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House Transportation Committee finalizes letter to Appropriations, urges long-term fixes to funding shortfall
Summary
The House Transportation Committee reviewed and approved a response letter to appropriations emphasizing long-term structural funding shortfalls, the use of federal indirect costs that reduce project matches, and potential revenue options including a mileage-based user fee and reallocation of purchase-and-use tax revenues.
The House Transportation Committee on Feb. 20 finalized a response letter to the House Appropriations Committee that frames Vermont's transportation funding gap as a structural, multi-year problem and urges collaborative work on revenue options.
Speaker 1 opened the meeting by saying the committee was preparing a response letter due that day and that counsel would review final edits. "Vermont continues to experience significant transportation funding challenges," Speaker 1 said, and proposed adding the word "structural" to the draft to emphasize long-term pressure on the transportation fund.
The draft letter, as discussed, notes that the Agency of Transportation can fund only about one-third of municipal grant requests in a typical year and that the state and local…
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