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D-O-T road use taxes increase, but so do costs

April 9, 2002 By admin

The Iowa Department of Transportation says its budget for building roads is staying flat so far this year. Spokesperson Dena Gray-Fisher says D-0-T officials gave the State Transportation Commission an update at the Commission’s meeting today in Bettendorf. The road-use taxes received in the first nine months of the fiscal year are 10-million dollars ahead of last year, but she says the bids on projects and costs are up 10-million, so they’re breaking even. The governor is asking legislators to take 60-million out of road use taxes to balance the budget, but Gray-Fisher says, if it’s approved, the move wouldn’t impact the current year.That plan would take the money out of the next fiscal year. Gray-Fisher says the D-O-T would have to take another look at its five-year plan if the governor and legislature decide to make the move. Legislators thus far are rejecting the governor’s call for shifting the road-use money.

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