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Ways and Means advances ODOT budget tied to uncertain transportation package
Summary
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means advanced a $6.1 billion budget for the Oregon Department of Transportation that assumes passage of a separate transportation funding bill.
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means advanced a $6.1 billion budget for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), but lawmakers repeatedly warned the plan depends on passage of a separate transportation funding bill.
The subcommittee recommended a total-funds budget of $6,100,000,000 and 4,803 positions for ODOT, a 12.4% decrease from the previous biennium. The recommendation assumes a transportation funding measure will pass; without it, the budget would omit $371,600,000 in other funds and would not restore 884 positions that the proposal otherwise would reinstate.
The budget proposal reduces other funds by $46,000,000 and eliminates 121 operations and maintenance positions, of which the committee said 94% are currently vacant.…
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