Area highway project on hold as ArDOT seeks $121M in reimbursements
A project in North Central Arkansas is among five the Arkansas Department of Transportation has identified to be used to reimburse its Amendment 91 account a total of over $121 million the state Supreme Court says the agency illegally spent on two other projects. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chip Welch has given the department 60 days to reimburse the account. The department already has reimbursed the account over $62 million, according to documents submitted in a case before Welch. The list of five identified projects includes widening a section of U.S. ...