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Sacramento Safe Streets and Affordable Transit Measure of 2026

Presented By: Sam Rice and Steve Cohn from SafeSacPac

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About SafeSacPAC

  • SafeSacPAC (Sacramentans for Safe Streets and Affordable Transit) is a political action committee formed in December 2025 to represent a broad-based coalition of transportation, business, labor, environmental, and community leaders to fund and manage the Safe Sac Measure campaign.

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�Introduction����

  • The Sacramento Safe Streets and Affordable Transit Measure of 2026 (Safer Sac Streets Measure) is a citizens’ initiative to place a half-cent transportation sales tax on the November 2026 ballot in the City of Sacramento.
  • Revenue would be split 50/50 between roads and transit improvements within the City, with a small set-aside for transit-oriented housing infrastructure development (TOD) and independent audits and oversight.
  • As a citizens’ initiative, Safer Sac Streets would require only a simple majority to pass.

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Safer Sac Streets Funding Allocations

Active Transportation

Public Transportation

Transit Oriented Housing Infrastructure

Administration/Oversight

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Safer Sac Streets Measure Specifics

Public Transit Investments

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  • Improve frequency and affordability of transit options
  • State of good repair for current system
  • Safety, security, cleanliness and reliability
  • Regional Rail matching funds

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City Streets Investments

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  • Street repair and maintenance
  • Safety improvements
  • Active transportation improvements
  • Economic development and climate innovation

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Applying Lessons Learned

This Measure takes a different approach to previous efforts for transportation funding in 2022 and 2018.

    • Citywide vs Countywide
    • Following the polling
    • Community based organizations leading the way

After extensive public outreach and consultation with local experts and elected officials, we feel confident that a City transportation sales transactions and use tax measure is quite likely to pass

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Strong Polling Backs Approach

  • Three separate citywide polls conducted by FM3 and Hart Research between August 2025 and February 2026 show the measure concept has high favorability within the City of Sacramento:

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58%-60% Favorability

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One Big Catch

  • A citizens’ measure requires gathering 31,000 valid city voter signatures, at a cost of $400,000 or more.
  • These signatures must be gathered and certified by June 15th to qualify for the November 2026 ballot. This means raising those funds as early as possible in 2026.
  • Once campaign funds are secured and signature gathering starts, the campaign itself should be relatively easy to fund and win.

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SMART Business Leadership

  • We have assembled a strong local team of experienced and respected political, fundraising, media/public outreach, polling, and elections consultants.
  • We have ~$150,000 in commitments to the PAC and anticipate raising several hundred thousand dollars more from major rail and bus manufacturers and from local transportation, labor, business, environmental and community leaders who understand the importance of this infrastructure funding.
  • We are also consulting with Accelerator for America, the national non-profit arm of the transit and infrastructure industry, which has successfully partnered with a number of cities to pass transit measures, most recently in Charlotte, NC in Nov 2025.

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Get Involved

Visit our NEW campaign website at:

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WWW.SAFERSACSTREETS.COM

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Sponsor a Community Fundraiser

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Questions?

Sam Rice

916-600-2122

Samhrice@gmail.com

Steve Cohn

916-616-7003

Steve@stevecohn.org

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Contributions

Please make checks payable to:

SafeSacPAC ID#1485783

Mail checks to:

River City Business Services 5445 Madison Avenue

Sac, CA 95841

Contribute online:

https://www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/SafeSacPAC/