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Kansas Rep. Alan Rivas urges county to press KDOT for roads, pushes property-tax and grant options
Summary
State Rep. Alan Rivas visited the Atchison County Commission on Dec. 16 to press KDOT and his legislative colleagues for greater attention to local roads and bridges, to describe a new grant-technical-assistance program, and to preview bills addressing property-tax exemptions and mail-in election rules.
Representative Alan Rivas, a member of the Kansas House, visited the Atchison County Commission on Tuesday to press local leaders to press KDOT for more attention to county roads and bridges and to discuss several state-level policy proposals he said could help small counties.
Rivas told the commission the county needs to participate in KDOT's local consult process, a regional project-ranking meeting held every two years, and asked local elected officials to attend the next consult so engineers and regional representatives hear from those who use and maintain local roads. "We've been kind of the red-headed stepchild up…
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