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Supervisors tell legislature to stop taking road funds
APACHE COUNTY – With the state sweeping millions of dollars from the Highway User Revenue Fund (HURF) and Vehicle License Taxes (VLT) for this year, combined with similar sweeps in previous years, and all the other money swept from county and municipal governments, rural communities are saying they won’t be able to maintain roads let alone do any new projects.
Saying enough is enough, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution at the Nov, 1 meeting that spells out how they feel. The supervisors’ resolution “….urges the Arizona Legislature to discontinue sweeps of HURF distributions to Apache County and other White Mountain communities and to restore HURF funding to pre-sweep levels within a reasonable period of time.” (Source: White Mountain Independent)