State Budget Offers Funding Increases to Highway Repairs

As the 2013-14 state budgets is finalized, Senator James Seward announced Monday that local counties will receive a substantial increase in funding to support highway improvements.

The consolidated local street and highway improvement program was established by the legislature in 1981. The funds go directly to local governments to support repairs to the highways, bridges, and roads that they operate and maintain.

Funding in the nine counties represented by Senator Seward will increase on average by 23.6 percent.