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Idaho Transportation
Department

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P.O. Box 7129
Boise, ID 83707
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1-20-06
Board selects WGI/CH2MHILL to manage GARVEE projects
The Idaho Transportation Board today confirmed its selection of Washington Group International/CH2M Hill to manage the largest highway improvement initiative in state history - the $1.2 billion Connecting Idaho program. At its Jan. 6 meeting, the board scored Washington Group/CH2M Hill the highest following presentations describing how firms would oversee the program.
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Forum on Transportation Investment

Report to transportation board

Recommendations by a citizen's forum that focused on how to finance Idaho's growing transportation needs were accepted by the Idaho Transportation Board this week at its meeting in Boise. The Forum on Transportation Investment examined Idaho's growing transportation needs and available options for financing and funding Idaho's transportation system during eight meetings spanning 17 months.
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FTI recommendations

The 14 recommendations the Forum derived from the conclusions covered a range of policy and funding options. Those recommendations are included under three general categories.
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Board receives report on BSU research
The Social Science Research Center at Boise State University annually conducts a large-scale survey of Idahoans to identify public policy concerns. James Weatherby summarized those findings on Jan. 17 for members of the Idaho Transportation Board during their monthly meeting in Boise.
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ITD crews repair U.S. 2, reopen key route
Record rainfall and saturated soil led to unsafe driving conditions and prompted ITD to close U.S. 2 near the west city limits of Sandpoint. The indefinite closure severed the primary route between Sandpoint and Spokane. ITD crews in district 1 worked quickly to replace the culverts and reopened the highway to traffic Wednesday morning (Jan. 18).
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Clearing the way for safe winter travel
Connie Marshall drives truck for a living. At least in the winter. She takes the helm of an yellow ITD snowplow truck when weather turns nasty and begins piling up in white layers on Idaho’s highways. Working out of District 3, Marshall will become a recognizable spokesperson for snowplow safety as the transportation department begins running radio and television commercials throughout Idaho.
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ITD schedules legislative presentations next week
ITD Director Dave Ekern and department administrators will meet with legislators this month and in early February to discuss accomplishments of the past year and outline funding priorities for Fiscal Year 2007. They will give a joint presentation to the House and Senate transportation committees at the Capitol on Thursday (Jan. 26).
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Electronic W2 forms available
State employees who want to get an early start on income tax preparation do not have to wait until late January when W-2 forms that report annual earnings and withholdings traditionally are mailed. Electronic W-2 forms will be available on the State Controller’s Office Web site, effective Jan. 13, about a week before the mailing was scheduled to begin.
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Controller's Office to begin mailing W2 forms
The 2005 W-2 forms were delivered to the Statehouse Mail Room (Thursday) Jan. 19. They will be processed through the mailroom and should start going out soon. We anticipate that employees should begin receiving their paper W-2 forms sometime next wee (Jan. 23-27).
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