{"id":333,"date":"2015-10-29T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/29\/rural-road-funding-2-reasons-funding-remains-inequitable-4-ways-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T22:22:00","slug":"rural-road-funding-2-reasons-funding-remains-inequitable-4-ways-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/rural-road-funding-2-reasons-funding-remains-inequitable-4-ways-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Road Funding. 2 Reasons Funding Remains Inequitable. 4 Ways to Fix it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oil producing counties are a state revenue source.\u00a0<\/strong>Eagle Ford Shale counties alone contribute\u00a0$323 million of severance tax receipts a year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unfair revenue exchange with oil counties.\u00a0<\/strong>In the same year that DeWitt county contributed $57.5 Million in severence taxes, it\u00a0received $112,000 from the comptroller for money generated from gasoline tax remittances and overweight axle fees\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Now the oil producing counties are left with dangerous roads.\u00a0<\/strong>This was the catalyst for a county transportation infrastructure fund grant program\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Time for the state to stop getting a &#8220;free ride.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Oil counties want the Texas Legislature to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establish requirements and timelines on how repairs should be made<\/li>\n<li>Establish requirements for how the money is distributed \u2014 including the loose wording that only requires a county have increased energy production<\/li>\n<li>Must be an ongoing program for transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>Must have greater trickle down to the oil producing counties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eaglefordtexas.com\/news\/id\/159498\/texas-counties-call-for-oil-gas-tax-distribution-reform\/\">Victoria Advocate |\u00a0Texas counties call for oil, gas tax distribution reform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oil producing counties are a state revenue source.\u00a0<\/strong>Eagle Ford Shale counties alone contribute\u00a0$323 million of severance tax receipts a year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unfair revenue exchange with oil counties.\u00a0<\/strong>In the same year that DeWitt county contributed $57.5 Million in severence taxes, it\u00a0received $112,000 from the comptroller for money generated from gasoline tax remittances and overweight axle fees\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Now the oil producing counties are left with dangerous roads.\u00a0<\/strong>This was the catalyst for a&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local-government","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}