{"id":4217,"date":"2016-05-26T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4217"},"modified":"2016-05-26T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T20:43:38","slug":"district-capital-projects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=4217","title":{"rendered":"District Capital Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there is not yet a capital budget for this year, some previously funded projects are moving forward in Southeast.\u00a0 It is critical to our economy that we maintain and improve our transportation infrastructure.\u00a0 I am pleased to see that there will be some industrial work occurring in Southeast this construction season.\u00a0 Here is a list of projects that have received funding in previous years from the federal government, state government, or voter approved state bond sources moving to bid or awarded and turning dirt in 2016:<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a><\/p>\n

When revenues drop, the Legislature often reduces the size of the capital budget.\u00a0 Last year, the state unrestricted general fund capital budget was $118 million, far lower than previous years and the smallest capital budget in 16 years.\u00a0 Significant parts of these state funds were used to match federal funds.\u00a0 Capital budget spending will remain nearly non-existent until revenues rebound for the state.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the district had the following projects in the proposed capital budget SB 138.\u00a0 While that bill died at the end of the session, I expect a similar bill to be introduced by the Governor.<\/p>\n

\"2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While there is not yet a capital budget for this year, some previously funded projects are moving forward in Southeast.\u00a0 It is critical to our economy that we maintain and improve our transportation infrastructure.\u00a0 I am pleased to see that there will be some industrial work occurring in Southeast this construction season.\u00a0 Here is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4226,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}