Prattville Reports Rebuild Alabama Gas Tax Spending, Old Ridge Delayed

Prattville officials presented the city’s required annual Rebuild Alabama report in early January, detailing fiscal year 2025 activity for the state gas tax fund. Receipts for the period totaled $311,346.02 while the city paid $542,303.11 from the fund, with the bulk of those expenditures going to the FY 2025 Local Paving project. The difference between receipts and outlays for the year was $230,957.09.

The submission fulfills the requirement in Section 23-8-8(e), Code of Alabama 1975, as amended, that municipalities provide a written report to their city council at the first meeting in January outlining the previous fiscal year’s Rebuild Alabama Gas Tax Fund expenditures. Finance Director Daniel Oakley provided the report to the council at the start of the year.

The city’s FY 2025 Transportation Plan, adopted by the council on August 20, 2024, had listed resurfacing of Old Ridge Road from Calumet Parkway to the corporate limits among priority projects. That resurfacing was not completed during FY 2025, and the Rebuild Alabama funds originally slated for Old Ridge were reallocated to the broader local paving program to address immediate maintenance needs elsewhere in the city. The Old Ridge Road project has been re-budgeted for FY 2026 and will be funded with Development Reserves rather than with this year’s gas tax receipts.

For Prattville and Autauga County residents, the report clarifies why Old Ridge Road did not receive resurfacing last fiscal year and how municipal leaders are balancing competing pavement needs with constrained revenues. Reallocating gas tax receipts to the local paving program allowed work already underway or contractually obligated to continue, while the delay shifts Old Ridge’s cost onto reserve funds to preserve the city’s compliance with its transportation plan priorities.

Municipal budgeting choices like these reflect familiar trade-offs for local governments across the state and nation: matching limited dedicated revenues to urgent roadway needs, while holding other projects in reserve until alternative funding is available. Residents seeking specifics on timing, staging, or the planned FY 2026 schedule for Old Ridge should contact the City of Prattville for project updates and council meeting agendas where implementation details and timelines will be addressed.