Nevada County Supervisors want to help close the funding gap for the Bridgeport Covered Bridge Project. They’ve approved a letter of support that will send Supervisor Hank Weston to the State Capitol. Weston says he’s meeting with staff of the Assembly budget subcommittee…

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Weston says if the request for 2-point-6 million dollars can be included in the new state budget, that could speed up the construction timeline to start rehabbing the bridge by a year, or from 2018 to 2017…

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Weston says the project had been fully funded for the original estimated pricetag of 1-point-3 million dollars. But he says costs ballooned, when it was learned that the entire bridge would have to be raised another foot, to strengthen stability from flooding, and to provide more money for contingencies.