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BACKGROUND: The Infrastructure Congress
is a half-day program designed to educate Orange County's civic
leaders and citizens about new ways to pay for the county's infrastructure.
Speakers, including Assemblyman Keith S. Richman (Granada Hills)
and Orange County Supervisor Bill Campell, will offer funding alternatives,
including a possible amendment to the California Constitution.
The meeting is a follow-up to the Infrastructure Report Card, released
October 2002, which gave Orange County's infrastructure an average
grade of C and also graded: aviation (C+); parks, recreation and
environment (C); schools (D+); solid waste (B); transportation (C);
urban runoff/flood control (D); water (B); and wastewater (C+).
More information about the Report Card can be found at www.eng.uci.edu/ocreportcard.
The Infrastructure Congress is organized by the UCI Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Civil and Environmental
Affiliates, an engineering support group. Other participants include
the Orange County and Los Angeles chapters of the American Society
for Civil Engineers and the American Public Works Association, the
UCI Urban Water Research Center and the California Rebuild America
Coalition.
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