Jergeson presses transportation commission to increase transparency

The Montana Transportation Commission agreed Thursday at its meeting in Havre to release additional information about highway projects after Commissoner Greg Jergeson of Chinook raised concerns about transparency of estimated budgets for Montana Department of Transportation projects.

Montana Department of Transportation Director Mike Tooley acknowledged that at a Montana Transportation Commission meeting earlier this year Jergeson raised questions on the transparency for the budgets that were available to the public, the numbers available online being rounded to the 100,000th or even the neare...