The De Luz CSD Board of Directors has been making efforts to gain State and County support to enable the De Luz CSD to obtain Fuel Tax funds to maintain De Luz roads. This process has taken years due to many governmental obstacles that have stood in the way. These are the funds that everyone pays when purchasing gasoline and is collected for road maintenance purposes. Because De Luz roads are maintained by a CSD and not a city or county, the State does not share these maintenance dollars with De Luz. This is a unique situation where the County of Riverside created the public roads in De Luz, but California law does not allow sharing road maintenance with a CSD. Senator Seyarto sponsored SB 1173 to correct this oversight in the law but it was determined that the County of Riverside could amend the language in the 1978 documents which would make De Luz eligible for these funds. The estimated annual total of Fuel Tax funds is $ 750,000 million per year.

At a meeting of the state mandated Local Agency Formation Commission, it was unanimously agreed to a request by the De Luz CSD that the Board of Supervisors take the necessary steps to make De Luz eligible for Fuel Tax funds. Elected County Supervisors have been unable to secure the suppoet of their County Administrtion Officer appointed to  cooperate in making Fuel Tax for De Luz a reality. The De Luz CSD Board of Directors and staff is continuing to work with Senator Seyarto on a remedy to this situation.