Frostman, Hansen Call on DOT to Explain Missing Road Funds |
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News - Articles for State & Local |
Written by State Senate Democrats |
Monday, 10 September 2018 20:01 |
http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/construction-traffic-i35-s5.jpg STURGEON BAY - State Senators Caleb Frostman (D-Sturgeon Bay) and Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) are calling on Governor Walker’s Department of Transportation (DOT) to explain where the $46 million in federal transportation dollars granted for local governments have been sent by the agency. Federal Service Transportation Block Grant funds are requested by municipalities and then passed from the Federal Highway Administration through the DOT to the requesting local governments to fix vital roads in their communities. Somewhere along the line that $46 million of federal money has gone missing without an explanation from Governor Walker or the DOT causing concern for local communities struggling to repair aging and damaged roads.
“Due to their inability to find a long-term funding solution for Wisconsin’s aging transportation infrastructure and the diversion of millions of dollars to Foxconn in southeast Wisconsin, the Governor and Legislative Republicans have created a crisis for local roads,” said Hansen.
“Governor Walker’s and the Republicans have had total control of state government since 2011. All that time their playbook has been to cut funding to local communities and schools and forcing them to make up for the lost state funding. The results are terrible roads, dangerous bridges and schools so badly underfunded that local residents have voted to raise their own property taxes just to keep the lights on,” Hansen said. “It’s gotten so bad that now they can’t even tell us what they did with $46 million.” |
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