Press Release: Gov. Evers, WisDOT Announce More Than $106 Million in Quarterly Aid Payments for Local Roads and Communities

State of Wisconsin sent this bulletin at 04/11/2024 07:00 AM CDT
Office of Governor Tony Evers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 11, 2024
Contact: GovPress@wisconsin.gov 
 
Gov. Evers, WisDOT Announce More Than $106 Million in Quarterly Aid Payments for Local Roads and Communities
 
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced that municipalities across the state received more than $106 million in the second quarterly payments for 2024 for General Transportation, Connecting Highway, and Expressway Policing Aids. Gov. Evers has made fixing Wisconsin’s roads a top priority, and the Evers Administration has improved 7,424 miles of road and 1,780 bridges since 2019, including over 900 miles of road and over 200 bridges last year alone.

“Wisconsinites need and deserve safer, more reliable roads statewide, and my administration has been working hard to fix the darn roads and improve infrastructure in every corner of our state,” said Gov. Evers. “Through these investments, we are ensuring that local governments can pay for much-needed road construction, maintenance, and traffic operations and that Wisconsin’s students, families, workers, and products can get from point A to point B safely and efficiently.”

“Efficient and resilient transportation infrastructure starts in our counties, cities, villages, and towns,” said WisDOT Secretary Craig Thompson. “Thank you to all the municipal leaders in Wisconsin for their cooperative work to improve our roads and bridges.”

For calendar year 2024, local governments will receive more than $536 million in General Transportation Aids financial assistance to support transportation-related projects, a two percent increase over calendar year 2023 allocations provided by the 2023-25 biennial budget signed by Gov. Evers. The investments in the 2023-25 state budget resulted in the largest amount of funding for the program in the state’s history, and total funding for all local programs makes up almost one-third of the state transportation budget.

The second quarter payments, made on April 1, totaled $106,258,969.19 and included:
  • General Transportation Aids - $101,744,169.70 to local units of government;
  • Connecting Highway Aids - $4,258,824.49 to 116 eligible municipalities;
  • Expressway Policing Aids - $255,975.00 to Milwaukee County.

General Transportation Aids help cover the costs of constructing, maintaining, and operating roads and streets under local jurisdiction. Connecting Highway Aids reimburse municipalities for maintenance and traffic control of certain state highways within municipalities. Expressway Policing Aids help the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department with the costs of patrolling expressways within the county.

Quarterly payments for cities, villages, and towns are sent on the first Monday in January, April, July, and October. County payments are made in three installments, with 25 percent of the total annual payment on the first Monday in January; 50 percent on the first Monday in July; and 25 percent on the first Monday in October.

A complete list of the second quarter aid payments is available here.

 
An online version of this release is available here.
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