Sixteen Highway Measures Offered In the Legislature
The Iowa state highway commission asks the legislature to enact sixteen bills. Proposals cover railroad crossing jurisdiction and funding, eliminating dangerous crossings, expanding land for gravel and borrow pits, and allowing primary road fund use for bonds and overdrafts. Also call for higher bond interest, general obligation status, semiannual interest, and changes to paving by day labor and city extensions.
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County road fund pay delay cited in primary work reform
County officials urge changes to the flotmen provision of the primary road fund to allow prompt payment for day labor and materials. The proposal would raise surety requirements and increase bonded indebtedness to three percent of assessed property value to enable bridges culverts and grading under southern counties financial strain. Continued on page seven.
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