Question 2: Transportation

Issue $67.6 million in bonds to fund transportation projects

Shall the County of Spotsylvania, Virginia (the "County") contract a debt and issue its General Obligation Public Improvement Bonds in the maximum amount of Sixty-Seven Million Six Hundred Twenty-Seven Thousand Dollars ($67,627,000) to provide funds, together with other available funds, to undertake a program of Capital Improvement Projects for transportation purposes, including without limitation (except as specifically provided below) (1) intersection improvements at Route 208 and Smith Station Road to alleviate traffic and improve safety; (2) extension and improvements to Germanna Point Drive to provide an alternate travel route for traffic; (3) widening of portions of Route 2 and Route 17 to four lanes; (4) widening of a portion of Harrison Road to include a shared-use path and a pedestrian sidewalk; (5) acquisition, design and construction of a roundabout at the intersection of Old Plank Road and Andora Drive; (6) a minimum of $10,018,213 of Bonds to be allocated to the acquisition, design and construction of improvements to the County's rural roads, including intersection improvements and construction of shoulders to rural roads; and (7) funding of the County's share of other pedestrian, bicycle and shared-use paths and "Safe Routes to School" sidewalk projects so that the County may receive matching funds under the Federal aid highway program known as the Transportation Alternatives Program, or any substantially similar or replacement federal or state highway financing program?