The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Friday released
searchable spreadsheets offering detailed numbers on what each Ohio county and
municipality would receive through revenue generated by the proposed 18 cent
increase in the motor vehicle fuel tax discussed by ODOT Director Jack
Marchbanks in House Finance Committee testimony Thursday. (See The Hannah Report, 2/21/19.)
Around 40 percent of the funding would be allocated to local
governments, with each county receiving $4.2 million in state fiscal year (SFY)
2020, $4.3 million in SFY21 and SFY22, $4.4 million in SFY23 and $4.5 million
in SFY24. State law requires equal allocation to counties, which would
currently receive $2.4 million in SFY20. The proposed increase would give each
county engineer's office an additional $1.7 million.
Allocation to municipalities would be based on the numbers
of motor vehicles registered in each one, while township fund distribution
would be based on both the number of center-line roadway miles and vehicle
registrations.
Currently, the cities receiving the most funds in SFY20 are
Columbus ($26 million), Cleveland ($9.3 million), Cincinnati and Toledo (both $8.1
million), Akron ($5.3 million), Dayton ($3.9 million), Parma ($2.6 million) and
Canton ($2.2 million), and those amounts would all nearly double under the
proposed increase. Under a constitutional resolution, these funds can only be
used for construction, maintenance and repair of public highways and bridges.
ODOT released two spreadsheets on the data, including one
that lists municipalities alphabetically within their respective counties
available at https://tinyurl.com/y3zua43t,
and one listing all of the state’s municipalities alphabetically available at https://tinyurl.com/y363lvkd.
ODOT also has further information about the proposed
transportation and public safety budget, which is currently awaiting acceptance
as a substitute version of HB62 (Oelslager), at https://beta.transportation.ohio.gov/budget.