Sentences with phrase «transportation budget shortfall»

Wisconsin state Assembly Republicans released the framework of a plan Thursday to plug a transportation budget shortfall that would raise taxes and fees by $ 300 million and cut other taxes by at least that much.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Wisconsin state Assembly Republicans released the framework of a plan Thursday to plug a transportation budget shortfall that would raise taxes and fees by $ 300 million and cut other taxes by at least that much.

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Jennifer Shilling said in an interview with The Associated Press that it's not up to Democrats to come up with a plan to plug a projected $ 1 billion transportation budget shortfall.

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Proponents of the $ 50 transportation fee had hoped it would help offset a $ 13 million shortfall in the district's $ 882 million budget.

In light of what district leaders initially projected as an $ 18 million budget shortfall, administrators planned cuts to transportation budgets and central office spending this fall.

The bulk of the aid increase proposed for next year would be split in three ways: $ 408 million to reimburse schools for costs such as transportation, construction and BOCES services; $ 266 million for Foundation Aid, the main source of funding for general school operations; and $ 189 million to partially restore the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA), a practice of diverting promised funding from schools that began six years ago to help the state deal with a budget shortfall at that time.