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More than $46 million will go toward road repairs across six Sacramento-area counties after regional transportation officials shifted more than $9 million from other transportation projects to address growing demand for road maintenance funding.
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The Sacramento Area Council of Governments board last month approved $46.2 million in federal funding for road preservation projects in Sacramento, Placer, Yuba, Yolo, Sutter and El Dorado counties. The money will pay for pavement maintenance and resurfacing on key roads, including evacuation and transit routes.
SACOG awarded the most money to projects in Sacramento County, with $22.9 million going toward eight projects. El Dorado County received the least, with $1.8 million for a project on Missouri Flat Road.
To fund the projects, the board also decided to shift more than $9 million from its System Performance program, which supports other transportation improvements, including managed lanes, electric vehicle charging stations and transportation hubs.
The decision, said SACOG Executive Director James Corless, reflected the region’s pressing need for road repairs.
“I think that’s exactly why you saw the debate that you saw at our board, and the board decided to move the needle even more in the direction of funding road repair because everybody’s feeling it,” Corless said.
Road repair program funds 24 Sacramento-area projects
Twenty-four projects will receive funding through SACOG’s new System Preservation program, which was created for the current federal funding cycle.
Previously, road repairs and projects such as bike trails competed for money from the same pool, which led to some confusion, Corless said. SACOG separated preservation and transportation improvement projects into two programs, although both continue to draw from the same federal funding source.
“One of the top complaints that they get from their constituents is just how bad the roads are in the region,” he said. “They wanted something just exclusively dedicated to road repair.”
Marysville’s Historic Business District Pavement Preservation project received the highest evaluation score. The city requested $1.06 million to maintain downtown streets through preventive maintenance and pavement repairs, SACOG principal planner David Pape said.
“It’s a really practical investment in the infrastructure that the community really depends on,” he said, adding that it will help maintain access to jobs, businesses and other services. “It’s allowing the city to address roadway needs without undertaking an extensive reconstruction effort.”
“That’s really kind of at the heart of what this program’s about: catching things early,” Pape added.
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Other projects selected for funding included pavement repairs on Folsom Boulevard in Rancho Cordova and resurfacing on Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights.
These are important because Greenback Lane “carries a huge volume of traffic,” Corless said, and road maintenance on Folsom Boulevard is an important part of trying to support business and revitalization along the corridor.
SACOG shifts more funding to road repairs
SACOG received about $110.8 million through the federal Surface Transportation Block Grant Program to distribute between its System Preservation and System Performance programs this funding cycle.
In October 2025, the board decided to allocate 35% of the money to road preservation and 65% to other transportation improvements. However, in September, the board voted 18-10 to increase the preservation program’s share to 45%.
The decision allowed four additional projects to receive funding:
- Franklin Boulevard Complete Street Phase 3 in the city of Sacramento.
- Missouri Flat Road Preservation near Placerville in El Dorado County.
- Yuba Street Pavement Preservation in Marysville.
- Madison Avenue resurfacing between Interstate 80 and Auburn Boulevard in Sacramento County’s Old Foothill Farms neighborhood.
Board members debated the shift for about an hour because it reduced funding available for the System Performance program, which initially received 42 applications seeking $195.7 million. The number of applications has since dropped to 40, Pape said.
Demand also exceeded available road repair funding. SACOG received 34 applications seeking $86.3 million through the System Preservation program.
“That connects to the fact that we don’t have enough money that comes through from the federal level,” Corless said, noting SACOG’s support for bipartisan federal legislation aimed at addressing transportation infrastructure needs.
“While the board did go with 35% a year ago as sort of an initial policy decision, we wanted to allow them to come back and revisit the higher allocation,” Corless said. “Even though there was a lot of debate… the board put two thumbs on the scale for a state of good repair.”
The road preservation grants will be officially awarded in February 2027. Recommendations for the System Performance program and a third program, Next Generation Solutions and Clean Air, are expected by the end of November, with board approval scheduled for early December.
This story was originally published October 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM with the headline “SACOG awards $46 million for road repairs across Sacramento region. Here’s where.”
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