Consultancy to help to administer federal highway dollars

WSJ article:

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The main source of the shelters' funding is gasoline-tax revenue raised from Oregon motorists and then distributed as part of an alphabet soup of federal programs supervised by state and local bureaucrats. Grants Pass (named for Ulysses S. Grant's decisive, if distant, victory in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss.) has accumulated millions of Federal Highway Administration dollars to cut down on congestion and air pollution.

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But to spend the money, Grants Pass must navigate a thicket of regulations. For example, because the city isn't certified to administer federal highway dollars, it was compelled to collaborate with Oregon's Department of Transportation. The DOT, citing its own limited staff, handed off some of those responsibilities to a private consultancy.

"That probably added $140,000 to our budget," said Scott Lindberg, the Grants Pass official in charge of grant writing.