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KDOT requests $2.6 billion for FY2025, plans $1.2 billion in IKE bonds; FY2026 request falls to $1.7 billion
Summary
The Kansas Department of Transportation told the House committee its FY2025 budget request totals $2.6 billion — a 10 percent increase from the prior approved level — driven by a surge in highway and bridge contract lettings, while the FY2026 request falls to $1.7 billion as those lettings and bond proceeds shift across years.
Kyle Anderson, presenting the Kansas Department of Transportation's (KDOT) budget analysis, told the House committee the agency's revised FY2025 request was $2,600,000,000 — $233,300,000 (10 percent) above the prior approved level — and that the FY2026 request is $1,700,000,000, a $647,800,000 (27.8 percent) reduction from FY2025.
Anderson said the FY2025 increase largely reflected a large number of highway and bridge projects beginning construction in that year. "The large sums of contractual lettings in the KDOT budget are in part due to the fact that when a project is set to start, it may be a multiyear project, but those projects are allotted in full in the budget the first year," he told the committee.
He flagged a $179,400,000 increase in contracts for highway and bridge projects (noting this is driven by IKE program lettings), a $9,900,000 request for innovative-technology financial assistance to local communities, and line items adding regular-maintenance…
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