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Limestone County commissioners debate using $4 million surplus for district road projects or a sinking fund for grant matches
Summary
Commissioners spent the bulk of the Dec. 15 work session debating whether to transfer a proposed $4 million surplus into district road accounts for immediate paving or to create a sinking/matching fund to secure future state and federal dollars; staff warned about contract timing and grant-match risks, including a Pryor Field grant that may leave the county liable if federal commitments fail.
Commissioners in Limestone County spent a large portion of their Dec. 15 work session discussing how to use an unanticipated budget surplus and how that choice could affect road projects, grant opportunities and the county’s ability to respond quickly to offers from state or federal partners.
One commissioner proposed transferring $4,000,000 of last year’s surplus into district accounts to accelerate road projects, saying the allocation could be distributed by district and carried over for work if not immediately spent. "We could take 4,000,000 of that surplus we had last year and…
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