The state's county commissioners deal with decreasing revenues and increasing costs.
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BY ANN KELLEY
Published: October 3, 2010
As the state's county commissioners face rough economic times, Oklahomans may feel the bumps along the way.
The state gasoline tax, the primary funding source for county roads and bridges, is down this year. The commissioners expect to divvy up less than they had last year in proceeds from their portion of the fuel tax, an amount that has dropped significantly since the price of gasoline started escalating, said Gayle Ward, executive director of the County Commissioners Association of Oklahoma.
Oklahomans are driving less and coming up with alternative travel methods to save money at the gas pump. The allocation for county roads and bridges isn't based on the percentage of fuel proceeds but on the amount sold, so county stewards have less money to repair the thousands of miles of county roads connecting our state, Ward said... FULL ARTICLE
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Sun, October 3, 2010
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