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State senator outlines budget, transportation standoff and local grant opportunities
Summary
Senator Starr told the Dundee council the Legislature passed a balanced budget, described a breakdown in bipartisan transportation negotiations that led to a special-session revenue bill, and said organizers aim to gather 78,116 signatures to put the bill to a public vote; he also encouraged Dundee to seek state grant support for local infrastructure.
Senator Starr this evening briefed the Dundee City Council on the recent legislative and special sessions and flagged several items likely to affect local infrastructure planning.
“The legislature has to pass a balanced budget, and the legislature did that,” Starr said of the completed session. He described bipartisan work on transportation funding that collapsed late in negotiations and said the…
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