WHAT HAPPENED: Another soft week overall in legislative activity for cities and towns, and
下周可能也是如此 with a number of majority party lawmakers heading to a conference in Utah.
WHAT IT MEANS: The Senate isn't planning any voting sessions in the new week, and the House isn't either beyond Tuesday. (The conference, of the American 立法 Exchange Council, begins Wednesday.)
ON TAP:关注排行榜. State health officials are seeing quickly elevating coronavirus numbers and hoping for a downtrend with better interest in vaccinations as the Delta variant makes its way around. “North Carolina's key metrics show rapidly increasing levels of virus spread since the emergence of the more infectious Delta variant,他说。
state's latest weekly status report. “Areas with low vaccination rates have seen the largest increases in 新型冠状病毒肺炎。 cases, 住院治疗, 和死亡." Forty North Carolina counties saw their situations worsen in the past week.
THE SKINNY: It's otherwise a light week, but with news to know. Read on for reports on state transportation project funding, the Census, and redistricting.
N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Prioritization Workgroup met this week to consider plans for the next round of transportation project scores. The Workgroup represents a stakeholder process that makes regular refinements to the data-driven
战略机动性公式 that helps guide the prioritization of new transportation projects, a process outlined in the state's nationally recognized
Strategic Transportation Investments law. The Workgroup, with robust local-government representation (including both the League and the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition), received a sobering update from NCDOT staff on the overall status of existing projects already in the approved pipeline. 简单地说，就是电流
科技及创新计划(STIP) for such projects lacks funding.
Transportation appropriations and the revenues that support those state and federal appropriations have fallen far short of what is needed. Add to that outdated and poorly developed project estimates, ballooning construction costs and fast-growing costs of needed right-of-way, we now know the current STIP is over-programmed by approximately $5 billion for committed projects between 2024 and 2033 (
见表). Given the lack of funding and rising costs, the stakeholder group agreed that moving forward with a new round of project scoring would be ill advised. The Workgroup's recommendations will be presented to the N.C. Board of Transportation in August and is expected to concur with the Workgroup. Contact your metropolitan or rural planning organizations for details on how this might affect projects in your community.
底线, and as many of our members can say from experience, we need more funding from a modernized and forward-looking federal and state transportation financing system (which has been stagnant for decades) if we are to meet the future transportation needs of our communities, 经济与环境.
The Census Bureau will soon release local data from the 2020 Census.
在八月. 11 online event, beginning at 10:30 a.m.N。.C. Office of State Budget and Management will clarify what to expect in this data release and discuss tools and resources for using the data.
If your city or town has to redistrict because of the census results, this event may be of interest.
The event also features Kelly Tornow, General Counsel of the State Board of Elections. Ms. Tornow will provide an explanation of the legal considerations and authority for redistricting, as well as recent legislation impacting local government redistricting.
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