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Town meeting keeps Surfside-area transportation project funding after debate over reallocating prior year road funds
Summary
Town Meeting rejected an amendment to reallocate $1,894,016 from a prior Sidewalk/Multiplath/Cobblestone appropriation to broader annual road maintenance; the planning and public works teams pressed to reappropriate older authorizations to award a construction contract for Surfside transportation improvements (Lovers Lane, Orkawa, Monahansett).
Town Meeting on May 20 voted against an amendment that would have removed $1,894,016 from prior-authorized capital funds and held them for general annual road maintenance; the main motion to reappropriate prior-year funds to allow immediate award of a construction contract for the Surfside Area Transportation Improvements project was adopted.
The contested line item was money originally authorized for prior sidewalk, bike path and cobblestone projects that, the Department of Public Works said, was not fully spent and could be applied to the multi-road…
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