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JFAC approves trimmed Idaho Transportation Department budget, large transfers to dedicated funds
Summary
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a reduced Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) budget package that includes reappropriations, highway project spending authority and a $275 million transfer from the general fund to transportation dedicated funds for strategic initiatives and local distributions.
BOISE — The Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee approved a pared-down budget package for the Idaho Transportation Department that reduces overall appropriation from prior requests but authorizes large transfers and reappropriation authority for construction and right‑of‑way projects.
The committee voted to approve multiple ITD motions that together provided reappropriation authority, dedicated‑fund projects and one‑time spending for aeronautics grants, capital facilities and highway construction. Senator Brooke Dupree, a legislative budget analyst, told the committee the package includes a governor initiative for $10 million from the state aeronautics fund for grants and equipment and reappropriation requests for capital facilities and aeronautics programs.
Why it matters: The motions set spending authority for large construction and right‑of‑way projects and moved one year of general‑fund transfers into transportation…
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