CHENANGO COUNTY – Lawmakers made the necessary budgetary adjustments last week in order to accept an estimated $300,000 more in Consolidated Highway Improvement Program funding coming the county’s way from Albany.

The amount is Chenango County’s share of $50 million in CHIPs funding that was restored in the state’s budget last month specifically for Central New York counties and municipalities, and a portion of $82 million that the region received for transportation and infrastructure through the Obama Administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

At a meeting of the Finance Committee on Thursday, Chenango County Public Works Director Randy Gibbon requested the necessary budget line changes in order to transfer the anticipated amount into road widening projects. He said the amount brings CHIPs to 2008 levels.