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Commissioners direct staff to advertise roads-funding referendum after wide discussion on resurfacing, bonding and sales-tax options
Summary
After a detailed briefing on resurfacing backlogs, impact-fee constraints and upcoming debt for major widenings, the board asked staff to prepare and advertise a public-hearing package for a roads-funding referendum. Commissioners discussed short-term millage-shift options and longer-term local sales-tax measures and emphasized voter education.
Hernando County commissioners directed staff on April 14 to prepare public hearing materials and advertise a roads-funding referendum after an extended staff briefing that described the county’s resurfacing backlog, limits of gas-tax funding and the debt service likely to arise from major widening projects.
Administrator Rogers and Public Works Director Scott Herring warned the board that the county’s gas-tax-based resurfacing program (about $5.9 million a year) would not sustain a…
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