2024 Regular Session - Day 44 - HJR 92, Rep. Ken Upchurch

thank you Mr Speaker house joint resolution 92 is amended by house committee sub one is what we have uh discussed earlier with uh the contingency uh the way that has worked in the past is uh it's been referred to as discretionary contingency uh the way that has operated in the past cities and counties can uh request uh that a road in their local District or in their County or or city uh receive what's being called contingency or discretionary money and that that request is sent up to the uh transportation cabinet the commissioner's office and then from there it goes out to uh the Local District Highway offices for grading and they score them on a score a scale of 1 to 10 10 being the worst condition one being the best and so from there it goes back to the cabinet and then what has happened in the past is those roads as funding became available uh those County Roads or city roads would be a released for funding and we we've all heard the press releases uh of roads in our counties and districts you know discretionary money for whatever Road and so what we uh have worked on is a different way of doing uh that program and what we have done is we've put in the past we've only allowed uh budgeted about $ 1010 million into that program in this budget we have appropriated 20 uh 25 year or $25 million in each year of the bium uh 20 million of it goes toward City and County Roads the other five million would go to the governor's or the cabinets uh contingency account and what we have done with the $20 million is defined in a road plan for cities and counties uh those roads and we we got a list of the what what we uh asked for from the cabinet was a list of the eights nines and tens which have typically been uh the roads that that get funded tens being the worst nine1 nines and eights being the next next level down and uh with $20 million we were able to fund approximately uh $20 million there's just a little bit uh left over uh of the all of the tens which has been determined by the cabinet to be uh the most uh in dire need of resurfacing and then most all of the nines so which leaves the eights and so this list is continually growing we understand that and so we'll be back in here next year uh with another resolution that will get uh roads that are being turned in by cities and counties uh this year and there may there may be some roads that are turned in tomorrow even today or even next week that would qualify as a 10 nine or an eight uh and as we move through uh through the process some of those roads could potentially be included uh but for now we have the list that we were provided was uh sufficient enough to get this process started and we we have included all of the tens and uh most of the nines and then they're they're listed and once this resolution is passed those counties will be able to uh draw down on that money and get their uh their County Roads uh city streets uh resurfaced uh and then we have where we have included okay uh we're including $5 million that was discussed for the governor or the cabinet uh for emerging situations so I'll be happy to answer any questions about house joint resolution 92 otherwise I'll would move for passage as amended by house committee sub one