So MA chapter 90 money is going to get the roads all fixed:
Looking at Templeton chapter 90 apportionment over the past five years.
Fiscal Year 2015 - state DOT allots 300 million, signed by the governor.
Templeton receives $509,797.00
fiscal years 2016 through 2021 - state DOT allots 200 million signed by the governor.
Templeton receives the following:
fiscal year 2016 - $338,351.00
fiscal year 2017 - $335,950.00
fiscal year 2018 - $333,245.00
fiscal year 2019 - $333,029.00
fiscal year 2020 - $399,634.00
fiscal year 2021 - $334,835.00
2015 was governor Baker first term and one of first moves he made and set us up for failure regarding road money (chapter 90) ever since; costs go up, but he holds at 200 million for 6 years in a row.
The money we received from Chapter90 goes down, but the cost of everything goes up ! We need to stop making the Highway Department the scapegoat, every time we have financial problems.
ReplyDeletePage 30 , table 4 shows a nice illustration. Since we paid money for this review maybe we should understand what it means.
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In 2018 we had a 16 mmillion dollar backlog.
Based on this summary we now have a 21 million dollar backlog. Great news right?