Cumberland Times-News Thu Sep 23, 2010, 08:00 AM EDT
— Municipal and county governments are picking up an ally in their quest to have the state restore some of the highway user revenue that has been taken away over the last couple of years.
Organizers of the annual Mountain Maryland PACE reception and legislative breakfast will use the loss of road funding as a major talking point when the event is held in Annapolis this coming January.
As the state has coped with budget shortfalls, cuts to local government funding have been common. Among the hardest hit funding sector has been highway funding.
David Moe, PACE committee co-chairman, said the No. 1 priority for elected officials and business professionals in Western Maryland should be to convince lawmakers to restore highway user revenue funds. “The cut in highway user funds has been devastating for all municipalities,” Moe said. “It just cannot continue.”
For 35 years, a PACE reception (the acronym stands for Positive Attitudes Change Everything) has been held in Maryland’s capital to draw attention to the far western part of the state and to generate ideas on how to help improve economic development and quality of life here.
The 2011 reception will be held Jan. 27 and 28 and again will be a combined effort of Allegany and Garrett county leaders. The event is sponsored by the Cumberland-Allegany County Industrial Foundation and the Garrett County Development Corp.
PACE features a number of exhibits by local businesses and organizations and is attended by numerous many General Assembly members, aides, state government officials and lobbyists each year. “The idea is to get state government to remember Western Maryland doesn’t end at Frederick,” Moe commented.
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Feb. 11, 2010
by Don Sincell
While local residents are accustomed to coping with severe winter weather conditions, the two recent storms that have pushed the county’s total snowfall for the winter of 2009-10 to over 180 inches could not have come at a worse time, particularly for Garrett County’s eight incorporated municipalities.
Attempting to remove nearly two feet of snow from municipal roadways is expensive under the best of circumstances, and even more so when storms strike on weekends, which generally necessitates overtime for town crews. That hardship became much worse this winter because of recent major cuts in state aid to the towns.
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