SPENCERPORT — Local highway superintendents will join colleagues from around the state in Albany in about a week and a half for Advocacy Day, when they urge the governor and state lawmakers to make roads and bridges a state budget priority.
On Thursday, some of them attended a press conference asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to abandon proposal to cut Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPs) aid by $60 million in the next fiscal year.
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