{"id":7062,"date":"2025-02-27T23:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:05:31","slug":"sb-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/sb-274\/","title":{"rendered":"SB 274"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gc.nh.gov\/bill_status\/billinfo.aspx?id=915&amp;inflect=2\">NHRTC Rail Trail Funding \u2013 SB274<\/a><\/span> Heard by Senate Transportation Committee<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sen. Donovan Fenton, <span class=\"s2\">p<\/span>rime sponsor and Senate Transportation Committee member, presented SB274, requesting state funds for Trails Bureau staff, emergency repairs, and non-federal match to his committee on February 11. NHRTC Directors Mike Kowalczyk, Marianne Borowski, and volunteer Boyd Smith gave supporting testimonies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o5_4PfRQFZc\"><span class=\"s1\">view recording of testimony starting at 1:03<\/span><\/a> of the YouTube recording).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Corinne Benfield, Executive Director of Stay-Work-Play also provided supporting testimony, with technical information offered by Craig Rennie (Bureau of Trails) and Shelley Winters (NHDOT). Online support outnumbered opposition by 90 to 7. <b><i>THANK YOU to those that took the time to register your support!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For months we have been told that our preferred budget of $7.2 Mm over 2 years) would likely not be accepted, and this was proven when the Transportation Committed voted to pass an <a href=\"https:\/\/gc.nh.gov\/bill_status\/pdf.aspx?id=9341&amp;q=amendment\"><span class=\"s3\">amended version<\/span><\/a> for<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>$500,000 over 2 years. Our team asked that these very reduced funds apply directly to trail work, so we can make visible progress over upcoming construction seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We have prepared a letter for Gov. Ayotte, who has made outdoor recreation a centerpiece of her administration, to gain support in advance of an anticipated Senate Finance hearing. <b>Once the next hearing is scheduled, we will once again need your vocal support for state rail trail funding. Stand by for our next Legislative Engagement Request. Thank you!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHRTC Rail Trail Funding \u2013 SB274 Heard by Senate Transportation Committee Sen. Donovan Fenton, prime sponsor and Senate Transportation Committee member, presented SB274, requesting state funds for Trails Bureau staff,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-board-update","8":"category-economics-rail-trails","9":"category-legislation"},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7065,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhrtc.org\/nhrtc-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}