{"id":762,"date":"2017-05-09T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/05\/09\/lege-trend-anatomy-of-a-transportation-funding-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-05-09T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T22:22:00","slug":"lege-trend-anatomy-of-a-transportation-funding-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-anatomy-of-a-transportation-funding-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend. Anatomy of a Transportation Funding Deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Colorado<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2 competing transportation funding mechanisms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/sb17-267\">Senate Bill 267<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>creates \u00a020-year bond program,\u00a0$1.8 billion towards critical infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/sb17-303\">Senate Bill 303<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>uses existing taxes and a $3.5 billion bond program to pay for roads and highways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Compromise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>require that at least 25%of the bond funds\u00a0go toward projects in rural Colorado, with county populations of 50,000 or less<\/li>\n<li>add in\u00a0$30 million allocated to rural districts over three years.<\/li>\n<li>School funding increase is funded by aising marijuana taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gazette.com\/compromise-bill-to-boost-colorado-transportation-funding-appears-headed-for-finish-line\/article\/1602672\">Colorado Springs Gazette |\u00a0Compromise bill to boost Colorado transportation funding appears headed for finish line<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Colorado<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2 competing transportation funding mechanisms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/sb17-267\">Senate Bill 267<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>creates \u00a020-year bond program,\u00a0$1.8 billion towards critical infrastructure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/sb17-303\">Senate Bill 303<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>uses existing taxes and a $3.5 billion bond program to pay for roads and highways<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Compromise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>require that at least 25%of the bond funds\u00a0go toward projects in rural Colorado, with county populations of 50,000 or less<\/li>\n<li>add in\u00a0$30 million allocated to rural districts over three years.<\/li>\n<li>School funding increase\u2026<\/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":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}