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Committee advances $402,000 highway CHIPS increase amid administration review and planning timing concerns
Summary
The committee advanced a highway budget adjustment to reflect an unanticipated $402,000 increase in CHIPS funding that would allow about 2.5 additional miles of paving, while county administration requested time to review how the extra funding should affect borrowing and the department’s planned program.
Tompkins County highway staff told the Facilities and Infrastructure Committee on June 26 that the county received an unanticipated $402,000 increase in CHIPS funding and proposed a budget adjustment to accept and spend the money for additional paving work.
Jeff, highway department staff, said the added $402,000 "would enable us to basically raise both our expenditure and our revenue" and would allow the department to "pave another 2 and a half miles of road this year." He said without the…
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