Village of Spencer Selected to Receive Funds From the DOT's Local Roads Improvement Program

Friday, May 1st, 2026 -- 11:01 AM

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), announced more than $135 million in state funding has been awarded to local communities to assist in improving deteriorating county highways, town roads, and city and village streets.

This round of funding will help complete 302 local road improvement projects over the next four years, located in nearly all 72 counties across the state. These projects were selected to receive funding through WisDOT’s Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP), which received an historic over $100 million supplemental funding investment in the 2025-27 Biennial Budget.

Projects selected for funding were based on recommendations from county, municipal, and town officials who determine which roads have the greatest need for improvement in their communities.

This includes projects critical to local downtowns and projects to repair county roads between the state’s rural and urban communities. Of the over 300 local roads and highways funded, the projects were broken into three categories: Counties (Highways), Towns (Roads), and Cities/Villages (Municipal Streets). One local village that was selected is the Village of Spencer receiving $502,000 to repair E. Wendell St.

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