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Staring down a multimillion-dollar shortfall for months, the Kane County Board recently passed an almost $409 million budget , using about $6 million of its dwindling cash reserves to balance it.

The budget that was ultimately passed, however, includes shrunken allocations for county departments and offices, and shifts in revenue sources.

One of those moves was an almost $7 million cut in funding for transportation in favor of public safety spending, by way of reallocating some of the Regional Transportation Authority sales tax funds the county receives. It was shortly after followed by a hike in the county’s motor fuel tax to replace that lost revenue.

Now, the Kane County Division of Transportation, or KDOT, is determining how it wil

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