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ITD asks JFAC for $60M supplemental, larger spending authority to finish multi‑year projects
Summary
At a Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee hearing, Idaho Transportation Department officials asked for a $60 million supplemental and changes to spending rules so the department can complete multi‑year highway projects and meet contractor payments amid large contracted workloads.
The Idaho Transportation Department asked the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Wednesday for a $60 million supplemental and expanded spending authority to cover payments on multi‑year construction projects underway across the state.
ITD told the committee that a combination of large, multi‑year contracts and the Legislature's current re‑appropriation cap has left the agency unable to guarantee spending authority to complete contractor payments. "We came dangerously close to this last fiscal year in FY '24 of running out of spending authority because these large multi year projects were paying out," Director Scott Stokes told members, adding that ITD "actually deferred or delayed some payments to some contractors. It wasn't huge. It was 1 to 2,000,000 dollars."
The department's budget analyst, Brooke Dupree of the Legislative Services Office, said the supplemental request includes $10 million from the…
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