Governor Evers Announces Funding for Road Improvement Program
Friday, June 3rd, 2022 -- 12:01 PM
Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, announced approximately $149 million in state funding for 342 local improvement projects to be completed across Wisconsin over the next five years.
The funding comes from six components of the state-funded Local Roads Improvement Program, administered by WisDOT:
- Town Road Improvement Discretionary (TRID)—81 funded projects, total funding: $25,421,269.65;
- Town Road Improvement Supplemental (TRIS)—73 funded projects, total funding: $39,054,185.66;
- Municipal Street Improvement Discretionary (MSID)—40 funded projects, total funding: $13,940,962.50;
- Municipal Street Improvement Supplemental (MSIS)—22 funded projects, total funding: $25,317,299.61;
- County Highway Improvement Discretionary (CHID)—52 funded projects, total funding: $19,827,160.77;
- And County Highway Improvement Supplemental (CHIS)—74 funded projects, total funding: $25,558,921.43.
These LRIP programs are state funded under the 2021-23 biennial budget and are in addition to federal funding made available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Local system projects approved to use BIL funding will be announced separately.
County and municipal projects with $250,000 or more in total eligible costs could apply for up to 50 percent state funding under the Discretionary component (LRIP-D) and up to 90 percent under the Supplemental component (LRIP-S). For town projects, eligible costs needed to exceed $100,000.
A list of the projects can be found on the WisDOT website here. All LRIP-D and LRIP-S municipal (MSID and MSIS) and town (TRID and TRIS) projects are selected based upon recommendations by the statewide discretionary improvement committees, who are nominated by the Wisconsin Towns Association and the League of Wisconsin Municipalities.
The county (CHID and CHIS) projects are determined by the Wisconsin County Highway Association district committees.
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