Governor Deval Patrick's Budget Recommendation - House 1 Fiscal Year 2010

Governor's Budget Recommendation FY 2010

Highway Fund Balances


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Highway Fund Balances (in millions)
The Highway Fund accounts for highway user taxes including the gas tax and registry fees. The fund is used to finance highway maintenance and safety services, and provide matching funds for federally sponsored highway projects as required. For fiscal year 2010, the Governor recommends restructuring the fund to ensure that all transportation-related revenues are directed to the new fund, and to make sure that all funding for transportation-related expenses (including debt service on bonds issued for transportation purposes) are paid from this fund. This reform would provide the Commonwealth and the public with a more transparent and true accounting of our transportation revenues and expenses and to the extent to which transportation expenses need to be subsidized by non-transportation-related General Fund receipts.
 
FY08 FY09 FY10
Beginning Fund Balances (1,296.6) 16.2 15.6
Taxes 574.0 650.4 650.5
Federal Revenues 0.8 1.3 0.8
Departmental Revenues  
   - Fees 399.8 426.3 484.9
   - Special Assessments 13.6 13.7 13.7
   - Rents 3.4 3.3 3.3
   - Reimbursement for Services 2.0 2.5 2.3
   - Miscellaneous 1.9 0.6 0.6
   - Revenue Collections by Courts 0.3 0.3 0.3
   - Licenses and Permits 0.3 0.3 0.3
   - Sale of Goods 0.2 0.3 0.3
Consolidated Transfers (106.6) (66.9) (74.8)
Total Revenues 889.8 1,032.2 1,082.3
Total Available (406.8) 1,048.4 1,097.9
Debt Service 649.2 767.8 923.0
Independents 5.4 5.6 0.0
Administration & Finance 158.4 5.7 0.0
Energy & Environmental Affairs 0.0 0.0 1.0
Transportation 84.8 158.4 183.9
Public Safety 250.0 253.8 82.6
Total Expenditures 1,147.9 1,191.3 1,190.6
Transfers to Other Funds (1,570.8) (158.5) (108.3)
Ending Fund Balances 16.2 15.6 15.6

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