Transportation Funding Task Force to meet April 21 in Grand Rapids

Contact: Bill Shreck, MDOT Director of Communications, 517-335-3084

Agency: Transportation

WHAT: The Transportation Funding Task Force, a bi-partisan panel appointed by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and approved by the Seante, will hold its next meeting in Grand Rapids.

WHO: Transportation Funding Task Force members
Citizens Advisory Committee members
MDOT staff members 
General public

WHEN: Monday, April 21
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: The Rapid Central Station
Second floor conference room
250 Grandville Ave. SW
Grand Rapids

BACKGROUND: The 13-member task force will review the adequacy of surface transportation, aeronautics service provision, and finance in Michigan, including strategies to ensure that Michigan receives a greater financial return on transportation investments. It also will evaluate the potential of alternate strategies to replace or supplement state motor fuel taxes, existing and alternative user fees, and non-user revenues to support economic activity and personal mobility in Michigan. The task force will hold monthly meetings across the state and will publish its preliminary findings by Oct. 31, 2008.

More information about the Transportation Funding Task Force is available online at www.michigan.gov/tf2.

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