Issue Position: Transportation

Issue Position

I am not a fan of the formula used to fund the most recent transportation package and would have fought to increase funding for transportation through other means. While on the Chesapeake School Board, administration evaluated several programs each year to determine whether they remained effective and were being run efficiently. The same process on the State level should yield savings. The cost of doing business could have been reduced and increased revenue could have been realized through streamlining the regulatory process. For example, the cost of improving Dominion Boulevard has gone from 1 million dollars to build one lane, one mile, to 5 million dollars. Government must accomplish goals better and faster. Tax reform could have also increased revenues by evaluating the propriety of long standing exemptions which may be antiquated. In short, while I may not agree with the way the transportation package was funded, I would not undo it and agree the completion of the projects that will be funded with the legislation are absolutely critical and necessary to our region's economic prosperity.

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