Safe Routes to School

The Fresno County Voters passed an extension to the Measure C program in November 2006, continuing a half cent sales tax for transportation purposes. Much of the planning and implementation of the Measure C Program is done by Fresno COG staff, while the agency responsible for overseeing the implementation of Measure C is the Fresno County Transportation Authority (FCTA).

Measure C Safe Routes to School Program

Application Deadline:  October 14, 2025

This one-time funding as a result of a Measure C amendment $6 million has been made available for fourteen of Fresno Council of Governments local jurisdictions for safety infrastructure projects withing a one-half mile radius to prioritize bicycle and pedestrian-friendly projects within one-half mile of a school sites in rural Fresno County. Each project may be awarded $1.5 million.

Measure C Safe Routes to School (SRTS) allocation aims to support transportation projects serving primary and secondary students in accessing public school facilities to:

• Enhance the safety of children walking or biking to school;
• Prioritize schools with significant safety concerns or risk to children bicycling or walking to school based on crash data, traffic analysis, or traffic behavior around primary and secondary schools; and
• Support disadvantaged and low-income communities with fewer transportation safety options to ensure all children have access to safe routes.

SRTS 2025 Application
2025 SRTS Guidelines

Safe Routes to School Program Background

Beginning in 2023, the SRTS Subcommittee met to discuss and identify investment needs to support educational institutions throughout the County, specifically in priority communities. The SRTS Subcommittee is a Policy Board appointed committee which is comprised of a council member from each of the following cities:

City of Clovis

City of Mendota

City of Parlier

City of Kingsburg

City of Selma

City of Huron

City of Selma

In November 2024, Fresno COG’s Policy Board approved a transfer of $6 million in Measure C funding from the Senior Scrip, carpool/vanpool and agricultural vanpool programs into a new SRTS program for one-time funding of eligible projects on a formula, pro-rata basis.  In December 2024, the Fresno County Transportation Authority countered Fresno COG’s proposal with a recommendation to keep available funding among rural jurisdictions and the County of Fresno only, but to make the program competitive, requiring a call for projects.

Policy Board members discussed and conceptually approved FCTA’s counterproposal at Fresno COG’s January 2025 meeting. The 2006 Measure C Expenditure Plan Amendment No. 9 was approved on June 18, 2025 by the FCTA Board.

Please contact Paul Herman at pherman@fresnocog.org or Simran Jhutti at jhutti@fresnocog.org for any questions regarding this program.