Measure C Mayhem! Fresno Roads Tax Turns Ugly

Measure C Mayhem! Fresno Roads Tax Turns Ugly

FRESNO, CA (KMJ) The vote is more than a year away, but the debate over Measure C is already hotter than a Fresno highway in July. The Fresno County roads tax expires in 2027. Voters will cast ballots in November of 2026 after a Measure C reboot failed to pass in 2022. Now, the in-fighting about who decides where the tax dollars will go has gotten personal. Local businessman Brooke Ashjian was supposedly booted off the Measure C steering committ…

Measure C panel reinstates ousted Fresno member amid pressure

The countywide transportation board reinstated one of the City of Fresno’s three representatives to its sales tax advisory board following pressure from city leaders.  Brooke Ashjian was reinstated to the Measure C steering committee on Tuesday according to Fresno Council of Governments Chair Alma Beltran.  Robert Phipps, executive director of Fresno COG, told Ashjian over email on Tuesday evening that he had been reinstated. “It is our fervent …

Fresno Co. backpedals, restores Ashjian to Measure C drafting panel

Fresno County’s regional planning agency restored former Fresno Unified trustee, and local paver, Brooke Ashjian to the citizen panel developing a renewal of Fresno County’s multi-billion-dollar transportation tax on Tuesday. Ashjian, an appointee of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, was removed suddenly last week after a number of media appearances criticizing a decision to award nearly one-third of seats on the panel to social justice activists. The ba…

With Backing From Dyer, Ashjian Reinstated to Measure C Panel Ashjian Close To Measure C Return

Updating a story from earlier today, officials reinstated Brooke Ashjian to a Measure C advisory committee, less than a week after his removal for “derogatory” comments about the process to renew the Fresno County transportation sales tax. “I shared with (Parlier Mayor Alma Beltran) that I wanted Brooke Ashjian either reinstated or the notice rescinded. And to my knowledge, that either has occurred or will be occurring.” — Fresno Mayor Jerry Dy…