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Lincoln County adopts transportation funding policy, authorizes reimbursement agreements
Summary
The Board of Commissioners approved a revised transportation funding policy (max county participation 40%) and a companion reimbursement ordinance enabling the county to reimburse developers after project completion; the policy refines scoring metrics and targets projects from an excise-tax-funded pool.
Lincoln County commissioners voted to adopt a revised county transportation funding policy and a companion reimbursement-agreement ordinance at their February 2026 meeting. The changes set the county's maximum participation at 40% of a project's overall cost and clarify how funding sources and scoring criteria are counted.
County staff member Andrew told the board the policy removes a subjective "community support" metric, merges "population centers" with "public places," doubles the weight for economic-development scoring where appropriate, and requests aligning crash-related metrics with the Department of Transportation categories. "We modified it to the maximum scoring, or maximum county participation being 40% of the overall cost for this transportation…
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