Meetings

August 24, 2000
Comptroller's Office Hears Transportation Concerns in Laredo

The border region suffers from a lack of state transportation funds to address the overwhelming increase in traffic due to NAFTA, leading to a need for alternative transportation funding methods and funding formulas. This was the consensus at the August 24 Texas Department of Transportation Performance Review hearing in Laredo.

May 9, 2000
Comptroller's Office Hears Transportation Concerns in Arlington
Texas needs to continue its efforts of combining resources for more efficient implementation of transportation projects, according to testimony given in Arlington at the May 9 public hearing of the Texas Department of Transportation Performance Review, which is also a part of Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander's e-Texas initiative.

April 13, 2000
Texas State Comptroller's Office Hears Transportation Concerns in the Rio Grande Valley
More funding directed to the Rio Grande Valley is the primary concern of community leaders according to testimony heard in Brownsville at the Texas Department of Transportation Performance Review, which is also a part of Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander's e-Texas initiative.

March 9, 2000
Texas Comptroller's Office Hears Transportation Concerns in El Paso
The El Paso region suffers from a lack of state transportation funds, as well as a low tax base that would attract matching funds for future transportation needs. This was the consensus at the March 9 Texas Department of Transportation Performance Review hearing in El Paso.

February 17, 2000
Comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander Hears Houston Transportation Concerns
Texas must find ways to make transportation more efficient, more equitable and more effective according to testimony at the Transportation Performance Review hearing in Houston.