Highway superintendent warns reduced Community Crossings match will buy less pavement
Highway staff defended a large increase in the highway budget tied to program structure changes and warned that state match changes for Community Crossings (now 80/20) will reduce the miles the county can resurface with the same county share; commissioners agreed to keep higher road funding in the draft while reviewing cuts elsewhere.
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Kim Grady, Dearborn County highway superintendent, walked commissioners through Location 51 and related line-item moves, explaining that overtime was shifted into salary lines and that the department is trying to preserve paving programs amid reduced state matching. On the state program changes, Grady and other staff said the Community Crossings formula moved from an older mix to an 80/20 split and that the county’s awarded amount this cycle is smaller, reducing the purchasing power for pavement projects.
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