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An unexpected loss of $113,000 in secondary road construction funds in 1986-87 will force cancellation of one bridge widening project and reduce the scope of other work included in the county’s six-year road plan, according to resident engineer Donald Askew.
“We were anticipating the same as last year — $325,000,” JVlr. Askew told the supervisors at Monday’s board meeting. Instead, Rappahannock will receive just $212,000 for secondary road construction in the coming fiscal year.
“I don’t know why they cut us. It looks like we have more traffic on the roads, more money in the coffers,” said Mr. Askew, adding that all the residencies in the Culpeper District had budgets cut by that same amount.
The change in funding formula adopted by the General Assembly two years ago has sent a greater proportion of the state’s highway dollars to urban areas, the resident engineer noted. “But they were cut, too.”
He predicted that the reduction in construction money will allow an increase in maintenance funds, needed to cover higher costs of equipment and higher salaries. (Maintenance funds are allocated separately by the state from construction funds; maintenance expenditures do not require approval by
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