SAINT PAUL, Minn. — The joint House/Senate Conference Committee tasked with developing a compromise state transportation budget will meet for the first time Monday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in room 200 of the State Office Building. The committee meeting, to be chaired by Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL – Minneapolis), will include an overview of each chamber’s transportation budget and a review of the funding differences. Minnesota Department of Transportation Commissioner Margaret Anderson Kelliher and several others will provide testimony to the committee on the state’s road and bridge needs.
WHAT: First meeting of the House/Senate Conference Committee on the Transportation Budget, HF 1555
WHO: Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL – Minneapolis), committee members
WHERE: Room 200, State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul
WHEN: 2:00 p.m., Monday, May 6
The House DFL Transportation budget makes honest and responsible investments to fix Minnesota’s roads, bridges, and transit through five cent gas tax increase per year for four years.