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In this Research & Commentary, Samantha Fillmore examines a House Bill in Massachusetts that would allow for cities and towns to opt into a local excise tax on fuel.
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering levying additional gas taxes on the local level with House Bill 3039. If passed, the bill would allow any city or town to impose a local excise tax on the sale of fuel and special fuels to retail dealers. This would be in addition to the state’s current 24-cent-per-gallon tax on fuel.
According to HB 3039, any city or town that imposes this local excise tax shall first establish a Municipal Fuel Excise Transportation and Stormwater Fund prior to levying the additional excise tax. This fund would be divided into three spending areas. The first being for the purposes of maintenance, upkeep, and construction of roads, bridges, sidewalks, and public parking areas, or roadside drainage. The second
Manhattan Public Works offers insight into Phase 1 of Kimball Avenue Reconstruction
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Falling within the city’s annual Asphalt Street Maintenance Program, Public Works Project Coordinator Ken Hays explained that this project serves to replace pavement, upgrade the storm sewers, and provide pedestrian improvements needed along the Kimball / Candlewood corridor.
Hays says the city has identified this corridor as an ideal site for a trail, as west of this location the Hudson trail runs north to south as part of Manhattan’s larger Linear Trail system. The city desires that the proposed 8-feet-wide multi-use trails on both sides of the street, run along Kimball back towards the Kansas State campus to help with pedestrian access through the passageway.
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