Much of the push for higher taxes and fees for road projects in the state was to provide matching funds for federal dollars.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard says they are working on swapping dollars with local governments…

 

Daugaard says federal transportation dollars don’t work well for counties and cities…

 

The current short term federal highway funding bill expires in a few weeks. Daugaard says the stop gap federal highway funding has also been a problem planning for road projects…

 

The legislature approved a package of about eighty five million dollars in increased taxes and fees for road projects in the 2015 session.