COUNTYWIDE : Nestande Named to Transportation Post
Former Orange County Supervisor Bruce Nestande has been named vice chairman of the California Transportation Commission, which oversees statewide highway and transit funding priorities.
The panel’s action in selecting Nestande earlier this week in San Diego means he will become chairman in 1991, when California will have a new governor.
Nestande, 51, recently chaired the ill-fated campaign on behalf of Measure M, the half-cent sales tax increase for transportation projects that was defeated by Orange County voters Nov. 7.
“I think the most significant issue for the next couple of years will be the fact that the highway system is in the most serious financial crisis it has ever been in,” Nestande said Friday.
Nestande said by June, 1990, more than $800 million worth of previously approved highway projects will go unbuilt because of insufficient funds.
The result, he said, is that more counties such as Orange must become so-called self-help counties by raising their own transportation money in order to attract matching state and federal grants.
Nestande is vice president of Costa Mesa-based Arnel Development Co. He resigned from the Board of Supervisors in January, 1987.
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