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Recording: Local Assistance Day, August 2025

Posted: 8/21/2025

The Caltrans Division of Local Assistance (DLA) and California LTAP (CALTAP) hosted this August 2025 Edition of "Local Assistance Day", a quarterly statewide webinar designed to update and inform our RTPA, MPO, local agency, and tribal partners, and all other interested transportation parties.

LAD presentations focus on topics rooted in information sharing, local project delivery policies, processes, and procedures, and the peer-sharing of agency best practices.

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Local Assistance Day webinars are free to attend and are encouraged for anyone who works with Caltrans local assistance processes for local and tribal agencies. To share suggestions for topics you'd like covered in an upcoming episode, or if you have any questions regarding local assistance in California, contact DLA.

Watch the August Recording

Caltrans Division of Local Assistance

DLA oversees over $1B in annual funding that California's 600+ cities, counties, and regional agencies use to improve their transportation infrastructure and provide transportation services.

This represents roughly 1,200 new projects authorized annually through the Local Assistance Program, of which ~700 are construction related.

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