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State-By-State Stimulus

Pilgrim

Pilgrim

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
Check out these links to see how many goodies your state will receive:

Find projects by state or territory

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state
 
chefdennis

chefdennis

Veteran Expediter
Hmmmm, New Hampshire isn't on that list...........:D Wonder if they did that because of the bill they are working on to tell the Fed to Stuff their rules that infringe on states laws???

Or did someone just miss NH's project?
 
moose

moose

Veteran Expediter
voted on many ( o.k , some...) projects on my state .

funny , look on the votes in DC ...

and WV ...



Moose.
Minnesota.
 
Turtle

Turtle

Administrator
Staff member
Retired Expediter
None of the items listed are part of the Stimulus Bill. They are all merely "shovel ready" projects in various cities that would become candidates for federal grant money when the Bill becomes law. They are all projects that have been submitted by the various mayors to be considered for a piece of the Stimulus Pie, and comes from the list that was published from the US Conference of Mayors that was held last month.

New Hampshire had nothing on the list because of the way the state handles state and federal expenditures. Basically, no state money can be expended, even if funded by federal funds, without permission from the voters, usually after the annual town meetings have taken place and a special election takes place. Emergency town meetings can be called to deal with emergency expenditures, but even those require approval from the State Supreme Court, which is time consuming and costly.

Last week, state Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, received permission from the Senate Rules Committee to file a late bill that would streamlining the special Town Meeting process to accept and spend the federal funds. She is working with the governor's economic stimulus office and the attorney general's office in coordinating the effort, and hopes to have a final bill drafted by the end of the week.


"The legislation would give towns permission to call special town meetings to deal with the economic stimulus package on relatively short notice - as drafted now, seven days - without notification from Superior Court," Hassan said. "It's trying to say with this bill, this one-time only, a town could notice a special Town Meeting with seven days notice, and could have a Town Meeting and vote in the same day."

So, no, the reason New Hampshire is not on the list isn't nearly as gung ho nitty gritty as you would have hoped. It's pure procedural politics.
 
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