Major initiatives in the budget include advancing capital improvement projects, including allocation of $32 million to continue construction of the OC Streetcar in Santa Ana and Garden Grove, California.
The FY2021 budget is down more than $98 million in total expenditurescompared to OCTA’s FY2020 budgetdue to sharp declines in both county and state sales tax funding in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, authority officials said in a press release.