JFAC is now debating the transportation budget, which includes no state general funds, relying largely on federal funds and revenues from state gas taxes and vehicle registration fees. Rep. Wendy Jaquet, D-Ketchum, questioned some trims in the budget. Responded Sen. Jim Hammond, R-Post Falls, "We're just trying to be as frugal as we can." The budget plan does include the second year of a five-year project to modernize the IT system at the Department of Motor Vehicles, but that's funded with fee increases approved by lawmakers last year. It also includes funding to license a new maintenance management system that was called for in a state-funded performance audit of the department.

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