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Transportation panel pivots to funding questions: local-option tax pilot, JFO review and inventories
Summary
Committee members said Ways and Means has stepped back from a proposed 2% local-option tax, prompting a shift toward seeking town-highway funding through other local-option splits and a pilot; the committee scheduled Joint Fiscal Office (JFO) testimony to estimate revenues from 12 towns.
During the March 12 House Transportation meeting, committee members and staff discussed funding mechanisms for town-highway needs and a near-term pivot away from pursuing a 2% local-option tax. The chair said Ways and Means and the administration appeared unlikely to support the 2% option and signaled a strategy to pursue funds from other local-option tax splits and a pilot program tied to towns that recently adopted the option.
Committee staff said they are…
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