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Cities, MnDOT and lawmakers debate shifting local cost participation for trunk-highway projects
Summary
House File 192, which would shift local cost participation on state highway projects to MnDOT, drew wide testimony from small and metro cities, county and MnDOT officials and was laid over for further work.
House File 192, carried by Representative John Burkel, drew testimony from mayors, city engineers and MnDOT officials on the proposal to remove or reduce local cost-participation requirements for trunk-highway projects and have the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) cover those costs.
Representative Burkel described the bill’s intent as a response to what he and multiple municipal testifiers called an unsustainable burden on local governments when MnDOT projects require local utility relocations, sidewalk/trail work, or other cost participation. The committee laid the bill over for further work; no final action was taken.
Small and large cities described concrete fiscal impacts. Dan Fabian, mayor of Roseau, told the committee his city’s local share estimates had fluctuated from roughly $400,000 down to $185,000 after a MnDOT pilot, then rose again to…
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