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SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - The Director of the Transportation Development Association is leading the effort to make certain voters are aware of the referendum on the November ballot on using the state’s transportation fund for other purposes.
Craig Thompson, on Sheboygan’s Morning News Monday morning, said if approved, the legislature will be mandated to amend the constitution to keep lawmakers from raiding the transportation fund. Thompson said voters in Sheboygan County already weighed-in in 2010, with about 70 percent of voters saying they would support the amendment. Recent polling they have conducted favors a majority of state residents favor the referendum.
Thompson said amendment is needed for the state to plan and fund for road repair and construction. He does realize that more funding is needed to sustain state roads, but it would be best first to ensure the money currently going into these funds are used for that purpose.
Thompson said between 2003 and 2011, Wisconsin shifted 1.4-billion dollars from the transportation fund to the general fund.
