billion bond measure for flood control projects passed by California voters in 2006 — is allowed to expire by its current deadline of July 1, 2023. The funds come by way of a state program, managed by the California Department of Water Resources, that pays back agencies their costs for federally-required flood control projects.
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