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State Aid Highways Selectmen's Meeting January 7, 1974 Somerville are in this region and we have been planning the radial roads; Arlington is also related in this one, and we have a relationship in transportation (Red Line Extension), highway improvements (Route 2), the new. Vocational School, common Bicentennial planning, and many other mutual. efforts, such as human services, E.E.A., etc. Option .l is the "least worst". proposal. . The Board and Mr. O'Connell agreed. A letter is to be written -to Secretary Cowin that the Board unanimously prefers Option. 1 in the proposed sub -district group. Chairman Kenney read a notice from DPW Commissioner Campbell stating that the Governor had signed two bills comprising a $350 million comprehensive program of state aid to local communities for the improvement and operation of transportation services. It includes assistance for local highway, public transportation, and airport activities, and is the first comprehensive transportation measure in the history of the Commonwealth. For those municipalities outside the MBTA area, there is available a $25 million direct appropriation for assistance'in the operation and maintenance of local streets. Eligible items include highway related administrative expenses, salaries for local engineering, public works and police personnel en- gaged in traffic_operations, highway maintenance expenditures andihigh- way construction expenditures. This money is intended to reimburse municipalities for the cost of highway actiyities carried out between December 5, 1973 and December 31, 1974. You will receive a check ; before January 31, 1974 for your community's share, which should then be deposited in a separate account. It can be used by your munici- pality to reduce the burden of the local property tax on taxpayers through reimbursements for highway -related expenditures. In addition, all non-MBTA communities have been allocated a share of a $15 million highway bond authorization to be used for the construction, reconstruction, and resurfacing of local streets. Eligible items include sidewalk construction, landscaping, tree planting, roadside drainage, bridge, traffic control devices, bicycle paths, intersection construction, land takings, and related profes- sional services. In the case of these funds, a check for your community's share will be forwarded to you by January 31, 1974. You must deposit the check in a separate account and it may be appro-;�-+ priated by your municipality for highway projects in the above categories, which have received our Departmental approval. You should note that the legislature has specifically prohibited the utilization of these funds for the construction or resurfacing of off-street park- ing areas. Chairman Kenney: Our share is $207,984. Will this be shown on the Cherry Sheet as a Mr. O'Connell; Chairman Kenney some funding for road credit? Yes. to Mr. McSweeney: Do I understand there would be services in addition to this? 1 1