Measure Q is leveraging $5.7 million in unclaimed federal funds to resurface West Yosemite Avenue from Walnut Avenue to the city limits near the railroad tracks serving as the Manteca-Lathrop city limits.

Passage of the three-quarter cent, 20-year sales tax has generated funding that is allowing the City of Manteca to come up with the required 11.47 percent local match to secure the money.

Mayor Gary Singh noted the city worked with the San Joaquin Council of Government to secure the federal funds after other jurisdictions in the county passed on them.

“Measure Q made it possible for Manteca to secure the money,” Singh said.

As such, it dovetails into a promise city leaders made during town hall meetings leading up to the November 2024 election regarding the Measure Q ballot measure to use the sales tax receipts to pursue funds that required a local match.

The federal funding not only moved up the city’s timetable to work on the Yosemite segment from Airport Way to the railroad tracks by a number of years, but it also allowed adding the segment between Airport Way and Walnut Avenue.

That means by the end of 2027, Manteca will have upgraded Yosemite Avenue pavement from Cottage Avenue/Spreckels Avenue all the way to the western city limits since 2018.

The city is currently working on the segment of Yosemite Avenue from Main Street to Walnut Avenue.

The project includes replacing aging and failing water lines, ADA ramps at intersection, bike lanes, new pavement, and striping.

That would will be finished this year.

Singh said the city is hoping to find funds that other jurisdictions aren’t financially positioned to obtain to make improvements to aging segments of Union Road.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com