The state Department of Transportation opened its sack of grants and awarded $78.75 million for road-improvement projects in 438 municipalities, including 41 grants to towns in Monmouth County and 33 in Ocean County.
The cash is from the DOT's annual municipal aid grants, which town officials apply for to finance projects from street reconstruction to paving to installing new traffic signals.
The state grants, announced Thursday, spare local taxpayers from the cost of financing the work, said Kris Kolluri, transportation commissioner.
Municipal officials apply for the grants for specific projects, or in the case of Rumson, several street projects, for which it received $130,000.
For 2007, the DOT received 835 grant requests, which total $237 million.
It funded a total of 440 of those applications.
Ocean County Observer
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