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Commissioners warned road funding is limited as staff outlines regional priorities and signal maintenance costs
Summary
Public works presented limited local road operating funds (about $1.5M) covering hundreds of miles and said regional transportation revenues support slurry/chip-seal and reconstruction; staff proposed increases for signal maintenance and listed unfunded reconstruction priorities including Pinet Road and Moller Parkway.
Public Works Director Phil Richter and road staff briefed the board on road budgets and a raft of capital priorities on March 24, emphasizing constrained local funding and the need to target limited pavement-preservation dollars.
Richter said the valley-focused road operating fund has roughly $1.5 million to stretch across more than 200 miles the county maintains. “We budget somewhere around $700 to $750,000…
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