State funds help with improving local roads
Approximately $149 million in state funding, is now available for 342 local improvement projects to be completed across Wisconsin, over the next five years.
“So far, we have improved more than 1,700 miles of roads and nearly 1,300 bridges throughout our state, and today, we’re making another major investment in the improvement of our local roads,” said Gov. Tony Evers. “Towns, villages, cities and counties across Wisconsin, worked closely with the WisDOT to plan these projects and we are confident they will make a real difference for Wisconsinites in communities, (MSID) – 40 funded projects ($13,940,962.50); Municipal Street Improvement Supplemental (MSIS) – 22 funded projects ($25,317,299.61); County Highway Improvement Discretionary (CHID) – 52 funded projects ($19,827,160.77); and County Highway Improvement Supplemental (CHIS) – 74 funded projects ($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 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 need to exceed $100,000.
All LRIP-D and LRIP-S municipal (MSID and MSIS), The funding comes from six components of the state-funded Local Roads Improvement Program (LRIP), administered by the WisDOT: Town Road Improvement Discretionary (TRID) – 81 funded projects ($25,421,269.65); Town Road Improvement Supplemental (TRIS) – 73 funded projects ($39,054,185.66); Municipal Street Improvement Discretionary across the state.” 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.
