The Senate Transportation & Energy Committee advanced SR 26-001, a resolution addressing deteriorating state highway conditions in Morgan County, northeastern Colorado, passing it 6-3 for referral to the full Senate. The hearing featured sharp questioning from Senator Kyle Mullica over why the resolution targets only one county rather than the whole state.
“70% of their roads are going to be either undrivable or 0. Have a level of zero on them, where that is very frustrating for them and very frustrating for that aspect. So one of the things that I talked to him about is I feel that Senate Bill 260 promised us a lot of things that did not fulfill those promises. One of them was rural road maintenance. I”
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Sign in to subscribeThe meeting of Senate Transportation and Energy Committee will now come to order. Ms. Forbes, can you please call the roll? Senators Baseley. Present. Catlin. Here. Exum. Good afternoon. Lynstedt. Present. Malika. Here. Pelton. Present. Sullivan. Here. Ball. Here. And Madam Chair. Present. Okay, thank you. So today we are here to HEAR Senator Pelton's Resolution 001 on Morgan county road improvements. Please, please begin. Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, committee, for your patience. I do appreciate it. I was just presenting another bill in Judiciary and it took me a little bit of time to get through the whole discussion. So thank you so much for listening to me. So this bill, this, this bill resolution came to me via the Morgan County Commissioners. It is probably the number one issue in my district. Morgan county is just one of seven counties in my district, and it is probably the number one issue is the, the road maintenance issues that we have in northeastern Colorado. One of the things that we talk about, and CDOT has already sent us a letter about this and talks about has how much of our heavyweight agriculture, transportation is contributing to…
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