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Washington County moves road-fund shortfall to full court after heavy maintenance year
Summary
County roads director told the finance quorum court the department spent above budget to stabilize failing pavement; justices voted to send an ordinance to the full court to appropriate road-fund reserves to cover escalated costs including leased equipment and outsourced slurry work.
Washington County’s finance quorum court on Thursday voted to send an ordinance to the full court that would appropriate additional money from the county’s road fund reserves to cover cost escalations from this year’s large road maintenance program.
The ordinance would cover work the county already performed this year and a series of unexpected costs, County Road Director Jeff Crowder told the court. “We did everything that was in our power to make sure that we try to stay within the money that was allotted,” Crowder said, adding that seasonal windows and fluctuating costs made final projections difficult.
The measure would move money from the unappropriated reserves of the road fund rather than from County General. Crowder said the county used a pavement condition index (PCI) to…
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