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Washington County reviews MSTIP investments and launches funding-strategy work amid budget pressure
Summary
County staff updated the Washington County Coordinating Committee on the Major Streets Transportation Improvement Program (MSTIP), outlined a $250 million 3f allocation and a $150 million bonding authorization, and said the county must consider new revenue options as general-fund pressures grow.
Washington County transportation officials gave committee members a detailed update on the Major Streets Transportation Improvement Program (MSTIP), the county’s principal local transportation capital program, and described steps being taken to find new, stable funding for future projects.
The county’s Land Use & Transportation director, Steven Roberts, told the Washington County Coordinating Committee that MSTIP has directed “a little over a billion dollars” of local money into transportation projects since 1986 and that current MSTIP 3f includes about $250,000,000 in allocations for projects and programs. “This really is a — about a 40, almost 40 year old program, that has been a real partnership between the cities and Washington County,” Roberts said.
County staff explained the program’s history, including how Measure 50 and earlier tax-limiting measures reshaped local property-tax authority and rolled MSTIP levy amounts into the county’s base property tax rate. Roberts said the county…
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