For weeks, key officials, their staffs and stakeholders have noodled around with bringing the Legislature back to Sacramento for a post-election session on financing much-needed upgrades to highways, local streets and transit systems.
However, with just days remaining, officially, in the 2015-16 biennial session, and no acceptable compromise in sight, the prospect is fading fast.
Gov. Jerry Brown called a special session on transportation (which also expires Nov. 30) to highlight the issue and proposed a package of fees and taxes.
Several alternative versions have since surfaced as advocates tried, so far in vain, to assemble two-thirds legislative votes that new taxes require.
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