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Tazewell County engineer outlines road and bridge priorities, funding limits
Summary
Dan Parr, Tazewell County engineer, briefed county officials on the highway department's priorities including bridge inspections under IDOT rules, use of a PACER pavement-rating program, a five-year project list, funding sources and equipment upgrades; no formal votes were taken.
Dan Parr, county engineer for the Tazewell County Highway Department, told county officials at a meeting (date not specified) that the department’s top priority is preserving roads and bridges while managing limited funding and workforce resources.
Parr said the department uses a program called PACER to evaluate and rate road segments, and that bridges receive sufficiency ratings through the Illinois Department of Transportation inspection process. "Our goal here at the highway department is save roads. That's number 1," Parr said, describing how those ratings feed into a five-year program and project priorities.
The nut of Parr’s presentation was funding and how the department allocates scarce dollars. He described multiple local levy funds and state program interactions: county highway and township bridge funds (property-tax levies), county and township motor fuel taxes, and a locally levied matching tax used to provide the nonfederal share on projects. Parr clarified…
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