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AMATS reports functional-classification comments and warns of STIP funding-match shortfall

5440990 · July 16, 2025
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Summary

AMATS staff briefed the committee on policy‑committee comments to DOT’s functional‑classification update, the federal STIP amendment approval and a state match shortfall that could delay programmed projects; AMATS seeks legal review of an operating‑agreement letter from DOT.

AMATS Executive Director Aaron Jongen Ehlen told the committee that AMATS’ policy committee approved a set of comments on the state DOT’s federally required functional‑classification update and that many recommended changes were downgrades to lower functional classes based on current traffic counts. "A lot of the changes that were approved by the policy committee are downgrading the roads from a higher functional class to a lower functional class," he said.

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