"Recission" means that money that the state thought it had now needs to be given back to the federal government.
Wisconsin gets money from the feds for transportation funding - everything from transit aids to harbors to road building to bike/pedestrian projects. Often each of these categories has its own little pot and name, but all together, Wisconsin has received a total amount in transportation money from the feds. Then the feds say, "Oh, sorry, we need some of that money back." In some cases they will say, "Please give us 0.1% of each of those pots of money." In other cases, they just say, "Give us back $30 million, and you can decide where to get that money: road pot, harbors pot, bike/ped pot, transit pot, etc." What often happens is that all that money comes out of the tiny bike/ped projects pot of money, possibly decimating the entire amount of money. What we would like is for all the pots of money to give the same proportion of their funding, as in the first choice above. That way we don't lose all of our bike/ped money, and all modes of transportation have to make a small cut. Robbie Webber Bike Walk Madison Steering Committee www.bikewalkmadison.org Join our group on Facebook! On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:15 PM, William Obermeyer <[email protected] > wrote: > For those of us not fluent in bureacratese, could you translate please. > _______________________________________________ > > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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