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Re: Pretty sure it’s 100 percent . . .
D. Spires — (archived)

<[What % of your gasoline tax is paid back in road funding, for example?]

Street maintenance, such as pothole filling, street cleaning, pavement repair, street lighting & snow plowing, is funded by annual allocations of a Road Use Tax Fund (RUTF), which is received by a community/township/city from the state. This revenue is collected by the state through such sources as a motor vehicle gasoline tax, motor vehicle registration and title fees, motor vehicle use taxes, and “other revenues.” This money is then distributed back to the local government in accordance with a state legislature-determined formula (whatever the state decides that will be), but, as a general rule, neither miles of pavement, nor the condition of that pavement, have any bearing whatsoever on the amount of RUTF a city might receive. Usually, the level of maintenance funding a community receives is determined by population, not the level of use, or need -- though High Street in front of the capital building in downtown Columbus, Ohio, seems to get a nightly scrubbing for some reason (spent some time as night security at Huntington Center across the street for about a year)...

Dan
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The State Lawn, with Huntington Tower centered on the Capital Building, and on the east side of High Street.

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