Region XII Council of Governments has provided a COVID-19 funding update. The first is for recreational trails programs through the Iowa Transportation Commission. They have approved a one-time, $5 million allocation to help offset COVID-related reductions in the State Recreational Trails (SRT) program. Funding can be used for property acquisition, construction of new trails, maintenance, resurfacing and restoration of existing trails, development and rehabilitation of trailside and trailhead facilities and trail linkages. Applicants must be a federal or state agency or local government. Details on the application process are included below. The impact to Road Use Tax Funds have been significantly less than was originally feared at the onset of the pandemic, but there is still an estimated decrease of $50 million. The Iowa Transportation Commission has approved the COVID-19 Relief Fund allocation for the distribution of funds appropriated in the December 2020 CARES Act. The previousl
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Iowa cities and counties to get relief funds for road work
The Iowa Transportation Commission has approved a plan to spend nearly $122 million in federal pandemic relief funds that were approved in December.
The Department of Transportation’s Stuart Anderson says the money is targeted at road repairs and related issues.
“Five million of that will be set aside for a one-time application-based program for trails programs across the state,” Anderson says. “And that’s because this funding that was allocated to Iowa was intended to cover lost state revenue due to COVID-19. And trail funding was impacted by COVID-19.”
Radio Iowa4 weeks agoLast Updated: March 11, 2021
Des Moines, IA – The Iowa Transportation Commission has approved a plan to spend nearly $122 million dollars in federal pandemic relief funds approved in December. The D-O-T’s Stuart Anderson says the money is targeted at road repairs and related issues.
The loss in funding came from a drop in traffic on the roadways and taxes paid for fuel. Anderson says they will use the same formula for distributing the regular road-use tax funds to dole out the pandemic relief funds. There are some 945 cities that will get 20 percent of that funding.